Adding an internal hard drive

[rachelannhampton]

Trying to add sn extra internal hard drive on Dell precision 3600. Fits in to place easily but does show up. It's like it doesn't exist.

 

[n0ns3ns3]

As far as I remember, Dell has a nasty BIOS that requires to enable each SATA port in BIOS. if the port enabled and the drive is not connected, it will annoy with warning message during boot.

 

[rachelannhampton]

As far as I remember, Dell has a nasty BIOS that requires to enable each SATA port in BIOS. if the port enabled and the drive is not connected, it will annoy with warning message during boot.

 

[rachelannhampton]

Sata ports are enabled shown by a tick .. but hard drive still not showing

 

[n0ns3ns3]

If the drive does not appear in BIOS, make sure it's connected to both power and SATA cables and that those cables are good (changing them is a good idea).
other than that, faulty hard drive is very probable

 

[rachelannhampton]

If the drive does not appear in BIOS, make sure it's connected to both power and SATA cables and that those cables are good (changing them is a good idea).
other than that, faulty hard drive is very probable

 

[rachelannhampton]

Tom hard drive appears in bios but even changing Sata ports isn't working and tried enabling them individually... seems impossible. Tomorrow taking it to a technician... Hard drive must be fine and cable, both are brand new and it appears in bios