I have a HP Pavilion G6 which I was thinking of upgrading.
I bought a 12.7mm ODD caddy and put a 120 GB SSD in it and my laptop didn't recognize it. So, I tried another caddy but still the same. I then tried using the HDD in the caddy and it also didn't work. I assumed that a caddy won't work with my laptop. Then when I put back my optical drive the laptop, it also didn't show up in the device manager. I have replaced my HDD with SSD but I want to use the HDD in the laptop as well.
My laptop just has 120 gigs of storage right now.
The issue is -
If I use the caddy then caddy lights are working but can't see the HDD in disk management of device management.
If I use the laptop's optical drive, it also isn't working now. The lights work but I can't see it anywhere.
I have tried looking in hidden devices. For some reason I think it's a problem with SATA. I only see one IDE ATA/ATAPI controller under device manager. I think it should be 2 (one for the SSD where OS is installed and one for my HDD) but I am not sure about this.
How can I get the caddy HDD running?
I bought a 12.7mm ODD caddy and put a 120 GB SSD in it and my laptop didn't recognize it. So, I tried another caddy but still the same. I then tried using the HDD in the caddy and it also didn't work. I assumed that a caddy won't work with my laptop. Then when I put back my optical drive the laptop, it also didn't show up in the device manager. I have replaced my HDD with SSD but I want to use the HDD in the laptop as well.
My laptop just has 120 gigs of storage right now.
The issue is -
If I use the caddy then caddy lights are working but can't see the HDD in disk management of device management.
If I use the laptop's optical drive, it also isn't working now. The lights work but I can't see it anywhere.
I have tried looking in hidden devices. For some reason I think it's a problem with SATA. I only see one IDE ATA/ATAPI controller under device manager. I think it should be 2 (one for the SSD where OS is installed and one for my HDD) but I am not sure about this.
How can I get the caddy HDD running?