D610

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I have a Dell D610. It is not my main computer but my 3rd or 4th in line of use. I have only one HD it will recognize. All the others do not show up. The ones I want to use have larger capacity. One 80 and one 100. What is the best way to format or get them ready for an OS or upgrade? When I connect them via USB cable to my other two Dells they show up. Need some help from you Dell experts.

ejn63 · Accepted Answer

Try a known-working optical drive -- the common thread is the CD/DVD reader.

emonnie · Answer

I have a lot of those, one or two for each drive.

emonnie · Answer

Whenever I put in a larger HD I get a message like no storage device aka HD available??? I tried an 80 and a 100 and a 160 and none are recognized. Are they formatted incorrectly?  Only the 40 is recognized.  Need some help here.

U2CAMEB4ME · Answer

@emonnie

Stopped in my warehouse today and thought I would do an experiment.

First, there is a limitation of 137GB for the HDD.

D610 BIOS 137GB limit.PNG

I tried a 320GB, 250GB and a 160GB HDD and they all were seen in the BIOS as 137GB.

D610 HDD.PNG

The 120GB HDD was seen as a 120GB HDD.

Dell D610 120GB.PNG

Have you had any success yet???

Regards,

U2

emonnie · Answer

My Bios A06 shows at 'primary hard drive'=none available!!!!

Are my HD's formatted incorrectly? I checked with my other 4 puters and they don't recognize them either, of course most are 64bit Win 10's.

U2CAMEB4ME · Answer

@emonnie  The drives I tested were fresh DOD wiped without being formatted. The BIOS still sees them with no format!!! Sounds like the drives may be bad??? Regards, U2

emonnie · Answer

Under device info///Primary HD=none available.

emonnie · Answer

Have another one coming shortly and will use it to check it out.

emonnie · Answer

I received a new 100gig HD and it shows up on the bios just fine, BUT I cannot get my OS to load from the CD drive. Tried several different CD's. XP pro, 2000pro and Win 7 but none would load up. Set the system to run from CD drive first. The drive lights flash and it spins but just sits there. What do I need to do?

Thanks to all for the help.

emonnie · Answer

That was the problem, bad drive. It is now loading Win 2000 Pro. Will later load Win 7 Pro 32 bit. Had it on the 40Gb drive but no more room.

emonnie · Answer

Update on my problem. I got Win7 home loaded, and it is running but no wireless. Cannot figure what card I have. Tried several drivers but none seem to work. Maybe I do not have a wireless card as its been a while since I used it but my old memory says it does. Where is it located?

DCookTech · Answer

WiFi card is in the bottom left, next to the RAM

emonnie · Answer

All I found was a model coextant I think. No wireless card

Another thing, I connecteda cat cable from the computer and the internet socket but mo internet connection. Need something else to get on iunternet.

TIA

DCookTech · Answer

You found your modem. Sounds like you don't have a wireless card installed. You can see in this system, it's in the bottom left with the two antennas connected to it.

Most likely you need drivers for the integrated NIC. You can try the XP Drivers, or download the Broadcom 57XX Gigabit Ethernet drivers separately.

https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/latitude-d610/drivers

Latitude

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