Acer travelmate 630 Notebook

[alberte]

my harddisk 30gb is crashed and i need a new one
the smallest harddisc taht i can buy is 40gb and more i tryed a 40gb seagate and 80gb toshiba both didn't work .
Acer have no new bios for that system

Program: eSupport.com BIOS Agent Version 3.66
BIOS Date: 12/27/04
BIOS Type: PhoenixBIOS Exclusively for ACER
BIOS ID: ACER TravelMate 630 BIOS Version: R01-C0P
OEM Sign-On: None
Chipset: ALi M1671 rev 2
Superio: NSC 336 rev 6 found at port 398h
OS: WinXP SP2
CPU: Mobile Intel(R) P 1800 Mhz MAX: 2000 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: No
BIOS ROM Size: 512K
Memory Installed: 256 MB
Memory Maximum: 3072 MB
Memory Slot 01: 0 MB
Memory Slot 02: 256 MB
ACPI Revision: Unknown

is there any chance to patch that bios to work with a greater harddisk than 30gb ?

[cp]

is the hdd detected at all? does the bios crash on hdd detection? does one of the new hdds spin up? do they both spin up? did you check the connection between hdd and mainboard?

[alberte]

The Harddisc was recognized by name and size in Bios
but the system didn't start from Harddisk or cdrom when a greater hd was
installed.

[cp]

didi you actually INSTALL something like an OS on the HDD?

[alberte]

i tryed both with and without os on the new harddisc and a cloned disk from original hd
the original hd boot perfektly