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Unless Dell has the upgrade for the bios to include the larger hardware you are going to be in trouble, I would go online to Dell and check for upgrades to your model if they still support it. The other option is contact customer and technical support to see it they can give you a alternative solution.
1. Decide which hard drive will be the startup (master) drive. If this drive was the startup drive previously, or if it's a new hard drive, then the master drive designation will already be set. 2. To change the designation of a new drive to be a slave drive, skip to step 4. 3. To change the designation of an existing drive to be a slave drive: Turn off the computer, unplug the power cord, remove the drive from its drive bay, and disconnect the drive from its power cord and ribbon cable. 4. Check the hard drive documentation or the label on the drive itself for master/slave jumper settings. 5. Find the jumpers on the circuit board of the drive. Jumpers are plastic plugs with metal sleeves that form a circuit between a pair of pins. Jumper locations are labeled on the board with a J followed by a number (such as J20). 6. Use tweezers or very small pliers to remove or reposition the jumpers to the configuration shown in the documentation or on the disk label.
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if your unit only uses one cord ( USB ) for data and power , the unit side may be damaged , the life span of the USB hubs and the cords that use them are not known sometimes for no reason whatsoever they stop working , and is the most common reason for hard ware to malfunction , and it is possible to replace the outer closure , remove the HDD you can find a suitable replacement closure at radio shack for 40$ that allows you to hook up a 2.5 SATA HDD to any computer Gigaware makes a very nice portable model , if the HDD works then you have just trouble shot the closure to the HDD .
u don't need to change hdd's u do one thing put yr 250gb hdd in master or 30 gb hdd in slave or secoundary hdd then go to bios settig>advacne opction or find first boot option then u chouse which os u wan to run if u run vista then select 250gb or xp to select 30gb.. it's help u..
upgrade you firmware for that. if alo possible, look for a latest friver for your cam. the problem usually dissappears when you try to reinstall the drivers for that.
there is a problem in your operating system, if you are using winxp, try to run this by clicking the repair option in this way this will replace the corrupted files of o.s.
Borrowing the Hitachi dvd/hdd to video a wedding this weekend. The dvd disks i've tried won't play on any of my computers or dvd players. help please! thanks a bunch
is this an internal drive or an external, tower, laptop?
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