Hard Drive On HP Omen Accelerator Doesn't Work

[tweeijsbeer]

I bought the Omen Accelerator a while ago and really liked it.

Lately, I bought a new laptop (HP Spectre x360 13-ae010nd) and now I want to keep my work and games apart so I added a hard drive.

Unfortunately, my laptop can't find the hard drive. I have no problems at all with my graphics card, so I think the hard drive cable is broken or so...

I would like to know if I can repair this, and if so, where I could buy this cable (if thats the problem)

I added some photos down below for some clarification,

Hope someone can help me, if something is still unclear, please let me know

Diskpart while Omen Accelerator is connectedConnection with the hard driveConnection hard drive-board (with bent cable)Omen Accelerator with graphics card and hard driveOmen Acceleraor software

[Huffer]

I understand the Omen Accelerator is designed to take a 2.5 inch hard drive or SSD and that I believe is a 3.5 inch hard drive (desktop sized). You can't just lay a hard drive inside there; it has to be bolted in and there is no room for a full-sized desktop drive in there. 

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/omen-by-hp-ga1-1000-accelerator-shell/15776606/videos

[tweeijsbeer]

Thanks for the reaction!

Does that make any difference? As far as I know, you can't really block a component by it's size.

[Huffer]

Not sure what that means but if you just lay an unbolted hard drive in a  computer it will fail quickly as it will move around from the centrifugal forces and the read heads will bump into the plates causing bad sectors. Needs to be bolted down. Also possible the hard drive system in the Accelerator does not put out enough current for a 3.5 drive. I know I have often used a 2.5 in place of a 3.5 but never tried it the other way around as in a laptop. 

https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?t=134684

Get a 2.5 inch hard drive or SSD as the system was designed for and you will be fine.