From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sun Jun 27 1999 - 13:37:43 EDT
Mark..
1. i hope you did not pay too much..
2. its most likely the addressing on the brand-x drive..
3. Run "FDISK" from a DOS boot diskette to see if the drive is set up..
just check, don;t start anything..
4. if you had purchased a drive from me, it would have been set up to work
first time.. (i just must mention that, sorry<g>)
5. if you're trying to reuse the original HDD shell from the 755, the brand-x
drive won't work in it without some surgery.. easiest is to throw brand-x out
and buy a good IBM drive.. :-), next is to cut the pins that are set off by
themselves off (but that voids any possibility of a warranty and the like),
lastly is to cut the traces on the cable/plug assembly which will have the net
effect of isolating those four pins which are seperated from the rest of the 44
IDE pins..
(NOTE: this is what i would recommend for an IBM drive, the brand-x drive is an
unknown quantity, so proceed at your own risk)
the WD disk needs ot be cleaned off, then start from a know place..
yes, you can try DOS 6.2 or whatever is available, but a better method is
delete the partition table and start fresh...
(i have a very dangerous utility i keep on a floppy that will do this)
don't know why you can't get into ezsetup, try removing the drive and try
again..
unless you saved at least $100 from my exorbitant prices, you're loosing $$ by
wasting precious time..
remember, all newer IDE drives are the same (or should be) and everything
changed a year or so after the 755CX was put out to pasture by IBM..
want more help, call me... i'll TRY to get things set up for you..
Mark Gardiner wrote:
> I am going through the painful process of upgrading my HDD on my TPad 755CX
>
> I have acquired both a WD 540Mb (for extra B/up) and a Hitachi 2.1Gb HDD to
> replace the standard 810Mb HDD.
>
> The 540Mb will whirr up but needs formatting (more later) but the 2.1Gb
> returns BIOS error codes 174 and if pressed to coninue, 301
>
> 00301
> 00174
>
> The chap I bought the 2.1Gb from said he had formatted it and left the W95
> CABs on it (at my request) to aid setup...
>
> I have tried to access the BIOS from startup (F1 on power) but cannot get
> into it. I have tried placing a W95 created start disk in the floppy but
> this will not help either...? Anyone know what the problem is??
>
> Also, attempting to format the 540Mb from a W95 created emergency startup
> disk... returns 'Incorrect DOS version'
>
> Does this mean I have to set it up from a DOS 6.22 disk??
>
> Also, while we are at it, what commands to format a new HDD??
>
> Any further advice much appreciated...
>
> Thanks
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