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Dell Latitude won't let me install hard drive?

My latitude 640's hard drive crapped out/died, I bought a new one from eBay (I made sure it was a compatible drive for the computer) and when I tried to install it, upon boot-up it told me the hard drive bay was empty. I downloaded a few different hard drive locator software programs but even though they can see the hard drive, when I go through the BIOS it says the bay is empty. Its a new HD so I doubt that its dead, but I'm stumped!

Mark Leathers
May 2007
DellDell 640Computers, Notebooks/Laptop PCsLaptop Hard Drive Bios
Mark,
Is the drive spinning when you power the laptop?
Check the jumpers on the drive. Some laptops need the jumper to be set to "cable select", others need it to be "master".
Other than that, there's not a lot more you can try.
Good luck,
Raf

dupalopez
June 2007
http://search.euro.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=uk&l=en&cs=&k=lattitude+hard+drive+replace&cat=sup&x=6&y=9

you should find the answer there somewhere.

Pete
May 2007

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Dell Latitude 640: Hard Drive Install Issue