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    alienware D9t wont read hard drives

    Discussion in 'Alienware Area-51/Aurora and Legacy Systems' started by EROTH, Jun 24, 2012.

  1. EROTH

    EROTH Newbie

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    I recently bought a D9T off of ebay and I have tried numerous hard drives from ide to sata and i cant get any of them to appear when I'm trying to install windows 7 I can here them running but they don't appear. Any thoughts?
     
    EROTH, Jun 24, 2012
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  2. el_corsez

    el_corsez Notebook Geek

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    Are the hard drives recognized by the BIOS?
     
    el_corsez, Jun 27, 2012
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    protivakid Notebook Evangelist

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    Not sure if this laptop uses raid, but if so, did you try downloading and using the raid / sata drivers?
     
    protivakid, Jun 27, 2012
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