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hi,
did your drive come with a cd of utilities ?disc wizard is probably in the box your drive came in . terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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Thanks for all the great info! WOW - a real wealth of knowledge here!
Here is what has happened since I sent the message you replied to: I managed to get the Seagate Disk Wizard diskette version. ( Some files that are needed for downloading quit working Friday. I guess the disk corruption got worse. But I could not download files - a friend downloaded it and sent the download to me over Yahoo file transfer.) The Wizard is slick! I set up the new drive (which was still installed as a second drive) to be sized like drive C and D on the factory drive; and put the rest of the new disk space into another logical drive. But then the program started copying all the files from the old drive to the new drive. I did not expect that. (Instructions? Who needs to read instructions? LOL) I let that carry on while I went to work. Everything was replicated on the new drive - both good and corrupt files. So I now have the new disk as Disk 0 and the same file problems. After I send this I will try to run QR again. All I have to lose is time. I guess if that does not work I will have to bite the bullet and reload Windows from a Windows CD and take the loss of the few programs that came on the Compaq that I actually used still. Thanks to all! Steve "dadiOH" wrote in message ... Steve wrote: I had checked on this group and was told that the Quick Restore CDs that came with the computer could be used to set everything back up. That does not seem to be true. The QR discs give me an error as the look for Drive "N" and the set up aborts. From what I can see the Autoexec file on the CD sets a path of "N:\CPQS\QR". It then tries to read files out of that directory, but since the new drive has none of that on it - I am stuck. I would guess that it is making a RAM drive and copying the stuff to it as Windows does. How full is your C: drive? _______________________ I put the old drive back in and made the new drive the second disc drive. That is the only way I could ask for help here. I called Compaq Support and after a series of misunderstandings was told that I needed to purchase the hard drive from Compaq and they would send the QR discs made for the larger drive. They lie between their teeth. ______________________ I am thinking that MAYBE the QR discs are looking for the same size of C and D drives (24.5 GB C drive and a 3.36 GB drive D), the QR discs will work. I could put the rest of the new drive into a drive E. But that is only my theory and so far I have not been right too often about this. LOL My father in law has a Compaq (may their tribe decrease - both FIL and Compaq) and he went from a 10 MB HD to a 40 MB no problem. Perhaps I shouldn't say "no problem" because I fiddled with it and quit in frustration. The frustration was the D:/ drive that it wants and I got tired messing with something that should have been straight forward but wasn't thanks to Compaq. He had the store where he bought it install it. Can you... 1. Make your new drive your #2 2. Fdisk & format it being sure to make it bootable 3. Copy C: to it. Doesn't need "cloning", just plain old copy. 4. Make new disk primary (C 5. Use the QR disc on it The kicker is the D: drive that Compaq insists on having. I would assume you have to make a partition on the new drive equivalent to it and copy D: to that partition (as well as C: to the new primary partition). It is also possible that D: *does* need to be cloned rather than copied but I kinda doubt it. -- dadiOH _____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.0... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico ____________________________ |
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hi,
you could try running scandisk on your original drive . run the qr disks and then copy to your new drive with the discwizard . hope this helps, terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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Thanks for the reply, but the case grows stranger yet. I was doing
what you suggested, but had the old drive also installed - using the cable connector as "Drive 1". So, the new drive was connected as "Drive 0" and the old drive was connected as "Drive 1". When I reboot, the computer displays a new configuration message and ignores the new drive - all it "sees" is the old drive. I also got a "Disk Controller Failure" message on the old drive. After that, all that can be read on the drive is the DOS level entries - and only part of that information. It is reading what was formerly on "Drive C" but none of "Drive D" (the Compaq "Restore" logical drive). When I disconnect the cable to the old drive, all is ok with the new drive. I had put the old drive into the bay where I had an internal Zip Drive. When I tried putting the Zip Drive back in (connected as Drive 1) the system tried to boot from that! Is something connected wrong? Did I not put the cables back on to the mother board as they should be? With the only drive being the new drive, and connected to the cable connector as "Drive 0" all is ok. What am I missing?? Thanks for everyone's help! Steve "David" wrote in message nk.net... The Quick Restore shouldn't have a problem with your new HD. Remove the old drive and be sure the new HD is jumpered for cable select and you use the connector on the end of the IDE ribbon cable. You're booting the computer with the QR CD right? You don't need to prep the new drive at all. The QR will wipe out anything that's on it. "Steve" wrote in message .. . A week or so ago my Presario Model 7478's hard drive began to fail. I had gotten a message that the disc detected that failure was imminent, and I bought a new hard drive. The new drive is a Seagate 80gb drive, whereas the factory installed drive was a 30gb Maxtor. I