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August 2nd, 2014 09:00
Installing a second disk drive in XPS8500 with SSD and one 2To Seagate Disk
Hi everybody,
I try to install a second disk fully functional (tested on another PC) on my Dell XPS8500 / SSD / 2To Drive / Windows 8.
The drive is seen in bios (RAID/AHCI) but not in windows (no letter).
However in Disk Management tool i see my inital 2To disk as "drive 0/in line" so all is ok but the second disk is marked "drive 1/unknown/not initialized/not allocated" and a windows ask me to initialize the disk with 2 options :
1 - Boot sector
2 - GPT
I don't want to boot on it so i choose Option 2 : GPT, then button OK, and i have a message "CRC error" .
In system events : 4 errors :
one id 10/ VDS : cannot write boot code when drive is on cleaning operation Error Code : 80070017@02070008
and three id 7 : \Device\Harddisk1\DR1 have defects block.
I must precise that this second disk,i repeat fully functionnal, was used on my old RAID 0 system.
If anyone have an idea, thanks for any reply.
Hlag
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August 7th, 2014 06:00
I' ve resolved my problem : see my post http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/disk-drives/f/3534/t/19594151.aspx
Mary G
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August 2nd, 2014 09:00
Windows will not see the drive until it's formatted or reformatted. Format or reformat it in Disk Management. Not allocated means it is not formatted correctly. Then you can assign a letter.
Hlag
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August 2nd, 2014 11:00
Hello, thanks for the reply.
I said : "
windows ask me to initialize the disk with 2 options :
1 - Boot sector
2 - GPT
I don't want to boot on it so i choose Option 2 : GPT, then button OK, and i have a message "CRC error" .
So i have no mean to format it !
I must precise 2 things :
1) unlike i said before my bios is RAID configured. If i configure AHCI it doesn't boot.
2) i have SSD with UEFI Windows boot .
Perhaps UEFI is lost when i plug my 2nd drive because it was originaly a RAID0 drive (under Windows 7).
ejn63
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August 3rd, 2014 08:00
Run a diagnostic (either Dell or the manufacturer of the drive) on the drive. If it's showing bad blocks, replace it - it's faulty.
Hlag
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August 4th, 2014 04:00
The diagnostocs are ok (with Seatools / DOS version) ....
I think because of the RAID0 bios configuration UEFI thinks this second drive is for RAID0 and as i said my first bootable drive is 2To and the second drive (i want add) is 1To and Disk Manager sees it with 2To.
I can't be sure of that but this is my conclusion. So what must i do ?