Adding 2.5" hard drive to Pavilion 500-281

I have looked inside the PC and it does have the open slot for a 2.5" drive.
So now it's time to buy a hard drive. Am I to assume that a standard 2.5" SATA drive is the correct choice? I'm seeing these advertised as notebook drives, obviously because of their size and power consumption. Are there any incompatibiliities with these drives in a desktop, such as power requirements? Is there a special 2.5" drive meant for desktops only?
Any specific recommendations in terms of brands that have good reliability? I'm looking in the 750GB to 1TB range.
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I simply call them HDD's or hard drives. Personally, I like Western Digital drives. I have had more of them over the years. They have always been reliable.
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Where to put 2nd drive in Pavilion 500-281?

I've reviewed the online documentation and have actually looked inside the PC but don't see where a 2nd SATA drive is supposed to be installed. I've seen the extra power cables, understand where the data cable plugs into the motherboard, completely familiar with how to add a drive. But on this PC I just don't see at first glance where the drive goes.
While I'm posting, I'd also like to confirm that the 300W power supply is sufficient to power the additional drive.
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Hi,
You current power supply is sufficient for extra hard drives. However, depending on your specific model, there may or may not be a provision for a 2.5" SSD. You will hvae to open up your PC and look. Please see the below image.
The SSD or 2.5" hard drive actually mounts from the in side of the chassis. Review the information that is posted in this thread. You will need a SATA data cable.
Review the reference for a dual 3.5" hard drive stacking bracket in the same thread.
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Ello, I changed my Imac hard drive which no longer worked. I installed a hard drive Western Digital 500 GB 7200 rpm SATA3 WD5002AALX 32M Black. Sometimes I see the hard disk in the utility on the Starter CD, but access seems very slow. By cons when I want

Hello, I changed my Imac hard drive which no longer worked. I installed a hard drive
Western Digital 500 GB 7200 rpm SATA3 WD5002AALX 32M Black. Sometimes I see the hard disk in the utility on the Starter CD, but access seems very slow. By cons when I want
install OS X 10.4.2 on the hard drive, I do not see the disk. What is the problem?

Thanks for the help
I started on the installation CD OS X 10.4.2, I used Disk Utility
to partition the disk according to the document that you have proposed. unfortunately
I have not succeeded. When I partition the disk, even if I called it Macintosh HD, it
does not keep the name and it shows disk0s3 instead. I did an erase on disk.
When I mount the disk it tells me that I must repair. When I tried to repair, I got
the following message:
Volume check failed
The underflying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error.
I also had a message:
Invalid b-tree node size.
Note: The disc is new, but it has already been formatted on a computer Imac 27 inch 2011 OS X Lion.
I used a USB 2.0 to SATA cable to adjust the formatting.
What to do to fix it?

