HARDDRIVE FOR G550

MY LENOVO G550 SAYS NO HARDDRIVE AND WHEN I TURN ON IT SAYS CHECK CABLE?I AINT GOT ACLUE PLEASE HELP.THANKS

As normal with this model, only trouble, i regret buying this laptop, since i bought this model i had only trouble with it.
First problem with this notebook: it came with lots of application installed, so i bought another license of windows, reformatted the drive and reinstalled the os.
Second: i had trouble with the device drivers on win xp 32 bit, all went ok, but after i installed the sound driver i had verry weird sound. The same with vista 32 bit, the only version of win on wich my audio drivers work correctly are win 7 32/64 bit.
Third: There are no drivers for Win xp 64 bit: I mean, hello, windows xp 64 bit does not exist or what? This is frustrating for me, because i enjoy using win xp rather than win 7, an win xp 32 bit does not recognise the ull capacity of 4 gb RAM.
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Is it like this one?
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Thanks, I'll give that a try when I finally get the Windows 7 upgrade disk.
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ive currently got an older model of the macbook pro with an 80GB harddrive. the programs i have installed use up a large majority of the harddrive space and as such, im struggling to ensure that i have even 1gb spare. i use external harddrives too, but i was thinking it would be nice to have more space on the internal harddrive.
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You can find instructions on how to replace it at http://www.ifixit.com
You can find replacement drives at http://www.macsales.com - I only mention this lot as you can see some of the possible replacement drives. Apple tend to use Seagate, Hitachi, Fujitsu and possibly Toshiba to my knowledge.
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Hi Vaibhav,
Welcome to the forum!
Try any or all of these steps.
1. Enter the BIOS and set it to default values.
2. Disable the device driver that has problem in the device manager. If you see any yellow or red marks under a device then "Disable the profile" of the device by first going into it's properties.
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