I have a 1.5 TB internal hard disk in my XPS 8300 Workstation (purchased in 2012). Now it has only 200 GB of free space. I purchased a duplicate hard drive (ST1500DM003 Seagate 1.5 TB 3.5 inch SATA). Since the new drive is twice as fast (6 Gb/s with a 64 MB Cache) I want to use the new drive as my primary (C:) drive. I will wipe the current C: drive and install it as a second internal drive later.

I tried installing two additional hard drives on my brand new XPS 8700. I tried your suggestion of switching the secure boot options but that did not work for me. I found the solution by accident when i switched from uefi to legacy boot so that i could use my discpart cd to secure erase my ssd. Is there a way to connect a third hard drive to my XPS 8300 Desktop? So far it seems I. Kikokakuki, if you're planning to use your disk drive bay for a 3rd hard drive, then which bay does your disk drive go into? Is there an extra bay. I put the details with photos in another post here: en.community.dell.com/.

I want to clone my C: Drive (which consists of three partitions: 39 MB OEM, 13.25 GB NTFS RECOVERY, and 1383.98 GB NTFS Boot, Crash Dump, Primary). I have the Clonezilla Linux utility, but I am not sure how to copy all three partitions from my C: drive to the new drive and still be able to boot from the new drive. What should I do at this point? Regards, Chuck. I've never used clonezilla, and admittedly, It's been a while since I've had to do anything like this but in my experience.

All of the major HDD vendors have a cloning solution, usually something they license from a company like Acronis (True Image) or Symantec (Ghost) with the restriction that they will only work if one of the hard drives was manufactured by that vendor. Bradley Oscilloscope Calibrator Type 192 Manual Meat. All of these programs that I have used, when presented with a partitioned source disk, would give you options to: 1.

Only clone one partition. Scale all partitions proportionally. (going from 1.5TB to 3TB as 500/500/500GB yields 1000/1000/1000GB, 500/1000 yields 1000/2000,) 3.

Manually set partitions. If you chose option 2, everything should be fine.

You'll download an ISO from the manufacturer and burn it to a CD. (Make sure you use 'Burn Image to disk' a Data disk with the.iso file will not boot your computer) attach both HDD's to the motherboard and power, and boot to the CD from the F12 menu. Once you have cloned the drive, remove the original (Source) drive and verify the new drive will boot. (if the cloning operation was successful it will) At this point you can wipe the old drive, (make sure you wipe the correct one!) re-partition it, and install it as a data drive.

I'd recommend using disk manager to assign the data drive's partition a fixed drive letter, just to insure it won't change if your optical drive goes out or something. I have run into that issue before, with network printers. Generally printers and servers should be given static IP addresses to avoid these issues. In addition to the printer's network address you will need to set default router and DNS Server(s) addreses manually. You can get those from an IPCONFIG /ALL on the command prompt, If you're up to doing that. You'll need to do the same for other computers/devices on the network.

Likely 192.168.1.1 is your router, 192.168.1.2 was your computer, until the lease expired, and then the router gave.2 to the printer. Since it seems obvious that your router is assigning from the bottom of the 192.168.1.x range, setting the printer to 192.168.1.254 probably makes the most sense. (Dynamic and static IP addresses can coexist on one network, as long as no address is assigned twice.

I've never used clonezilla, and admittedly, It's been a while since I've had to do anything like this but in my experience. All of the major HDD vendors have a cloning solution, usually something they license from a company like Acronis (True Image) or Symantec (Ghost) with the restriction that they will only work if one of the hard drives was manufactured by that vendor. All of these programs that I have used, when presented with a partitioned source disk, would give you options to: 1. Only clone one partition. Scale all partitions proportionally. (going from 1.5TB to 3TB as 500/500/500GB yields 1000/1000/1000GB, 500/1000 yields 1000/2000,) 3. Manually set partitions.

If you chose option 2, everything should be fine. You'll download an ISO from the manufacturer and burn it to a CD. (Make sure you use 'Burn Image to disk' a Data disk with the.iso file will not boot your computer) attach both HDD's to the motherboard and power, and boot to the CD from the F12 menu. Once you have cloned the drive, remove the original (Source) drive and verify the new drive will boot. (if the cloning operation was successful it will) At this point you can wipe the old drive, (make sure you wipe the correct one!) re-partition it, and install it as a data drive. I'd recommend using disk manager to assign the data drive's partition a fixed drive letter, just to insure it won't change if your optical drive goes out or something. To continue: After replacing my hard drive with a faster clone I was unable to print via the WiFi connection through my local router.

After researching and trying several different things (including removing and re-installing the printer using the HP Officejet Pro 8600 series CD) I came across an item in the HP Support Forums on '.no possibility to configure Port'. I finally resolved the problem by updating the IP Address from the Utilities selection of the HP Officejet Pro 8600 software. Somehow, IP address 192.168.1.3 got changed to 192.168.1.2. So, all is well for now. I bolted the old Hard Drive under the new one in the chassis.

I must order a SATA III cable to be able to use the old hard drive as a secondary hard drive (doubling my internal Hard Drive capacity to 3 TB). I have run into that issue before, with network printers. Generally printers and servers should be given static IP addresses to avoid these issues. In addition to the printer's network address you will need to set default router and DNS Server(s) addreses manually.