Adding A New Hard Drive

I've been thinking about adding a second hard drive. The problem is that I'm not sure which configuration would best fit my needs.
Currently I have one 120GB Maxtor SATA drive which, after six months, is half full. This leads me to conclude that eventually I'm going to fill it up.
Since I have only this one drive and no DVD writer, I don't have any good way of backing up my drive in case something fails. I don't have any vital data, but I've spent a long time getting my settings perfect, and I don't want to lose them.
I also know that doing a RAID doesn't give me more space. I know that RAID 0 basically uses two drives in parallel to double the storage efficiency, but if one drive fails, all the data on both is lost. I also know that RAID 1 copies all changes to the second hard drive and thus also does not increase my overall storage space.
What are my other options? If I buy another SATA drive, what ways do I have to copy my entire disk onto the new one? How does XP handle installation on the new drive? How do I switch between drives? I was thinking that I could put all my large music and video files on the new drive and then optimize my old drive for my games. This will still make it possible for me to listen to my music in Winamp while playing a game, right?
How do I install the new drive? Do I have to go into my BIOS and configure something? Here's what it says about my IDE setup (I don't know what IDE means either.)
Primary IDE Master = DVD-ROM
Primary IDE Slave = CD - RW
Secondary IDE Master = n/a
Secondary IDE Slave = n/a
Third IDE Master = Maxtor HDD
Third IDE Master = n/a
etc.
What does Master/Slave mean as far as usage and performance goes? Which SATA plug should I use for the new drive?
Sorry for the silly questions, I've never used a machine with more than one hard drive before.
EDIT: What brand hard disk do you guys recommend? I have in mind either Western Digital or Seagate. I won't have any compatibility or performance issues from using two drives of different make and capacity, will I?
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Hi. I will try to help with some of your questions. Its easy but time consuming to move/copy files from one hard drive to another. Just drag the files/folders from one drive to the other one. That moves them. To copy them Select them and the select copy then go to the other drive and select paste. With two hard drives its best to set them up as one for system files and apps (your c drive) and one for storage (your D drive). Your optical drives then become e and f. If your case you would leave your current drive as C and the new drive would become your d storage drive. Moving your mp3s, vids, etc (i.e, non-system files or not apps), could take some hours, but that is usually no problem because you can do small numbers of files at a time or do it overnight. By the way you never want to fill up your hard drive, especially your c drive. Always leave 20+ percent free so you can get quick reading/writing to it. Mp3's, vids, pix etc play just fine from your stoage drive and your games play great from the c drive. And you can do both at the same time.
Masters and slaves have the same performance but that only applies to IDE drives. There is no master/slave designation for SATA drives.
Backing up your system files can then be done on your storage drive, but as harib said you can back up the important system files to a CD. Windows provides a backup utility for that. You can also back them up to your storage drive if you want.
If you truly want backups of ALL of your files, including storage, is simply a matter of adding another drive and then copying all of the files to the new drive. Hopefully you would never have both those two drives go bad at the same time.
Western Digital, Maxtor and Seagate are all good drives. You first must decide if your new drive will be SATA or IDE. You might just get another SATA drive for storage, but a lower cost IDE drive of similar capacity for your storage drive likely will be just as fast for for mp3s,etc. SATA really helps on your system drive which you already have.
Installation of drives is a bit more complicated with SATA drives in the sytem but can be relatively easy to do once you decide what drive to get. Don't base your purchase decision on installationo ease.
When you are about ready to install come back to the forum with specific details of what you want to install and someone will be happy to talk you through the process.
Good luck!

Hi! I have a WD my book external hard drive plugged into my imac and I want to share it over my network with my apple tv. I went into system preferences sharing, checked "file sharing" and added my external hard drive to the shared folder. So now it is

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I have a WD my book external hard drive plugged into my imac and I want to share it over my network with my apple tv. I went into system preferences > sharing, checked "file sharing" and added my external hard drive to the shared folder. So now it is listed in "shared folders" but under "users" everything is grayed out (it says "read and write" for "everyone" - but "read and write" is grayed out, and it doesn't let me add or subtract users). Now I can access all of the folders I shared from my imac except for the externalhard drive. What's going on?

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I understand that you are having issues installing Adobe Flash Player on your HP Pavilion 500-281 Desktop PC running Windows 7. I am providing you with a link to the Adobe Troubleshooting document: Flash Player Help / Installation problems | Flash Player | Windows, which Adobe has designed to address installation problems. I would advise you review the document and apply the suggested steps contained within.
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Hp pavilion 500 - 281 Adding second drive

New HP Pavilon 500 arrived today.
I have the sata drive off win7 pc with blown m.b.
When I hook the sata up, the PC does not recognize the second drive ???
If I hook it up to my Dell with Win7, instantly recognized, so I do not understand (computer manage/disk management)
Std sata drive 1TB W/D hard drive
If I want to boot from USB Stick, I cannot get my PC to recognize. I thought I could just go into setup and change boot order so the sandisk usb is selected ? But at least computer/manage/diskmgmt shows the usb stick.
Does not seem to change the boot, it just wants to go into windows ??
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I believe you have WIN7 with a UEFI BIOS. Here is a way to check. Also a link I suggest you read. Look for a Security tab. Somewhere in the BIOS tabs is a list of the SATA ports. Sata 0 (your initial HD) and Sata2 (your disk drive) should reflect being ENABLED. Sata1 likely reads DISABLED. See here, source LasVegasWireman. Also, look at this commentary on a similiar series unit.
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Missing Large Chunk of Hard Drive Space - Pavilion Dv4t

