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2nd Drive on XPS 17 (9700)
I have an XPS 17 (9700) which I bought a few months ago with a single drive. Last week, I bought a 2nd drive (also from Dell) which was installed by a Dell Partner technician. For some reason, the technician first removed the original drive and, unfortunately, I wasn’t paying enough attention to know whether that drive was in slot 1 or slot 2. So he did what would be pretty standard, or at least was so with older 17” Dell laptops and put the old drive in slot 1, being the drive with the OS installed on it, and put the new drive in slot 2. He then successfully ran all the diagnostics. The XPS booted fine but the new drive became the new Disk 0 while the old OS C-Drive became the new Disk 1. I would like to correct this before going any further. How should I go about it?
Other question: what should the disk configuration be, RAID, AHCI or Disabled and why?
I appreciate any help you can give me.
Thank you
Waguih B
NikolayT
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September 26th, 2021 10:00
I got the same issue. My OS 2TB SSD became Disk 1 and 4TB for media files is currently Disk 0.
Doesn't effect the system booting or performance, but just annoying.
NikolayT
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September 26th, 2021 20:00
I got it fixed and the solution is quite simple.
1. Reboot the PC and enter the BIOS (F2).
2. Go to Storage and disable SSD-2.
3. Save the changes and boot up the Windows.
4. Check that there's only OS (C:) drive visible and it's detected as Disk (0).
5. If it's like this, then happy days. Reboot the system again, enter BIOS and enable the SSD-2 drive back, save the settings.
6. When you boot up the windows it become Disk 1 and the OS will remain as Disk 0.
Hope it helps! Some pic below.
p.s. Obviously the OS drive has to be phisically installed to SSD-1 slot and the second drive to SSD-2.
1. Disable the second SSD-2 in BIOS
2. Second SSD disabled.
3. OS - Disk 0, Media drive 0 Disk 1.
zzscarab
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September 29th, 2021 23:00
This problem was solved similar to another post.