Travelmate 6000 detects only one hard drive

Hello,

I'm having the following problem: an Acer Travelmate 6000 only detects
one particular hard drive, any other hard disk is not detected by the
BIOS.

Unfortunately I need to replace the hard drive that is detected by the
bios as it contains cluster errors. However, no other hard drive is
detected by the BIOS (I tried in total 5 other hard drives of which I
know for sure they work - even a hard disk from another Acer
Travelmate 6000 laptop (bought at the same time) is not detected!).

Any ideas what might be causing this? Any ideas on how to fix it?

I already tried flashing the BIOS (upgraded and downgraded, but with
no luck).

I also tried to remove the CMOS battery, but I did not find this
battery on the motherboard (any ideas where I can find that)?

So, anybody any tips?

Thx,
Robbie

are the other drives the same size in gb?

<robbie.desutter@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I'm having the following problem: an Acer Travelmate 6000 only detects
> one particular hard drive, any other hard disk is not detected by the
> BIOS.
>
> Unfortunately I need to replace the hard drive that is detected by the
> bios as it contains cluster errors. However, no other hard drive is
> detected by the BIOS (I tried in total 5 other hard drives of which I
> know for sure they work - even a hard disk from another Acer
> Travelmate 6000 laptop (bought at the same time) is not detected!).
>
> Any ideas what might be causing this? Any ideas on how to fix it?
>
> I already tried flashing the BIOS (upgraded and downgraded, but with
> no luck).
>
> I also tried to remove the CMOS battery, but I did not find this
> battery on the motherboard (any ideas where I can find that)?
>
> So, anybody any tips?
>
> Thx,
> Robbie
>

Yes.

Even more: I bought 2 identical Acer Travelmate 6000 laptops 3 years
ago with exactly the same specs (and so also the same brand, type,
size (60Gb), and number of heads and platters of the hard disk). This
other Travelmate is still working without any problem (hard disk is
fine). When I place the hard disk from this other Acer into the first
(problematic) Acer, the disk is not detected.

Vice versa, there is no problem: the hard disk of the problematic Acer
is immediately detected by the second Acer.

So somehow my problematic Acer only accepts than one particular HDD -
not even a hard disk that is identical in brand, type and size,
apperently only different by the serial number...