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HDD recognition
So somehow I got in a mess here but I just want to give it a last try before I end it.
I have this old laptop which is not mine. A Sony Vaio VGN-FS810.
It supports IDE (ATA) drives. It originally came with a 80GB disk which kind of died.
So I bought two other discs. A 120 GB Samsung, and a 320 Western Digital.
The Samsung works fine.
The WD is not even detected by the bios. I'm 99,999999999999% I'm connecting it the right way, especially because I got other drives to be recognized.
I used a dust cleaner just because. No change.
Could it be that the disk is dead?
Could it be that this old laptop doesn't recognize "big" drives?
I know there's a BIOS update available for this computer, but according to Sony website it only addresses issues with external monitors. And I couldn't find info for this update (Phoenix R0094J1) somewhere else.
So, is there anything I can do?
Or should I just give back the drive and get the money back? I'm still on time to do that.
Unfortunately, I don't have any other ATA/IDE laptop I could try this on.
All the laptops I have access to are SATA.