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Replace toasted HD on my Dell Inspiron 8200 with a new Samsung HM121HC but ended with "Primary HD Drive not found". Samsung does not provide any drivers. I can only set the BIOS on "minimum", "automatic" or "thorough". How do I get into the Bios manually to set the hard drive? Thanks for any help.
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You may find that either the cable is not connected properly or is faulty, or the worse case the mother board has problems (driver, chips, breakages) May even be a power supply problem, as the power supply has many output points and different voltages that the HDD power out may have blown. If it has then the rest of the system will appear to be ok. So first off, check the cables connections on the motherboard, and look for any breaks in the cables, and if you have a power meter of some sort check the power connection, or plug in another power connector, the ones with the same end are generally the same power outputs. The ribbon cable for the HDD should have 2 sockets for HDDs and you must connect your HDD to the end one.
(if both drives on the same cable):
Your boot drive goes at the end of the primary data cable.
Your second drive goes on the middle connection of the same cable.
The red stripe on the data cable needs to be closest to the power connection (red stripe to pin 1).
The jumper on the boot drive set to master.
The jumper on the second drive set to slave.
Look in the BIOS to make sure it sees both harddrives.
Boot the system.. it will need to be partitioned and formatted if not already..
Regards..
Could be a tough one. Can you get into the bios ( F8 or F10 ) while booting and check if the HDD is being recognised in the first place ? If it recognises, then check for Boot sequence. I would also suggest to try the Recovery CD that came along with computer.
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