Vista Ultimate-adding hard drive

[CdLsRN]

I have a Dell XPS 420 desktop with 750 GB, and 4 gb memory. I tried to add
a Seagate 750GB hard drive today. I put it in according to Dell
instructions. went to BIOS setup . the drive was enabled properly. Only with
drive configuration in Auto Detect Raid was it detected. Then only as 40
gb. Re-booted and windows wouldn't boot up. What went wrong here?

 

[Dustin Harper]

You don't want to set it up as a RAID drive. You want it as a regular single
drive. Make sure you plugged it into a standard SATA plug inside the
computer and not a RAID controller. And in the BIOS, see if you can disable
RAID.

If you do want the RAID on the hard drives, you can't set up a RAID array
with one disk already populated with data. You would have to start from
scratch. After the array is setup, you can usually add disks to the array
(or replace a disk in the array). But it must be set up first.

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[Colin Barnhorst]

As Dustin suggests, it sounds like you have connected to a raid controller
instead of a standard controller.

 

[CdLsRN]

I brought this drive back after trying to install it with Dell. They said it
was defective. I got a 1 TB Seagate, SATA, hard drive. It installed easily,
with directions from Dell's owner manual (different from the dell help).

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Regardless, I was referring to the connectors on the mobo (some are raid and
some are solo).