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Need help with upgrade from HDD to SSD....

Here is my current system:Windows 7Dell Studio XPS 8000Intel i5 CPU 7506 GB Ram1 TB Hard Drive:  ST31000528ASI would like to replace the Hard Drive with a Samsung Evo 1 TB SSD for better speed and...

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Update Hard Drive Size

What is the largest hard drive i can put in a dell d540 [Amin Note: Service Tag Edited per TOU policy] 

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Dell R730/PERC H730 - Change RAID 1 to a RAID 0 with no data loss

I have a new Dell PowerEdge R730 with PERC H730 mini controller with two SAS hard drives, idrac8 and OpenManage Server Admin 8.3 installed and configured on the OS for remote access. During the initial...

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Installing new scsi SAS drive to my NTFS file system setup - Now my PC wont boot

[:S]Can anyone helpI recently installed a scsi/SAS seagate drive to my Dell Precision t7500 PC which was running windows 10 64 bit. I had three ATA drives ie. disk 0, disk 1 and disk 2.When I installed...

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USB 3.0 Device Not Recognized

I have an issue connecting a USB 3.0 device to my dell Inspiron laptop with Windows 10. This is the first time I have tried to plug in a USB 3.0 device (All USB 2.0 Devices have worked perfectly) on...

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New Internal Hard Missing

I added two new Seagate Desktop 3.5 inch 2TB 7200 RPM 64MB 6GB/S Internal SATA Drives to my Dell XPS 8700 desktop.The BIOS seems to recognise the original 2TB drive as well as the two new ones. In...

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Missing cd/dvd software/driver on Dell Inspiron 660s

Tried using it today for the first time in quite sometime. It would not open. Got it open manually but it doesn't work. Can't not see it at all. Cannot find it at all in devices. Went to support but...

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Adding another SATA CDROM to XPS 8900

I have added an additional SATA CDROM to my 8900.  They both work but I am curious about which SATA ports on the motherboard are optimum for the CDROMs to plug into.  Thanks.

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Front USB ports no working or recognized

On my Dell Inspiron 620, the two front USB ports (F and G drives) have stopped working. My external hard drive is in F and will not connect and I have tried I Pods and Memory sticks in G and F and the...

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HDD FAILURE

I have an inspiron 15 laptop.Recently one day the system hanged and after about 20 minutes, I forced-shutdown it by pressing power button.After that it showed checking media failed, unabe to find boot...

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Aggiunta dischi Dell Poweredge T610

Buongiorno,vista prossima installazione di un sistema gestionale, sto cercando dischi SAS da 900 Gb da installare sul nostro server. Mi confermato che i dischi DELL con numero di serie 400-22932 sono...

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How to install a new SSD in a Dell Precision T3600

We spent a few hours reading posts and trying different things to get the T3600 to see the SSD drive from the windows installation disk so I wanted to share what we found that worked..Most T3600's have...

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Inspiron 7720 SSD boot issues

Hello,I've got an Inspiron 17R SE–7720 and I decided to add an SSD to it and do a clean Windows installation. I took out the original HDD so that Windows would be installed completely on the SSD....

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Cannot boot to new Toshiba OCZ NVM After Installing Windows 10

I have a Dell Optiplex 9020 running the latest A16 BIOS. System came with 2 SATA HD's. I unplugged the original SATA drives, then I installed new Toshiba NVM 512g drive into the 16x slot and installed...

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Adding a SSD

Hi I am interested in adding a SSD to an Inspiron 17-5759 laptop which has a 1TB HD. Would I have to remove the HD to fit a SSD?

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poweredge R510 HD failure

Hallo.I need a new HD to change another that fail at boot.the server service tag is 8J64K4Jthe HD is SAS 450 Gb 15K and this one is in mirroring with another .The server is out of warranty. so i have...

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How to Install fresh Windows 8.1 on inspiron 3000 14 model 3452

I prefer the Windows 8.1 Start Menu over Windows 10 and also enjoy the lack of ads in the start menu, so I wanted to install Windows 8.1 on my new Dell Laptop.When I attempted to do a fresh install...

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Problems getting refurbished XPS 15 SSD working with RST

Hi,I've just purchased a refurbished (by Dell) XPS 15 with a 32GB SSD and 1TB HDD. The problem I have is that when I install anything, it gets installed to the SSD, which obviously becomes full very...

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Optical drive not detected

Hi guysI'm having dell inspiron 3521, its all working fine but 3 days before may be 4 days my laptop stops detecting ODD. I did all as instructed in the following link but noting happens. I have also...

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cannot insert normal CD in the cd drive?!!

hello all i just recently bought a brand new laptop dell inspiron model 3558 with intel core i5 procesor and preinstalled linux ubuntu 14.04 ..the only thing i cannot seem to figure out is how to...

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