What is the slave patern for 500 gig hard drive

No it won't BUT the BIOS may not support a 500 Gb hard disk, it will see it as a smaller capacity hard drive.

from what I can tell, this is a sata hdd, sata requires no master/slave settings, just plug it in and boot your machine. It should show up straight away, if it doesn't then right click on my computer and select manage, in the next window that appears select disk management. From there you should be able to see your hdd in the lower of the two panes, check to see if it has been assigned a drive letter, if not then right click on the drive and select change drive letter or path. You will then get another box, click change or add and select a letter from the drop down box, ok everything and check in "My Computer" your drive should show now

Check your jumper settings on the drive. Make sure you 80 gig hard is slave if you want your 500 as master.

just need to set the jumper so this will work as the slave

i think you have to connect the slave HDD on a separated cables (data & Power) and also check your power supply abilities for handling all you devices (HDD's and others)

hi pete,

changing the bios will do the trick, find one that is most compatible with aspire 1640 for a 500gig hd, once you have this replaced, it will work.

for more laptop troubleshooting tispd, you may also check the link below.

http://www.laptoprepair101.com/

hope this helps.

regards,

voodoo

The Motherboard will be able to handle it and XP will read the hardrive i have used a 500 gig hard drive in my old computer before it should work just fine

Your computer must have a firewire connection.

Hi

Is it showing the 300gig in the properties? if yes then try to copy with command mode,If again its given problem then u need to backup your data and format the drive, then try copying.I think it will work.

T.Boopathy

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