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Can a Seagate 8TB Sata HDD be installed into the Dell XPS 8920 (or 8930) as the secondary drive (or even a third drive), with a 512GB SDD as the boot drive? I keep hearing from Dell chat reps that there's a 2TB limit, although I currently have a 5TB HDD installed as a third HDD in an HP Envy with a

I have an XPS 14 factory shipped with the 500 GB HD and the 32 GB SSD. I believe this SSD was use to speed up the HD under Win8. I have migrated to a WD 500 GB SSD using EaseUS Clone drive function, since the WD version of Acronis would not clone to a USB as needed to do with a laptop. The XPS n

The SSD in my Dell 6430u has an error code 2000-0142 and won't boot up. I get the Dell symbol, windows box, a brief notice of "restoring previous version of windows", black screen and repeat.  I purchased a USB 3.0 to mSata SSD adapter converter and copied the drive.  There is a single di

I have a desk top with a vertical Disc Drive. When I push the button to open it it only opens an inch. Is it suppose to be that way? Backing up a music CD to I tunes the drive sped up so fast and noisy I thought a plane was flying low over the house. I couldn't finish importing the CD. Often when I

Hi there my Dell 7559 Inspiron laptop shows Service tag- Error Code- 2000-0142 Validation- 117106 Hard drive 1- S/N X5TNC1Y8T I want to know why it is out of warranty and what can be done about it, apart from replacing the HDD Thanks.

Hello Dell Community, I have not posted in a long time, however this group has been great helping me in the past. The people who helped me last year may recall that I am a non-computer person (veterinarian by profession) and I do volunteer work in South Africa with male youth (15 - 22 years old) m

I am having forty kinds of fits with this "computer" and need help. The machine is a Dell Inspiron 3452 with a 32GB drive mounted on the motherboard. It's one of those that cannot be upgraded. The 2GB SODIMM RAM can be removed and upgraded to 4GB, but that's it. Windows 10 takes up 1/2 of the hard d

Hello, I'm going to be as thorough and specific as possible with this as to make sure that I get the right answer, so here goes: I have an old Dell Studio 1735 Laptop that I got a little while ago from an e-dump. Along with that, I got several others. I dismantled them all and found a hard drive in

Dell Precision T7500 Hello Friends, Please help for Dell T7500 system. Does Seagate NAS HDD ST2000VN000 2TB SATA drive compatible with this system? If yes, does this drive required formatting to install Windows 7 Pro SP2? Dell Original hard drive was WD2500AAJS!!! Thank you. Best Regards.

Just bought an Inspiron 5675, it didn't come with an SSD so I bought one from amazon. Just wondering if it's better to use a cloning software to move windows to the SSD or do a fresh install of windows? Also will any of this affect my warranty? Any tips or guides would be awesome! Thank you :)

Hello, My XPS 1640 has a WD3200BJKT-75F4T0 ATA hard drive which is failing. I need to replace i but don't know if the hard drive is PATA OR SATA.  Does anyone know? Also, can I repave with an SSD instead of another HDD? Thank you.

My laptop is currently running Win 7 Home Premium with backup data saved for recovery. The HDD is degrading and I am going to replace it with a new one.  I am upgrading to Win 7 Pro in the process.  The question is can I do a data restore to the new OS from the old one or will have to rei

Hello everyone, since my dell xps l502x with 750gb hdd is getting really slow, but the hardware is still very good for a laptop, I want to try to improve it by changing the hdd with a ssd. I bought a Samsung SSD 500GB 850EVO SATA III and a Aukey case to connect it through USB to my laptop. I wou

Hi. I've tried searching for a list of compatible hard drives for my Optiplex GX620 PC but haven't had any luck.  I can't find available refurbished hard drives for the exact serial number of the original one so need to find out if there are alternatives I can use.  The info on the origin

Hi all ,I bought a 500 gb samsung 850 evo Sata 3 for my Inspiron 7559 laptop.The main drive( where windows is installed} is  an M2 ssd. I should have opened up the laptop and checked first..I fear I may have messed up and will have controller issues if I clone the M2 to the 850 evo sata 3. and

Does Dell have a Hard Disk shredder app that I could use on the desktop I replaced with my Dell? If Dell doesn't would there be one that is recommended? It would be nice if Dell did provide something to clean HD of computer being replaced by Dell.

Does this sound like a failing HDD?I have been having problems with 100% disk usage on my Dell Inspiron 15 7000 Series (7537) running Windows 10. When I boot up or wake up the laptop, disk usage is at 100% and the transfer values are completely disproportional to the percentage value (100% used for

I have one sata blu-ray writer drive on my XPS 420. I'm goimg to add a second one, can they be identical, or will that confuse my computer even though they have different Drive letters. I'm thinking it won't be a problem, just checking.

I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 17-7779 and wanted to add a SSD. I'm new to these things and thought I was going to be adding a 1TB SSD to work along side my existing 1TB hard drive. I didn't realize at the time that the 2nd slot for the SSD was an "M.2" rather than a 2.5" type drive. I had no ide

Hi, I have Dell inspiron 5720 i have issue with this error i am able to boot in windows without any problem but when i run diagnostic using from bootmenu using f12 all things pass but hard rive giving me error anyone suggest any solution.