speedcrazy1532
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Hey Everyone.
I recently lost the motherboard on my daily use computer at my house, it was an HP a600n if i recall. I run a seperate computer in my room to watch movie and as an external drive for important stuff. This computer, the one in my room, is quite old. It's a Gateway "450" from about 1999 - 2000. I know it has 256mb RAM and It runs windows XP. I may have more detailed info @ my house and will post later.
Now, I'm trying to install the Hard drive from my recently deceased HP into the Gateway. The Hard Drive is a SATA Western Digital Caviar 80GB and came factory in the HP. I connect everything up(as slave), start the computer, and the drive never shows up in My Computer. My main obvjective is to hopefully recover the files off of the Caviar using the Gateway. If thats not possible, i would like to at least use the Caviar as a storage device in the future.
What am i missing? Add new Hardware does not work. I tried messing with the jumper on the back of the drive and had no results there either. Do i need drivers of some sort, or is it simply not compatible? Sorry for writing the book here but any help is appreciated.
Lastly, I tried removing the Gateway drive and installing the WD drive in it's place, hoping that it would just run the OS and everything that was on the HP. No go. The computer just says " No operating system found" and you can enter prompts I believe.
I recently lost the motherboard on my daily use computer at my house, it was an HP a600n if i recall. I run a seperate computer in my room to watch movie and as an external drive for important stuff. This computer, the one in my room, is quite old. It's a Gateway "450" from about 1999 - 2000. I know it has 256mb RAM and It runs windows XP. I may have more detailed info @ my house and will post later.
Now, I'm trying to install the Hard drive from my recently deceased HP into the Gateway. The Hard Drive is a SATA Western Digital Caviar 80GB and came factory in the HP. I connect everything up(as slave), start the computer, and the drive never shows up in My Computer. My main obvjective is to hopefully recover the files off of the Caviar using the Gateway. If thats not possible, i would like to at least use the Caviar as a storage device in the future.
What am i missing? Add new Hardware does not work. I tried messing with the jumper on the back of the drive and had no results there either. Do i need drivers of some sort, or is it simply not compatible? Sorry for writing the book here but any help is appreciated.
Lastly, I tried removing the Gateway drive and installing the WD drive in it's place, hoping that it would just run the OS and everything that was on the HP. No go. The computer just says " No operating system found" and you can enter prompts I believe.