SSD wont post in Dell inspiron 1750 help

[HardwareHandyMan]

as the title states trying to run an ssd in a dell inspiron 1750 wont recognise the drive what do i do?

this is the drive i used: Sandisk SSD

 

[boosted1g]

Remove SSD and see if laptop bios has sata controller in IDE or AHCI mode, needs to be in AHCI mode.

Your laptop is pretty old and falls in the time frame where OEMs were locking BIOS compatibility wiht hardware to a whitelist, thus if your device is not on that whitelist it wont support it

 

[HardwareHandyMan]

Remove SSD and see if laptop bios has sata controller in IDE or AHCI mode, needs to be in AHCI mode.

Your laptop is pretty old and falls in the time frame where OEMs were locking BIOS compatibility wiht hardware to a whitelist, thus if your device is not on that whitelist it wont support it

Hey there I ended up just getting a new laptop and selling off the parts. I used the ssd in the newer laptop so better performance all around. Thank you for your advice, I did try AHCI it was one of the first things I tried. Also It may have been down to a version of Windows I used which locked to the specific hardware, did a fresh install and it works like a dream.