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did my new hard drive corruppted BIOS?

Asked by DJ1andDT2 in General Laptop, Computer Hard Drives, PC Laptops

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Usually I am the one giving advice or helping others with their Computer issues but this time I am stumped and need assistance from the experts.

Here is the scenario:
My IBM T30 had a 40 GB hard drive with windows XP SP2 installed and was running great for several years.  

Long story short&
I usually wipe out the hard drive and reinstall windows every 6 months to a year pending on issues or to use Linux instead& should have dual booted but oh well&.
I noticed my hard drive began to click every so often, and determined I needed a new one ASAP.

I got a Western Digital (WD1200BEVE ?) 120GB hard drive for space and a speed upgrade.
"      When I installed the drive to the T30:
"      The BIOS had exclamation points after the drive, possibly Corrupted?
"      Windows XP would not install, and only saw 69 GB on the partition but could not edit/create/etc to the drive.
"      I tried a vista CD and it only noticed 39GB or so when then the install failed.
"      I booted from the vista CD and somehow got it to boot into safemode.  The hard drive read 62B

I gave up on this 120GB drive and put my old trusty but failing 40 GB back in.  
Now the BIOS sees the drive but still ahs exclamation points after what I presume is the S/N and Windows would not boot.

I tried the hard drive error detection disks (WD for the 120GB and Hitachi for the 40GB).  I could not write 0s to the 120GB.


Is it possible the 120 GB corrupted the BIOS to not read any hard drive?

Please excuse me if I am rambling.  I can clarify my post if required.Start Free Trial
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