Hi all,
I bought a cheap SATA/Slimline SATA adapter in lieu of an HDD caddy to install a Corsair force SSD into my old Dell latitude e5430's optical drive bay. I can confirm that the drive and cable are sound; I tested two drives (SSD and HDD) with a Vostro 1440 and both were detected in Windows 10 and usable.
My question is in regard to the e5430, in which the drive is not detected in BIOS or Windows DM. I strongly believe it is not receiving power, as the HDD I tried did not spin up like it did in the Vostro. Windows is booting off an SSD via AHCI so there should be no incompatibilities. Are there any power options for the fixed drive bay? Are there any registry fixes like ZeroODDPower in Win8? Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
I bought a cheap SATA/Slimline SATA adapter in lieu of an HDD caddy to install a Corsair force SSD into my old Dell latitude e5430's optical drive bay. I can confirm that the drive and cable are sound; I tested two drives (SSD and HDD) with a Vostro 1440 and both were detected in Windows 10 and usable.
My question is in regard to the e5430, in which the drive is not detected in BIOS or Windows DM. I strongly believe it is not receiving power, as the HDD I tried did not spin up like it did in the Vostro. Windows is booting off an SSD via AHCI so there should be no incompatibilities. Are there any power options for the fixed drive bay? Are there any registry fixes like ZeroODDPower in Win8? Any insight or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.