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Hard drive upgrade
Hi all,
I have a dell dimenion 8300 thats about 8 years old.
I have just bought a new hard drive, going from 120GB to 500GB. The new drive is a SATA and it came with a SATA to IDE convertor kit.
I have connected it all up, and when go into the bios under drive config - primary drive, it tells me that it is 500GB, but when i reboot ready to put windows on, it stops and says primary drive 1 not found.
Any ideas of what i'm doing wrong
Cheers
MB
ieee488
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November 25th, 2011 14:00
First, those SATA to IDE converter kits are problematic. There was someone here who tried to use one and he had no luck.
Second, due to possible BIOS restrictions, you may need to partition the hard drive such that the first partition is less than 137GB; otherwise Windows becomes unstable.
You really should have spent the money on a IDE drive instead - Newegg sells them - and save yourself future aggravations.
Mackyboy
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November 26th, 2011 03:00
Thanks for your advice, looks like that was a waste of money
MB
ieee488
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November 26th, 2011 15:00
Buy a USB enclosure and make it an external hard drive.
rdunnill
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December 4th, 2011 00:00
I have a SATA hard drive and a SATA Blu-ray drive in an aging 2350, connected via a reflashed Syba 150R two-channel PCI SATA card. (The card is sold flashed for RAID, but Silicon Image has an IDE BIOS and flashing utility free to download.)