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‎01-12-2021 12:56 PM

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Product: Pavillion cw-1511sa
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi everyone,

I have bought a new hard drive to put into the laptop (primary drive is an M2 drive but i want to increase storage).

I have bought a cable, and i'm plugging it into the port on the board labelled HDD, but after booting up the drive isn't spinning up and isn't recognised in Windows.

Has anybody done the same and got it to work - am i missing a trick?

And has anyone bought a caddy for the drive? The one i got is too big 😞

 

Thanks in advance

Rob

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‎03-11-2021 05:28 AM

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Hi everyone,

So i did a lot more searching and eventually found this cable - which looks the same, but must be subtly different ...

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07TJRL6NK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

And the drive is now working 🙂

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‎01-12-2021 02:28 PM

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@robg11 wrote:

...  but after booting up the drive isn't spinning up and isn't recognised in Windows.

@robg11 

 

No power. Definitely something to do with the cable. Did you buy the right part # ? What is it ? From where ?

 

Regards.

BH
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‎01-13-2021 08:45 AM

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Hi @banhien

Really appreciate your response - this is the cable i bought/used ...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07HWQ4N32/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Hopefully the right one?

I need a bracket/caddy for the drive too - any suggestions?

Thanks

Rob

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‎01-15-2021 09:05 AM

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Does anyone have any ideas?

@banhien did you see my update?

 

Thanks

Rob

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‎03-11-2021 05:28 AM

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Hi everyone,

So i did a lot more searching and eventually found this cable - which looks the same, but must be subtly different ...

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07TJRL6NK/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

And the drive is now working 🙂

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‎03-11-2021 05:28 AM

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Just need to find a bracket/caddy for the drive now

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