Hi All,
I purchased a Pavillion Dv4t about a month ago with a 320 gb hard drive. Upon first inspection, I noticed that the drive partitions, when added together, fell way short of 320gb. The C drive plus Recovery drive = 298 gb! I initially wondered if the missing space was a hidden partition containing vista, and that when I custom installed windows 7, I would be able to formatt that part of the drive to install 7. This does not appear to be the case as the install upgrade only showed the 2 partitions totaling 298gigs.
Does anyone know what that missing space is and how to recover it? Or is it something important that I shouldent mess with?
Has anyone else had this problem or noticed that they are missing this much hard drive space?
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Capacity measurements
A disassembled and labeled 1997 hard drive. All major components were placed on a mirror, which created the symmetrical reflections.
Raw unformatted capacity of a hard disk drive is usually quoted with SI prefixes (metric system prefixes), incrementing by powers of 1000; today that usually means gigabytes (GB) and terabytes (TB). This is conventional for data speeds and memory sizes which are not inherently manufactured in power of two sizes, as RAM and Flash memory are. Hard disks by contrast have no inherent binary size as capacity is determined by number of heads, tracks and sectors.
This can cause some confusion because some operating systems may report the formatted capacity of a hard drive using binary prefix units which increment by powers of 1024.
A one terabyte (1 TB) disk drive would be expected to hold around 1 trillion bytes (1,000,000,000,000) or 1000 GB; and indeed most 1 TB hard drives will contain slightly more than this number. However some operating system utilities would report this as around 931 GB or 953,674 MB, whereas the correct units would be 931 GiB or 953,674 MiB. (The actual number for a formatted capacity will be somewhat smaller still, depending on the file system). Following are the correct ways of reporting one Terabyte.
SI prefixes (Hard Drive) equivalent Binary prefixes (OS) equivalent
1 TB (Terabytes) 1 * 10004 B 0.9095 TiB (Tebibytes) 0.9095 * 10244 B
1000 GB (Gigabytes) 1000 * 10003 B 931.3 GiB (Gibibytes) 931.3 * 10243 B
1,000,000 MB (Megabytes) 1,000,000 * 10002 B 953,674.3 MiB (Mebibytes) 953,674.2 * 10242 B
1,000,000,000 KB (Kilobytes) 1,000,000,000 * 1000 B 976,562,500 KiB (Kibibytes) 976,562,500 * 1024 B
1,000,000,000,000 B (bytes) - 1,000,000,000,000 B (bytes) -
Microsoft Windows reports disk capacity both in a decimal integer to 12 or more digits and in binary prefix units to three significant digits.
The capacity of an HDD can be calculated by multiplying the number of cylinders by the number of heads by the number of sectors by the number of bytes/sector (most commonly 512). Drives with the ATA interface and a capacity of eight gigabytes or more behave as if they were structured into 16383 cylinders, 16 heads, and 63 sectors, for compatibility with older operating systems. Unlike in the 1980s, the cylinder, head, sector (C/H/S) counts reported to the CPU by a modern ATA drive are no longer actual physical parameters since the reported numbers are constrained by historic operating-system interfaces and with zone bit recording the actual number of sectors varies by zone. Disks with SCSI interface address each sector with a unique integer number; the operating system remains ignorant of their head or cylinder count.
The old C/H/S scheme has been replaced by logical block addressing. In some cases, to try to "force-fit" the C/H/S scheme to large-capacity drives, the number of heads was given as 64, although no modern drive has anywhere near 32 platters.
[edit] Formatted disk overhead
For a formatted drive, the operating system's file system internal usage is another, although minor, reason why a computer hard drive or storage device's capacity may show its capacity as different from its theoretical capacity. This would include storage for, as examples, a file allocation table (FAT) or inodes, as well as other other operating system data structures. This file system overhead is usually less than 1% on drives larger than 100 MB. For RAID drives, data integrity and fault-tolerance requirements also reduce the realized capacity. For example, a RAID1 drive will be about half the total capacity as a result of data mirroring. For RAID5 drives with x drives you would lose 1/x of your space to parity. RAID drives are multiple drives that appear to be one drive to the user, but provides some fault-tolerance.
A general rule of thumb to quickly convert the manufacturer's hard disk capacity to the standard Microsoft Windows formatted capacity is 0.93*capacity of HDD from manufacturer for HDDs less than a terabyte and 0.91*capacity of HDD from manufacturer for HDDs equal to or greater than 1 terabyte.
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2nd hard drive for Dual 500 MHz Sawtooth

