Not detecting hard drives

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Dell XPS M1330

The Dell XPS M1330 can be identified by its model number: DQPQPD1. The laptop itself has a red outer casing, with a silver keyboard. This model was released on June 26th, 2007.

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Not detecting hard drives

I think something is wrong with the sata interface on this laptop. Tried 4 hard drives and none of them worked. not detected in bios. Can someone help me out?

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i tried updating the bios, resseting everything but nothing worked. I noticed that the harddrive turns off when the bios finishes loading, i had an ssd in there so when i put in a mechanical drive i noticed that it turns off

remygaxpag 의 2016년 1월 26일

That sounds like the connector isn't seated properly. Strip the laptop and verify the connector is seated properly. I've heard of XPS units having that issue.

Paul McDowell 의 2016년 1월 26일

the connector is fine

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i tried updating the bios, resseting everything but nothing worked. I noticed that the harddrive turns off when the bios finishes loading, i had an ssd in there so when i put in a mechanical drive i noticed that it turns off — remygaxpag
That sounds like the connector isn't seated properly. Strip the laptop and verify the connector is seated properly. I've heard of XPS units having that issue. — Paul McDowell

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Did you reset the BIOS back to defaults? It could be drive locked to the old drive. Another option is to update the BIOS to the latest version. I've seen SATA cable failures but port failures are extremely rare unless you're adding and removing drives often and accidentally damaged the interface.

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