Thanks for replying John. It is a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop.

Thanks

When you replaced the drive, did you remove the edge connector from the pins on the old drive, and install it onto the new one?

Message Edited by johnallg on 10-05-2004 09:51 PM

Yes John. As a matter of fact, those were instuctions I found to do it.

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Thanks Ed. I didn't know they share the IDE. I'm at work now, so I'll give it a try tonight.

If the HDD IS seen after I take out the CD Rom, would that indicate that the CD Rom is bad?

Thanks for your help.

Stubby,

You might want to check my thread below entitled "Hard-Drive or Motherboard - a variation...."  We could both be in for bigger problems.  I hope it works out for you though.