Im fixing my friend laptop, and I came up with the problem, which was the hard drive, so what we did was we bought a new one. The old hard drive was Fujitsu 120 GB SATA and the new HDD is a Seagate 320 GB SATA. My problem is that after I choose the hard drive to install Windows Vista it gives me this error "Failed to create a new partition on the selected space: Error 0x80010105" Laptop Specs 1.8 GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TL-56 1 GB of DDR2 system memory, 120 GB hard disk drive (5400 rpm) SuperMulti DVD-R/RW drive with double-layer support 802.11b/g Wireless LAN network connection 5-in-1 digital media reader Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium Edition I would really appreciate if you guys give me a hand with this, Cheersssssssss!!!!! PS. This hard drive is brand new I ordered from Tigerdirect.
Some motherboards were designed to work with SATA 1@ 1.5Gb/s and if you put a SATA 2 drive on it it cannot be used, in extreme cases it may not even be recognized. Check to see if the motherboard is SATA 2 compatible, if it is not you will have to alter the jumpers on the back to SATA 1 the instructions will be on the HDD. Hope this helps
Before I answer this can you please tell me what is 1.5Gb/s or 3.0Gb/s what do they mean? Now that u mention thes the hard drive I bought is a SATA 3.0Gb/s and I think the old hard drive is a SATA 1.5Gb/s so I think that is the problem, I appreciate your help. Im gonna get one 1.5Gb/s and hopefully it works. Thanks
The 1.5Gb/s just refers to the data throughput for SATA I compared to 3 for SATA II. Even though the SATA II drives are supposed to be backward compatible with I, you do occasionally see this problem on SATA I motherboards. See if you can try a 160GB (or smaller) drive as often these tend to be ok when the larger ones don't work in these cases.