Is this new drive the master now or is it the slave? Did you use the compaq
quick restore CD or are you installing a clean OS?

Your unit probably has SW warranty support still. Call 1-800-OKCOMPAQ and ask
them the hard d rive specs for your unit. I think the largest drive it'll
support is 1.2G.

You can also try this patch if you think it applies
http://www.compaq.com/athome/support/softpaq/pages/sp2824.html

HTH

Jose

Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote:

> I was replacing the hard drive on a Compaq Presario 7222 and everything
> looked like it would work.   The new drive is a Western Digital Caviar
> 24300, 4.3 GB EIDE.  After one reboot, I got an error:  1782-Drive
> Controller Failure.  The error continues to come up.  The only thing
> different on the computer was the new drive.  Anybody know what may be
> causing this?  I looked through Compaq's support site but it was anything
> but helpful.

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