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Greetings, This would seem to be such a simple swap operation to replace the slow 1TB drive with a much faster 500GB SSD, but something is missing. Using the MS Windows 10 Pro installation CD, the install process appears to successfully run to completion with no problems reported.  However, a

Xps 8920 i5: has a 32GB M.2 SSD capacity is insufficient as the boot – O/S, therefore the system disc is the 2TB spinning disc? If that’s the case can I clone the 2TB boot disk to a 2TB EVO SSD? And replace spinner with cloned 2TB SSD for the increased performance offered. Refit the spinner in a dr

Can anyone recommend a ripping software for me to rip a DVD? Thanks:emotion-1:

How can I add a second 3.5" internal drive on this? It appears that there's a bay for 3.5" drives, with a single HD and a DVD-RW drive, and a second (empty) bay for 2.5" drives.  Is this PC really only meant to have 2.5" drives added?

Good evening, More of a question regarding the future of Enterprise RAID controllers. Does anyone know if a firmware upgrade is in the works to have H710 & H810 raid controllers be compatible with 512e/4Kn block sizes? Currently only 13th Generation raid controllers support this. Thanks for

Hi, the computer's hard drive is corrupt (dell diagnostic) and must be replaced. Dell sends replacement drive....it has a sticker that says "Imaged" What does that mean? Also, where are step by step instructions for making this swap?

On a 14 year old Dell Dimension 2400 that I am fixing, I couldn't get the OS to boot (XP). I ran the "Cannot Boot the OS" test on it, and it failed on the IDE tests. Test Results: Fail Error Code 0F00:0240 Msg: Block 54752: Address mark not found or media error. Test Results: Fail Error Code 0F

Hi I need a help. While starting my laptop I found that its not rebooting windows. Then I ran f12 and found that Error code 2000-0151,Validation 110463, incorrect status=32 .So what does that mean. Is there is problem with my Hard disk.? I really need help

I recently dropped my laptop and i get the following error on start up No Internal Hard Disk Drive found No bootable devices I thought my hard disk failed and I bought a new solid state HDD and replaced it, but I still get the same error upon start up, its puzzling because when i run the PSA it d

Hello, Can anyone help how to fix this battery problem? "Your battery has experienced permanent failure and needs to be replaced" It is not charging currently and red light is keep blinking. I have also updated BIOS and other drivers to latest versions from dell website, but nothing fixed it's

I took back cover off to check network card after reinstalling operating system that had no drivers. I was instructed to take hard drive out and put it back in and now get this error "PXE-E61 Media Test Failure".  Any trick to putting the hard drive back in.....seemed simple enough?  Shou

I recently bought an XPS tower special edition. I went to add a second disk to it today and found that there were no free data cables (if that is the right term).  Each drive bay had a power plug near it but no data.  There were 2 data cables leaving the mother board.  One to the pri

I am upgrading my dell laptop's hard drive since the last one just died. How do i obtain a copy of WINDOWS to install to me new hard drive? Thank you. [Service Tag: Express Service Code: ] Peter S

I would like to boot off my secondary SSD since I believe my primary has been intentionally infected by a virus. I can access boot sequence (restart, F2...), but a little apprehensive to change. Not sure what to check/uncheck in the left column, and select in the right column.  I see the same

Hi, I have been happily working with a Vostro v131 for some time, but now I want to upgrade it with a new SSD. Which one can I use? Checking here, http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/19426757 it seems one solution is use the Samsung PM830. However this SSD seems to

So i accidentally uninstalled cyberlink on my laptop, any way to restore the program? thanks for your help!

Please answer this question for me. Why in the world is the open M.2 slot in the 17-7779 specifically designed to take an ‘M’ keyed 2280 SSD when it doesn’t support PCIe and NVMe which are the only ‘M’ keyed 2280 SSD’s on the market? From what I can see, an M.2 SATA SSD the dual ‘B’ &

I recently purchased and installed a dell 256 gb ata ssd. Upon being installed in my pc (desktop) my computer will not detect it. either in hard drives or device manager. A friend and I checked multiple times that it was installed correctly, sata cables plugged in etc. and Nothing. I'd like to be a

So i'm trying to reinstall windows 10 on this computer. I wiped the hdd because I was having the problem where the pc would shut down after a few seconds of being switched on. Didn't find a solution for that so I thought I might as well wipe the hdd if I can't use it anymore. Did that but now the p

Drive tray comes out, and stays out all the time after start up. Push in and it closes, but pops out again. Tray does close on shut down. Will not stay closed long enough to read a CD/DVD. Never had much luck with it Trying to burn a DVD, no matter what brand or type of disk. Is a recurring proble