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‎04-26-2016 02:51 AM

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I bought an HDD caddy to mount an expansion disk on my HP 6450b (Win 10) by using the SATA connection of DVD ROM.

First HDD with SO is a WD 250 GB SATA 2 3 GB/s.

 

I see the tech spec of my product  and I chose an HDD Seagate 500 GB SATA 3 6GB/s to put in the caddy as secondary HDD.

 

I've mounted the caddy with the new HDD but it doesn't work: at the start the notebook's green light turning on, but the SO doesn't start. Without any message of error, after few seconds the light became yellow and green for some times and after the PC turns off.

When I put off the caddy with the secondary HDD, the SO starts correctly.

 

I've read similar posts in the forum and I :

1) check the option into the BIOS to enable secondary HDD is active (DONE, it is enable)

2) disable the launching of the SO from the secondary HDD (DONE)

3) test the HDD (DONE, it is OK)

 

I tried to set up into the BIOS the SATA speed at 3 GB/s but I don't find the option. I see that someone did this action.

Could be this the problem?

I think also that could be a problem with the drivers to support the new secondary HDD but I don't know how to do.

 

Is there someone that could help me?

 

Thank you

 

Andrea

 

 

 

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‎05-05-2016 02:23 AM

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@Andrea_Mogni wrote:

New test: the pc doesn't start if I put on the caddy without Hard Disk.

 

I think it's the proof the problem is my caddy.

I would also come to that conclusion. Request an RMA for that one and find a different brand. 


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‎04-26-2016 02:56 AM

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Have you tried disconnecting the original hard disk's SATA connector from its SATA port and then connecting the new hard disk's SATA connector to that port?

 

 


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‎04-26-2016 06:15 AM

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This is a laptop and he is using an optical drive caddy to attemtp to add a second hard drive. I would suspect the caddy because the second hard drive in the optical bay adapter should work. There is no need to set anything up in the BIOS. The hard drive in the optical caddy will not be bootable and is not available in the boot order in the BIOS. 

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‎04-26-2016 08:23 AM

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Ahh. Did not catch that.


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‎04-28-2016 03:58 AM

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Is there any way to be sure that the problem is in the caddy? Or the only thing is to buy another one?

 

In this case, is there an original caddy from HP or a recommended one?

 

Thank you

 

A.M.

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‎04-28-2016 10:11 AM

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HP does not sell an HDD caddy for replacing an Optical disk with a hard disk or SSD. 

 

There is a decent selection of generic HDD caddies available. 

 

If you are in Europe, take a look at the following search that I did.

 

https://www.google.nl/search?q=laptop+hard+drive+caddy+sata&oq=laptop+HDD+caddy&aqs=chrome.5.69i57j0...


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‎04-30-2016 06:25 AM

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One of these in the images is mine and doesn't work

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‎04-30-2016 07:10 AM

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@Andrea_Mogni wrote:

One of these in the images is mine and doesn't work

Please be specific. 


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‎05-02-2016 08:11 AM

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I tried to explain all the things I can

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‎05-05-2016 02:17 AM

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New test: the pc doesn't start if I put on the caddy without Hard Disk.

 

I think it's the proof the problem is my caddy.

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