Edna Sloan wrote:
> A friend has a Compaq 48625SX all-in-one model(Presario Net/25S) that came
> with a 100MB IDE hard drive.
> She wants to replace the drive with a 540MB, but cannot get the system to
> take it. When she tries to boot up, after installing and manually changing
> the bios for the 540, she gets a "controller failure" error message.
I have done this recently ghosting drives at work. The problem was I didn't
reconnect the power cable on the drive when I put it back in. When all else
fails, go back to the basics.
Robert Kilroy
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