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    Installed new SSD

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by Sabaku, Dec 25, 2010.

  1. Sabaku

    Sabaku Notebook Geek

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    Just installed a new SSD, and put the HDD i had in the HDD1 Drive slot and the SSD in the HDD0 drive slot. The old hdd is not showing up, What did I do wrong? : [[
     
    Sabaku, Dec 25, 2010
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    jpowell490 Notebook Evangelist

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    Enable it in the BIOS?
     
    jpowell490, Dec 25, 2010
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  3. Sabaku

    Sabaku Notebook Geek

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    I see it in the bios, Seems to be enabled to me. I see it in device manager, even in Intel RST. hmm
     
    Sabaku, Dec 26, 2010
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  4. Ryan

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    run diskmgmt.msc

    and assign a drive letter to the old hard drive.

    If you don't see it in disk management tool, then there is a problem,, but I doubt you won't see the drive.

    let me know how this works out.

    ( on the win7 start menu, type diskmgmt.msc and then just hit enter. )
     
    Ryan, Dec 26, 2010
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    You may have to go under computer management and make sure it is mounted.
     
    jpowell490, Dec 26, 2010
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    idlehand Notebook Consultant

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    Go to Disk Management and see if it got assigned a Drive Letter. If you have any mapped network drives it may be conflicting. So you can change the drive letter from there.
     
    idlehand, Dec 26, 2010
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  7. Sabaku

    Sabaku Notebook Geek

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    Excellent!
    This fixed it :D

    Now I just need some ways to improve the speeds in this vertex 2, Still sitting at 5.9 in Windows Rating.
     
    Sabaku, Dec 26, 2010
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    beelsr Notebook Consultant

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    there are a few ssd performance/tuning threads around here to check out.
     
    beelsr, Dec 27, 2010
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