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    Dell XPS 17 L702x not seeing Samsung 850 SSD in BIOS

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by etcetera, Dec 30, 2018.

  1. etcetera

    etcetera Notebook Evangelist

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    The Samsung 850 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD is not showing up in BIOS or anywhere else in the machine such as in Disk Management. What can I do about it?

    The machine is Dell L702x.
     
    etcetera, Dec 30, 2018
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    Necro. Have you tried the modded BIOSes? They might help. If not, best guess is the drive is faulty if the laptop sees other drives.
     
    Silekonn, Apr 28, 2019
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    Are you sure the SSD works? Did you try it on another computer?
     
    Spartan@HIDevolution, Apr 28, 2019
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    It has been 6 months since I posted and I forgot what I did, but it does see it.

    It works. Now I moved the primary drive that was in there, the SSD/HDD hybrid 750GB drive, to the secondary place. Now the strange thing is, when looking at Disk Management I see one letter assigned to that HDD and when looking at EasyBCD, I see another letter. And I cannot make a dual boot, or a clone via Macrium reflect.
     
    etcetera, May 22, 2019
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