My dad has an older laptop that I intalled Linux Mint on a long time ago and he loves his Linux Mint. For Father's Day I got him an SSD but when I would get to the part of the installation where it needs to format the drive it would always give me an error and fail. A few times it did this after I swapped the drives out but now the computer will not even boot to a Linux Mint ISO USB or DVD with the SSD drive in because it gives an error saying that there's no hard drive detected. Upon further inspection I think I've found the problem and I think it's a hardware issue I just don't know what to do about it. The old HDD has 4 more pins off to one side than the SSD does so I don't think the SSD has a chance of plugging in, although I don't know why it was letting me get as far into the installation process as it did the first few times if it couldn't see the SSD anyway. Images attached, what can I do about this? Thanks.
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Jump to PostWithout machine details I can't look into this. I will write that I've gone as far back as say a 2006 Dell e1505 with dual core Centrino and 1GB RAM to fit a SSD to let it be a nice enough Web tool. It would boot the OS and get …
Jump to PostWDC 8 pin uses. http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/981/c/123/session/L3RpbWUvMTM3OTYwNzQyNy9zaWQvSDJQeEFKQWw%3D#satadesktopjump
All makers did this years ago when machines were even older. Unless you have a PC close to 20 years old, I don't use those pins.
PS. Later I see we installed a WD Blue 1TB into an office laptop last week. …
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System: Host: gregs-laptop Kernel: 3.16.0-4-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Cinnamon 3.0.6 Distro: LinuxMint 2 betsy Machine: System: Dell product: Ins
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That was exactly the problem. Thanks so much!
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