{"id":193,"date":"2012-02-07T18:37:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tek-files.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2012-02-07T18:37:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T02:37:21","slug":"sata-2-and-3-not-working-on-a-dell-inspiron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"SATA 2 and 3 not working on a Dell Inspiron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I went to install a second hard drive into a Dell Inspiron 531. It currently had an existing hard drive and DVD drive already installed on SATA 0 and SATA 1. I figured simple enough, add a SATA cable to SATA 2, plug the other end into the new drive, plug in the power and all would be happy. To my surprise, I checked the BIOS and it showed only the devices in SATA 0 and 1. What should have been easy was now going to require some Googling. In searching around a came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.automationmedia.com\/automationforum\/showthread.php?t=2311\" target=_blank>this form post.<\/a> Half way down posted by someone named HP_HP was the answer, SATA 2 and 3 are not enabled by default. The steps HP_HP gave <\/p>\n<p>Go to BIOS<br \/>\nSelect Advanced,<br \/>\nSelect Seriel-ATA Configuration, hit enter<br \/>\nlook on SATA Controller, I am sure it would be SATA-1 on your setting.<br \/>\nChange it to SATA-1+2<br \/>\nSave and Exit..<\/p>\n<p>worked like a charm. After changing the setting, the drive was detected and worked with out any further problems.<\/p>\n<div class=\"thanks_button_div\" \n                  style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><div id=\"thanksButtonDiv_193_1\" style=\"background-image:url(http:\/\/tek-files.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/thanks-you-counter-button\/images\/thanks_compact_blue1.png); background-repeat:no-repeat; float: left; display: inline;\"\n                onmouseover=\"javascript:thankYouChangeButtonImage('thanksButtonDiv_193_1', true);\" \n                onmouseout=\"javascript:thankYouChangeButtonImage('thanksButtonDiv_193_1', false);\"\n                onclick=\"javascript:thankYouChangeButtonImage('thanksButtonDiv_193_1', false);\" >\n                <input type=\"button\" onclick=\"thankYouButtonClick(193, 'You left &ldquo;Thanks&rdquo; already for this post')\" value=\"Like 0\"\n                  class=\"thanks_button thanks_compact thanks_blue1\"\n                  style=\"  font-family: Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal;; color:#ffffff;\"\n                  id=\"thanksButton_193_1\" title=\"Click to leave &ldquo;Thanks&rdquo; for this post\"\/>\n             <\/div><div id=\"ajax_loader_193_1\" style=\"display:inline;visibility: hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ajax loader\" src=\"http:\/\/tek-files.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/thanks-you-counter-button\/images\/ajax-loader.gif\" \/><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I went to install a second hard drive into a Dell Inspiron 531. It currently had an existing hard drive and DVD drive already installed on SATA 0 and SATA 1. I figured simple enough, add a SATA cable &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/?p=193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,36,5,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dell","category-desktop","category-hardware","category-sata"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tek-files.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}