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    M1710 does not see a 500gb HDD

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by mfractal, May 5, 2010.

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    Hey all. I've decided to do a refresh for my wife's m1710.
    I had a spare mobo, a new set of speakers and subwoofer, a bdrw drive and a new 500 7200rpm hdd that i pulled from my alienware.
    So, i did all the changes, booted, bios shows me the HDD correctly as 500GB but when i try to install windows on it it does not see it and asks me to load a driver for the chipset. Now, i know that windows 7 knows that chipset because i have previously installed it on a smaller drive w/o problems so what gives ?
    Is it too big of a disk for the m1710 ?
     
    mfractal, May 5, 2010
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