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May 10, 2007 at 12:48 PM
chapel.irl

Installing New Sata DVD Drive on XP

by chapel.irl . Updated 18 years, 11 months ago

Hi, first post so be gentle…
Am trying to add a new NEC Sata dvd burner to my Dell Dimension E520 (1gig Ram, 160gig hD, XP Pro, pentium D CPU 2.80gHz, came with one TSST Corp burner already installed). Two spare sata ports on the motherboard. Have connected the power and the sata cable (yes, both ends), but the hardware wizard hasn’t kicked in on booting – basically the pc isn’t seeing the drive. Can anyone tell me where I’m going wrong – only ever changed IDE drives previously. Thanks!

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