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My daughter has an old Dell workstation with an iffy HDD. I fitted a new HDD this afternoon with the intention of cloning the old one and replacing it.

I connected the SATA cable and Power supply easily and correctly but on booting the computer it doesn't show up. Can't find it in Bios either.

First thought is the HDD just doesn't work. Any suggestions for testing it would be welcomed.

If not that, what is it likely to be?

Thanks

Dave

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Fit it to replace the old drive in its own, using the old drives cabling. If the drive is detected ok then it's cabling or sata port or bios settings for the extra drive.

When you say the drive is iffy what do you mean?

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The drive works most of the times but every now and again it gets noisy and slows right down.

I would like to get it changed before it fails.

The new drive I have isn't new, it came out of a working computer.

I wiped it before I took it out but that was some time ago.

I will try what you suggest tomorrow when I can get at it again.

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity

 

 

 

http://www.safetypublishing.co.uk/
http://www.safetypublishing.ie/

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