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January 29th, 2019, 04:57 AM
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January 29th, 2019, 05:07 AM
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Does the BIOS see the SSD? You might need to enable the SATA port.
What happens to the HDD if you unplug the SSD?
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January 29th, 2019, 11:12 AM
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Post the make and model of the motherboard and model of the SSD.
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January 29th, 2019, 11:43 AM
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run diskmgmt.msc does the hard drive show up there? Does it show correct size for your other hard drive?
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January 29th, 2019, 05:20 PM
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Will reboot to try to get some of this info...
Originally Posted by jdc2000
Post the make and model of the motherboard and model of the SSD.
OS Name Microsoft Windows 8.1
Version 6.3.9600 Build 9600
Other OS Description Not Available
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name WINDOWS-BCNBPQC
System Manufacturer Dell Inc.
System Model XPS 8700
System Type x64-based PC
System SKU XPS 8700
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)
BIOS Version/Date Dell Inc. A03, 8/2/2013
SMBIOS Version 2.7
Embedded Controller Version 255.255
BIOS Mode UEFI
BaseBoard Manufacturer Dell Inc.
BaseBoard Model Not Available
BaseBoard Name Base Board
Platform Role Desktop
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January 29th, 2019, 06:45 PM
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January 29th, 2019, 07:08 PM
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Ok great, I think we can mark this as resolved.
I looked in BIOS and it was there. Then after a restart the old HDD magically had all it's spaced used again (ok? weird but ok). Then I went with the Kingston tool to try to update the firmware since updating drivers in other places didnt work. There was some mention of having to change some AHCI thing to something else, which I did, and then the Kingston tools was able to see that a SSD was plugged in. Updated yay! Then, I did that disk management stuff that the internet basically said to try first, but this time the drive was there. Now, I partitioned it basically going through the walkthrough and there it is, a new drive on the THIS PC screen. It seems to work alright now.
No doubt SSD tech has come a long way in 5 years. Now I just have to decide what to use it for? It's an old drive, in fact the first one failed on a newb CPU build I tried years ago. This was the replacement and I just had it in a bin for years. Should I be worried that this is some old discontinued model?
The actual drive is from 2013 and the model is: SVP200 S37A / 60G
https://www.kingston.com/us/support/...model=svp200s3
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January 29th, 2019, 07:38 PM
#8
Good to hear you got it working.
Should I be worried that this is some old discontinued model?
I wouldn't worry about that. New models are usually only "new" for about 3 months anyway. It should work fine. Of course, 64 GB isn't much space these days.
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January 29th, 2019, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by jdc2000
Good to hear you got it working.
I wouldn't worry about that. New models are usually only "new" for about 3 months anyway. It should work fine. Of course, 64 GB isn't much space these days.
For sure!
It was supposed to be just for maybe the OS and a game or 2 to load faster.
Interestingly, I loaded a game onto it and it doesnt seem to load any faster?
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January 29th, 2019, 08:44 PM
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I'd think it would depend on how disk intensive the game is. What game are you talking about?
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