The same driver for all three drive types is R237954.exe Kept researching for more info on this, and found that the available hard drive drivers under the driver downloads section from Dell for the Latitude D420 include drivers for 40G, 60G, and 80G To verify that the laptop can handle other drive types like the one you are attempting to use, you might want to email Dell support possibly. Since they actually lists specific hard drive sizes on the spec sheet, I'm inclined to wonder if the laptops BIOS on has settings for these three drive types as the only possible replacements types? What is interesting though is that the Dell spec sheet for that model 1.8" hdd lists the available hard drive type that come with that model laptop as capacities of 30, 60, 80GB The original is 30G and the replacement is 40G. It looks to me like the new hard drive I got is just plain incompatible but is there some kind of BIOS setting that could possibly cause this early hanging problem?īoth 1.8" form factor hard drives are of the same type although different capacities and manufacturers. Both of these drives work well on my desktop when connected to my ZIF-40 to USB enclosure/adapter.ĭell diagnostics doesn't find any problems when I run it with the new hard drive installed. The replacement drive I'm attempting to use is a Samsung HS040HB. The original hard drive is a Toshiba MK3008GAL (HDD1642). I even tried fixmbr and fixboot on it and it still hangs. However, the machine still hangs immediately after post. The image copies without a problem and all the files are readable on my desktop. I've also tried using Acronis TrueImage to copy an image of the original hard drive to the new hard drive. It copies files to the new drive with no problem but then reboots and hangs. I've tried reinstalling Windows on the new hard drive.
The machine still boots up to the old (original) hard drive although that hard drive is failing and produces errors in the event viewer and performance issues.
The new hard drive does show up in the BIOS and displays the correct size. This behavior started after installing a new hard drive. It hangs long before Windows even begins to load. I've got a Dell Latitude D420 laptop that hangs immediately after post with a blank screen and a blinking cursor in the upper left hand corner.
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