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Hard Drive upgrade

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  • 25-11-2011 8:48pm
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    Mackyboy
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    Hi all,
    I have a dell dimenion 8300 thats about 8 years old.
    I have just bought a new hard drive, going from 120GB to 500GB. The new one is a SATA, and it came with a SATA to IDE converter kit. I have connected all the cables, and in the bios under drive config - primary drive, it tell me it 500GB. But when i reboot ready to reload windows, it stops a says primary drive 1 not found.

    Any idea of what i doing wrong
    Cheers
    MB


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    [Deleted User]
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    please dont say you removed the old hard drive?


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    Mackyboy
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    Yeah i did, i thought the new could replace the old new. I did that a couple of years ago when they were both IDE drive. Can you not do that when going from IDE to SATA

    MB


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    [Deleted User]
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    you have your operating system on your old drive. you will need to plug it back in and set as your primary.
    I presume you can fit the two hdd's in your pc?


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    [Deleted User]
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    On Dells you need to disable any unused SATA or IDE ports in the BIOS. Otherwise you'll get the error you described.


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