I have a G4 dual 500 MHz sawtooth with a 40 GB hard drive and 1 GB of RAM. I don't have any PCI slots left and I was hoping to add a second drive. Is this possible? Does this model have the ribbon and power supply for a second drive? I've been searching the discussions, but haven't found any info on this.
Also, is an ATA-133 drive fast enough for this model or could I put something in that's faster?

Hi, Al -
I have a G4 dual 500 MHz sawtooth...
A dual 500MHz G4 is not a Sawtooth model; the Sawtooths are the G4 (AGP) models.
Your dual 500MHz G4 is a Gigabit Ethernet model.
Yes, it does come pre-equipped to accept a second internal drive - the mounting sled, data cable connector, and power cable connector for it are already present.
The built-in controller is an ATA/66 controller. This means it has a hardware limit of not being able to 'see' more than 128GB of drive size. If a drive larger than that is connected, only 128GB of it will be available. This is a drive size limit, not a volume limit; partitioning will make no difference.
The new drive should be an ATA (or PATA, Parallel ATA) drive, not a SATA (Serial ATA) drive. Although the bus speed is ATA/66, newer drives are often ATA/100 or ATA/133 - that's okay, such a drive should work fine though it will operate at ATA/66 speed. Since that is the case, there is no advantage in paying extra for speeds in excess of ATA/66 - unless the plan is to be able to use it at a later time on a newer machine with a faster bus.
Typically the original drive will have been jumpered as Master. Set the jumpers on the new drive to Slave. Which drive is which makes little difference; the designations of Master and Slave are addresses, and do not establish a priority or preference - either can be used as the primary boot drive.
If your original drive happens to be a Western Digital, it may be using a third jumper setting, Single - this is often used by WD drives when it is the only device on the bus. If this is the case, it will need to have its jumpers reset to Master (or Slave, as desired) when adding a second drive.
When there are two devices on the bus, and Master and Slave are used, there can be only one of each.
Do not use Cable Select on that model G4.
Another option would be to use a firewire drive. Your machine is firewire bootable. Such drives offer a lot in convenience, in the ability to move them from one machine to another quickly.
Some cost savings in having a firewire drive can be achieved by purchasing a firewire drive enclosure (rather than a complete drive), then installing a relatively inexpensive ATA drive.

I got a Model Number: A1181, My hard drive burned out. I bouhgt a new hard drive Wd Scorpio 500 GB. When i tried to install the MAC OS, it identies a hard drive with 3.6 TB and i'm not able to do the installation.

I got a Model Number: A1181, My hard drive burned out. I bouhgt a new hard drive Wd Blue Scorpio 500 GB. When i tried to install the MAC OS, it identifies a hard drive with 3.6 TB and i'm not able to do the installation. I touhgt the new ard drive was bad but i was able to install windows XP. Any ideas what do i have to do?

Well, let's hope that nothing was jiggled out of place when you were installing the new hard drive. Your optical drive may just be out of alignment or the disc you have is "dirty." Get a lint-free cloth and some rubbing alcohol, then clean the disc as thoroughly as you can starting from the center and working outward in a concentric circlular motion. See if that helps. In particular clean the inner portion well.
If this does not help, then you have a problem. You have opened the computer yourself. That action voids all support from Apple. If you take the computer in for service the store may refuse to service the computer. This is not related to your now expired warranty.

