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August 2nd, 2016 16:00
(Redirected) Hard drive failure in my desktop XPS 8500
The Seagate 2 TB hard drive has failed in my XPS 8500 desktop. I have a recovery usb drive and an image backup on an external drive. I purchased a Western Digital 1 TB blue drive that I have installed in the computer. When I start to install the image I created, Windows comes back and tells me the drive is to small. The original drive was set up as a Raid drive and the new WD drive shows as a non Raid drive. Will this cause a problem? Also, my image is only 197 GB which is way smaller than the new drive capacity. When I'm in the bios, it does show the WD drive on SATA 0 port 0 but it also shows a Samsung SSD 32 gb on MSATA 1 port 1 set up as a Raid drive. Please help.
Thank you,
Caveman_Fence
sugarbear18
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August 2nd, 2016 20:00
Hi Caveman_Fence,
Please repost this in the Disk Drive Forum for help.
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/