had checked on this group and was told that the Quick Restore CDs that came with the computer could be used to set everything back up. That does not seem to be true. The QR discs give me an error as the look for Drive "N" and the set up aborts. From what I can see the Autoexec file on the CD sets a path of "N:\CPQS\QR". It then tries to read files out of that directory, but since the new drive has none of that on it - I am stuck. I put the old drive back in and made the new drive the second disc drive. That is the only way I could ask for help here. I called Compaq Support and after a series of misunderstandings was told that I needed to purchase the hard drive from Compaq and they would send the QR discs made for the larger drive. I don't have Windows 98 on a separate CD and sure don't have the other software on the QR discs. My first problem was that the QR would not load and format the drive, like I hoped it would, so I used FDISK and FORMAT to do that. I am thinking that MAYBE the QR discs are looking for the same size of C and D drives (24.5 GB C drive and a 3.36 GB drive D), the QR discs will work. I could put the rest of the new drive into a drive E. But that is only my theory and so far I have not been right too often about this. LOL I would appreciate any help with getting the QR discs to work on a new drive that is larger than the factory installed drive. Thanks! Steve |
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So with the old HD and zip drive disconnected were you able to boot from the
QR CD and run the quick restore? Are you using the original IDE ribbon cable that came with the computer and if so, are sure you jumpered your new HD for cable select (CS)? Most likely it came jumpered as master. The IDE ribbon cables should all be installed with the red stripe towards pin 1 on the motherboard and the drives. For maximum compatability, you should probably also run the ATA mode switching utility from Seagate to limit your new HD to the maximum mode supported by your computer. I think ATA/33 on the 7478. "Steve Byers" wrote in message m... Thanks for the reply, but the case grows stranger yet. I was doing what you suggested, but had the old drive also installed - using the cable connector as "Drive 1". So, the new drive was connected as "Drive 0" and the old drive was connected as "Drive 1". When I reboot, the computer displays a new configuration message and ignores the new drive - all it "sees" is the old drive. I also got a "Disk Controller Failure" message on the old drive. After that, all that can be read on the drive is the DOS level entries - and only part of that information. It is reading what was formerly on "Drive C" but none of "Drive D" (the Compaq "Restore" logical drive). When I disconnect the cable to the old drive, all is ok with the new drive. I had put the old drive into the bay where I had an internal Zip Drive. When I tried putting the Zip Drive back in (connected as Drive 1) the system tried to boot from that! Is something connected wrong? Did I not put the cables back on to the mother board as they should be? With the only drive being the new drive, and connected to the cable connector as "Drive 0" all is ok. What am I missing?? Thanks for everyone's help! Steve "David" wrote in message nk.net... The Quick Restore shouldn't have a problem with your new HD. Remove the old drive and be sure the new HD is jumpered for cable select and you use the connector on the end of the IDE ribbon cable. You're booting the computer with the QR CD right? You don't need to prep the new drive at all. The QR will wipe out anything that's on it. "Steve" wrote in message .. . A week or so ago my Presario Model 7478's hard drive began to fail. I had gotten a message that the disc detected that failure was imminent, and I bought a new hard drive. The new drive is a Seagate 80gb drive, whereas the factory installed drive was a 30gb Maxtor. I had checked on this group and was told that the Quick Restore CDs that came with the computer could be used to set everything back up. That does not seem to be true. The QR discs give me an error as the look for Drive "N" and the set up aborts. From what I can see the Autoexec file on the CD sets a path of "N:\CPQS\QR". It then tries to read files out of that directory, but since the new drive has none of that on it - I am stuck. I put the old drive back in and made the new drive the second disc drive. That is the only way I could ask for help here. I called Compaq Support and after a series of misunderstandings was told that I needed to purchase the hard drive from Compaq and they would send the QR discs made for the larger drive. I don't have Windows 98 on a separate CD and sure don't have the other software on the QR discs. My first problem was that the QR would not load and format the drive, like I hoped it would, so I used FDISK and FORMAT to do that. I am thinking that MAYBE the QR discs are looking for the same size of C and D drives (24.5 GB C drive and a 3.36 GB drive D), the QR discs will work. I could put the rest of the new drive into a drive E. But that is only my theory and so far I have not been right too often about this. LOL I would appreciate any help with getting the QR discs to work on a new drive that is larger than the factory installed drive. Thanks! Steve |
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Steve,go to
http://www.ts-consulting.net/ they have info on using the qr disks . hope this helps, terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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hi,
for more info on QR on a replacement hard drive go to http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/compaq/faq/hardware.htm#hdd the softpaqs mentioned are available at ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/softpaq hope this helps, terry ============== Posted through www.HowToFixComputers.com/bb - free access to hardware troubleshooting newsgroups. |
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