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#1
5th Mar 2008, 20:53
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| I have a dell 4550 that I am trying to upgrade with a 500gb sata hard drive and a sata dvd burner using a pci host card. I have the hardware in the computer but can not get it to boot. Dose anyone have any ideas THANKS Paul |
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#2
5th Mar 2008, 22:51
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| What do you mean 'does not boot'? Does not start, does not POST, does not get to Windows..?
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#3
6th Mar 2008, 05:06
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| I am wanting to us the new sata drive as the main drive and I am trying to load window on it I can get it to the screen that says checking hardware configuration but that is it. |
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#4
6th Mar 2008, 20:08
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| try re installing your os on it? |
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#5
8th Mar 2008, 11:16
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| while trying to install the os it says Setup was unable to format the partition |
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8th Mar 2008, 12:22
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| Is the disk brand new? Do you have another computer where you could format it?
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9th Mar 2008, 14:31
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| Yes it is a new disc and I have tried to hook up the old hard drive with the os already on it and tried to format it that way with and the computer see the dics says it is healthy but with it hooked up the computer is to slow to do anything |
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#8
10th Mar 2008, 03:50
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| I think I found it my pci-sata card only supports sata 1 and the hard drive is sata 2. Dose any one know if a sata two controller will work on a 2003 dell 4550? I jumped 5-6 on the drive that is suppose to slow the drive down to 150MB/s and still didn,t format is the card the problem? |
