Vista Upgrade

[Tango T]

Hello all. I have a Pavilion a1560n. I want to upgrade to Vista but to
just be sure I bought a new Maxtorl hard drive so if I need to I can swap
out hard drives and be back to operation (work required). The new Maxtor
says it is a SATA but it has a 1.5GBs on it's SATA logo which the original
Western Digital does not, Western Digital only has SATA logo.

When I boot to the BIOS it recognizes the Maxtor and correctly identified
the model number. Whe I try to load any OS it says it can't find a hard
drive. The specs on my HP says the original hard drive is a SATA II and the
Maxtor drive says it it SATA II. All seems to be in order.

I have not been keeping up with SATA types or different gotchas.

Any ideas what is going on?

Thanks,
Tango

 

[Drew]

if it works dont worry about it I think vista changes the names of some of
the hardware like my video card was not the same name in xp got change a
little in vista.

 

[Don]

Hello all. I have a Pavilion a1560n. I want to upgrade to Vista but to
just be sure I bought a new Maxtorl hard drive so if I need to I can swap
out hard drives and be back to operation (work required). The new Maxtor
says it is a SATA but it has a 1.5GBs on it's SATA logo which the original
Western Digital does not, Western Digital only has SATA logo.

When I boot to the BIOS it recognizes the Maxtor and correctly identified
the model number. Whe I try to load any OS it says it can't find a hard
drive. The specs on my HP says the original hard drive is a SATA II and the
Maxtor drive says it it SATA II. All seems to be in order.

I have not been keeping up with SATA types or different gotchas.

Couple of things in your post are a bit confusing. First, the name
SATA II is ambiguous: http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp

You say the Maxtor is SATA II but marked 1.5GBs.

Second, I'm not sure what you mean by "try to load any OS". Do you
mean 'install' or 'boot' the OS?

Are there any jumpers on the new Maxtor (or places for them)?