I've added an external hard drive, do I now need more memory?

Hello,
Ever since I added the external harddrive, I've encountered some problems: one is that my internet access has slowed down tremendously, behaving like a dial up instead of broadband cable.
The other is in iDVD, I get an error message when burning a 1.5 hr dvd. Then iDVD freezes and I must force quit.
I was wondering if the 1 GB ram was enough for the additional harddrive -
I have about 60GB left on my internal hard drive.
I have also run tests on my memory and all have come out ok.
Thank you!
Lisette

"Question: if I were to clone everything over to the external drive, would I need to completely reinstall Mac OSX and all the applications that came with the computer?"
No, when you clone using SuperDuper, everything would be duplicated and then you'd be duplicating it all back. The purpose is to defragment the HDD space. With possible very large files, the unused spaces themselves could get large and your Mac could perceive your HDD as being more full than it actually is. This despite the fact that Tiger automatically defrags. It's just that you may be using very large files, sort of exclusively, so there's no chance for Tiger to fill in.
First check out this current memory problem and the compatibility of your MyBook and its software, if you're using that. Otherwise, you could spend a terrific amount of time and end up only freeing up maybe an extra 10GB on your HDD.
Your page outs are very unfavorable, and indicate a very high demand for additional memory. I'm surprised since you have 1GB, but then I don't know what all you're doing. If this just happened in the last day or two, is it possible that you put a large amount of stuff on the external HD, and that Spotlight is in the process of indexing it? If that is happening at the same time that you're trying to use your entire 1GB of memory for iDVD, then that would be a likely explanation. Or anything like that in the way of multiple app use could be causing it. If that is what's going on, and your RAM is OK, then you'll be deciding about adding memory sooner than I thought!
Edit-
Sorry, also reread your posts, not seeing a reference to the external being firewire. Hope so, and that you're using that and not USB, being much slower. I definitely would not proceed with any cloning without firewire, or without additional RAM, unless you have a lot of spare time. Keep in mind, please, that too slow puts your iMac at some risk. What if there's a storm came up and power went out or worse in the middle of a day's worth of cloning? If you have valuable stuff on your HDD or external, don't be too quick to put it all at risk.
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i bought this new oem at computer rennaisance. they tell me it does not matter the size of the hard drive, even though it is small er than the one that came in computer. they said make sure new hard drive is initialized. how can i initialize when there is no operating system on hard drive.if i initialize Computer Rennasaince said I should be able to use my recovery disks. cannot initialize without operating system. Thanks Charles

Why can't I see my external hard drive, Intel iMac / 500 GB, G-Drive

Why can't I see my external hard drive? I have a new iMac, Intel based i5, running Lion (2-3 months old). I have a 500 GB G-Drive external hard drive that has showed up when connected to my iMac for the past 2-3 months. Now it's gone. It's NOT visible when using Disk Utilities. I have all of the radio buttons chosen in the Finder Preferences. I've unplugged and replugged in the drive, have switched the cable ports and have switched firewire cable. The G-Drive powers up and whirls, so I don't believe the problem is with the drive. Yes, I set my Preferences to make sure ALL disk types are visible. I've restarted my iMac on a number of occations. I rest my SMC by totally unplugging my iMac for a minute, then plugging it back in. Any suggestions?

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Adding an External Hard Drive to a Time Capsule

I want to add an External Hard Drive to my Time Capsule to be accessed by both a Macbook Pro and a windows PC
I've added it ok and I think I configured Airport utility ok yet when I find my time capsule in the network neighbor hood and log in to it
I cannot see the external hard drive. I configured the airport utility with Accounts, with disk Password and a device password.
yet I cannot see or find the External hard drive. the hard drive is fromatted with Ex-fat
If someone could point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it.
thanks

As long as you keep the drive at the network location at the Time Capsule, both Macs and PCs will be able to read and write to a drive formatted in Mac OS Extended (Journaled), also known as HFS+.
As you know, FAT32 has a file size limitation of 4GB for a single file. That may or may not be of concern.
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