You can get those from an IPCONFIG /ALL on the command prompt, If you're up to doing that. You'll need to do the same for other computers/devices on the network. Likely 192.168.1.1 is your router, 192.168.1.2 was your computer, until the lease expired, and then the router gave.2 to the printer.

Since it seems obvious that your router is assigning from the bottom of the 192.168.1.x range, setting the printer to 192.168.1.254 probably makes the most sense. (Dynamic and static IP addresses can coexist on one network, as long as no address is assigned twice.

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Hello everyone, just recently the hard drive from my Dell XPS 8300 failed so I went and got a brand new sata hard drive plus windows 7 OEM. After replacing the hard drive and putting the windows cd in the driver, I booted up my computer and waitted for the install to go through. However depressingly to find out, my windows popped up an error. Here's the things that I've tried: >Switching cd/dvd to boot 1 >Hard-reset the cmos by removing battery >Switched both sata ports of the DVD drive and hard drive to different ports. The only things connected is my keyboard, monitor, and power supply.

I'm pretty sure the dvd drive is working since installation bar stopped around 15% of it. Download Nas Illmatic Online Free. Hard Drive is brand new, don't think it's faulty, but could be?

I'm pretty much at a lost here, I've looked all over google and even asked my tech savvy brother-in-law but have yet find a solution. If there's anyone here who could help me out I would greatly appreciate it. It's possible. You can create an iso from the DVD and use to create a bootable USB flash drive to do the install. Download and during the install be sure to opt out of any optional programs it offers. Place the DVD in the burner. Run Imgburn and file.

Use slow speed read and write speed like 4X if possible Run Rufus. In the first dropdown box select your flash drive.

Select MBR for a partition scheme. Where is shows Freedos in the dropdown box select image file.

Click the folder icon and browse to the iso file you created. Backup any data on the flash drive as it will be formatted. Some computers have a boot menu you can access. Attach the USB flash drive and then use the boot menu to select it. Hopefully the install will work using USB. Is this a Windows 7 SP1 install disk?

Correct, I'm currently on my phone. I used to have a usb internet adapter but it's been at least two years since I've used it, and I'm not sure where it's. I'll see if I can find it some how, just not even sure if my old tower's dvd drive is functional Edit: a friend of mines says he has a bootable usb drive, I'll see if I can burn an iso on it on his computer once he returns home from his trip and get back to you on how installing with an iso goes. Edited by hamluis, 07 September 2015 - 08:30 AM. I am not sure what is going on with the optical drive but you should not have a problem booting from a USB flash drive.

When you friend said he had a bootable USB drive were they talking about a USB optical drive? I was suggesting a USB flash drive you would make bootable. Just a note: If the computer has UEFI instead of legacy BIOS then a WIndows 7 disk will not boot. I had to modify a WIndows 7 install disk to boot from a UEFI computer but if you use Rufus it should boot the USB as it is compatible with UEFI. If Rufus does not work take a look at video.

I used the method to create a bootable Windows 7 DVD. Okay, I've managed to get windows 7 to sucessfully load using usb! But now there's another problem that arose when it loaded. After clicking install now, I was given the option whether to click upgrade or custom. When I click upgrade it states 'the computer started using the windows installation disc' and when I select custom and select my new hard drive, it says that the 'Setup was unable to create a new system partition or locate an existing system partition' even though I click on new and make one.

I even pressed delete on the main one, but it would still say that I started installation with a windows disk Edit: Found this while on google, not sure if it will work for me, but fixed the topic starter's situation, so I'm going to try it. 'Set your PC to boot from DVD via BIOS Put the DVD in and let it load until you get to this screen: Once at this screen, press: (SHIFT+F10) to get a CMD window MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THE DRIVE YOUR INSTALLING WINDOWS TO NOT ANOTHER. In the CMD window, type in Each Command and Press Key as follows: DiskPart list disk select disk 0 clean create partition primary align=1024 format fs=ntfs (Will Take a While) assign active exit exit After it completes, exit the INSTALL COMPLETELY and reboot. Once you are back in, go about installing Windows just DO NOT ALLOW Windows to create a new partition, use the only one there.

Windows will now install Hope this helps!' Edited by Hakezu, 07 September 2015 - 07:06 PM. From doing a search I believe this computer is UEFI. If it is, then the above commands will not work because UEFI needs a GPT formatted disk that has a minimum of three partitions. Windows is supposed to create these automatically. For a UEFI install see page. On an non UEFI computer with a legacy BIOS Windows should create the partitions automatically when you press next without the need to create any partition.

If there are no partitions shown on the drive simply press next. See step by step guide. Edited by JohnC_21, 07 September 2015 - 07:29 PM. So I just tried the method I mentioned above, which changed my disk type to system, however I'm still getting the 'unable to create a new system partition or locate' error.

I was looking at the UEFI guide and it states on step 4 I should pick DVD or UEFI usb but I don't see a uefi usb as an option in the boot option. Should I delete the partitioned disk that was changed with the command prompt? Or should I try something while it's there? I'm honestly just thinking about exchanging this hard drive with a new one just to see if that does something. Appreciate all the help given so far! Edited by Hakezu, 07 September 2015 - 09:38 PM.