Dell OptiPlex GX280 PC Desktop "difference sata hdd hard drive" Questions

SATA ports on the motherboard may be bad or the cables might be loose. reseating the cables should fix it make sure they are connecetd properly. if none of the hdd is getting getting detected, its the

...hdd in,afther a start will the bios go to a routine to scan the ide ports. you need to use a format disk and clean and reformat your disk first before you try and load the operating system. Then you ...

...hdd required a IDE to SATA adapter for the motherboard(AMD 690V) Any advice or assistence would be more than appreciated! Thank You! Disconnect the hard drive and dvd from the motherboard Power on If ...

) You can buy any HDD/SSD as long as it has some sort of SATA connection.  The differences between SATA, SATAII, SATAIII are mainly speeds.  But all will be recognized by your machine.  

...hdd on Dimension 4700 I already have two SATA hard drives, and i want to have one more PATA hard drive installed. Can i use CD/dvd IDE connections ?, Will there be any performance issues ?, Please ...

HDD with an operating system already on it then you will have to repair windows as its a change in hardware. If you cant get the bios to see the drive then the motherboard has an IDE or Sata connector

SATA HDD Hello, I bought a second-hand HP Compaq d530 PC with a PATA HDD already installed. I pluged a SATA HDD as well, but it doesn't find it. I think I've enabled all necessary BIOS settings, but I

...power supply sometimes that will do the trick, you can also try a different data cable whether it be SATA or IDE. If it still does not find it, it is possible your HDD is going bad. Hope this ...

hdd 250gb sata for xps 600 the pc can't recognized it The sata connector was probably disabled in the BIOS to prevent you from getting a missing drive error on startup before this was installed. Press

...difference between standard IDE and SATA in that the standard IDE interface uses a wide flat ribbon cable to connect to the drive. SATA uses a small thin cable as shon in the following link: ...