Segate From Ebay.

[teck7droid]

Hey, I just got the Segate today. I installed it on my dell axim and it is not recognized. Then I installed it on my laptop through a card reader, and it doesnt show in My Computer or anything.

Lastly I went to my brothers Pc, and he has a cf2 card reader in his printer. Through their, his pc recognized the Segate. But, once i tried to explore the drive it says i have to reformatt it

It completes around 90percent then it says UNABLE TO FORMAT DRIVE

The segate doesnt work. How can we fix this problem, Could you tell me how i can get it to work, Thanks.

Heres the auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWN:IT

[teck7droid]

Bumb Please somone help with the trouble shooting :)

since no one else is answering i will give you my best answer. I would try to send it back. is it a OEM drive? they usually have had a plain white label on them from what I have read. If it is then it won't work in your Axim anyway. If it is a regular drive then since it can't be worked with on either the axim or the pc then it is probably bad anyway. get in touch with the ebay seller and see what they will do for you. good luck

[will5404]

Says in big letters "OEM" on the auction so I'm guessing that's why it wont work in the Axim, I would try and send it back if you could.

FYI only retail drives actually work in PDA's such as an Axim which are usually more expensive.

[teck7droid]

Says in big letters "OEM" on the auction so I'm guessing that's why it wont work in the Axim, I would try and send it back if you could.

FYI only retail drives actually work in PDA's such as an Axim which are usually more expensive.

thanks guys, The seller spoke with me, We think ups messed up the drive upon shipping. Hes gonna get reimburst by ups then reinmburst me. He said it worked fine on Hp Pda's Why wont it work on Dell Pda's?

And it has no Firmware, From what i read here, if it has firmware then its bad, if its clean then its ok.

It doenst read on my card reader only throught my brothers card reader on his printer. Even then it wont open unless i formatt, And that never sucessfully finishes.

Should I try again with another segate? or simply get the Hatachi 6 gigs, at new egg with the 40 buck rebate. Would that work?

[jimbo32]

thanks guys, The seller spoke with me, We think ups messed up the drive upon shipping. Hes gonna get reimburst by ups then reinmburst me. He said it worked fine on Hp Pda's Why wont it work on Dell Pda's?

And it has no Firmware, From what i read here, if it has firmware then its bad, if its clean then its ok.

It doenst read on my card reader only throught my brothers card reader on his printer. Even then it wont open unless i formatt, And that never sucessfully finishes.

Should I try again with another segate? or simply get the Hatachi 6 gigs, at new egg with the 40 buck rebate. Would that work?

My 6gb Hitachi works great in my X50V. I also have a 3gb Hitachi that I use in my HP 2215 that also works great in either PDA.

[gjw]

FYI only retail drives actually work in PDA's such as an Axim which are usually more expensive.

Pratically true but not technically true.
I have OEM drives that do work in my PDAs but they are older.
It's not the OEM vs Retail that matters --- it's the interface.
CF interface works --- IDE interface doesn't (with PPC2000, PPC2002, and WM2003).
It isn't that it's locked and it isn't the firmware, it's the interface inside the drive and that's hardware.
If you can open up the drive and rewire the interface then you'll make it work but that's the only way.

Card readers in a WinXP laptop or desktop read both interfaces so if a drive doesn't work there then the drive or the reader is broken.

Older OEM drives came in either style interface but most companies have changed to IDE to specifically prevent you from harvesting the drives.

But......
the early specs for WM5 said that IDE interface would be supported so OEM drives might work just fine with WM5 devices, be they CF or IDE --- I'm still waiting for my X51v to check this out.
If this proves true then someone will perhaps figure out a way to reverse engineer the WM5 driver to make it compatible with earlier OSes.