Laptop Harddrive

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

I got an old IBM laptop 760L which I bought of e-bay without a hard drive, which I bought and a caddy case. I installed the hard drive and it did not recognised the hard drive. I wondering if the caddy case is supposed to have a jumper settings on it

 

Oh man! Ad-blocking software has been detected! :'(

This website is run by the community, for the community... and it needs advertisements in order to keep running. Blocking our ads means your killing our stats!
Please disable your ad-block, or become a premium member to hide all advertisements and this notice.

What do you mean by caddy case?

Is this a USB external hard drive?

If so, you probably need an operating system that supports USB devices or a BIOS that supports booting from USB. Since you don't have a HDD, you have no operating system and your only hope is that the BIOS can boot from USB.

Or I am missing something

 

When i bought the hard drive there was no way of connecting the hard drive as the connector was sitting the same way as on a PC, so I goggled around the web and saw that I needed a caddy-case as that what was recommended, but as it turned out all I needed was the connector as I have now got the laptop to see the hard drive

 

I dont think that your 760L bios is gonna support booting from external USB hard disk.

 

I suspect the caddy-case in this instance is the semi-open surround piece of plastic found on some IBMs that clips to the drive and usualy converts the pins to another plug format.

Harry.

 

Ah so, thank you glasshopper

 

Harry, you hit it right on the head caddy case was the only thing I could think of calling it.