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" <c.barnhorst@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:553D433E-0AB7-4969-98ED-02B5BE969D13@xxxxxx
Quote:
> As Dustin suggests, it sounds like you have connected to a raid controller
> instead of a standard controller.
>
> "CdLsRN" <NOSPAM@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:epQUu3a2IHA.5512@xxxxxx Quote:
>>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?
>