Install second sata hard drive dell

Step 3. Now, you've installed the second hard drive into your computer. All you need is to press the power button to restart your computer and enter the next guide to set up the second hard drive. To make your hard drive showing up and detected correctly in your computer, you need to initialize the disk, setting up a correct partition style, and create partitions on your disk. EaseUS Partition Master with its New Disk Guide feature makes it easy and simple for you: partition hard drive and initialize disk at the same time.

Once the customization is done, click "Proceed". By doing so, you'll get several volumes that share equal capacity on the disk, for example, 2 GB volumes on a GB disk. After creating volumes on the new disk, you may stop here. But if you need to make use of the hard drive, follow the next guide for help. Here, we collected two types of needs and offered respective tips to help you make use of the second hard disk.

If you tend to use the second hard drive as a data disk, you can now copy and paste large files into the second disk. For honing the best way to transfer large files, EaseUS Todo PCTrans now update the large file cleanup function, supporting moving files large than 20MB to another drive partition root and custom directories.

See how does it work. Note that if your OS drive is logically too small, the other way to release its stress is to move the installed programs to a second hard drive. So my question: Is there a way to mount the second hard drive internally? Are the newer type of brackets available and will they work? Thanks, I've seen that. I have the second hard drive hooked up and running now using only to recover files from last computer , and it looks like there is physical room for the drive to fit.

I'm only wondering if there is a bracket available to piggyback the two hard drives so the second one can be mounted internally. I am not sure if that is available.

Click here to contact our spare parts department. Curious if this was ever solved because I have the same issue. Just got this desktop with the intention of adding a 2nd drive. It never occurred to me that there might not be a way to mount it. Looks like there is a 2nd SATA cable ready to be used so hopefully there's a simple way to make this work. I added a second hard drive to my new I used this mounting bracket. Simple install.

Sorry, I should have been more specific. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Replies Oili Is your inspiron , the Mini Tower, or the Slimline version?

This is the tower. Big box! Has room for 2 internal hard drives unlike the slim version Oili. Oili Instructions for installing a second hard drive in the Inspiron Mini tower are not available, as they have not been published by Dell, but as the Inspiron has the same chassis, you can use the same instructions for the physical installation of the additional SATA hard drive.

The Inspiron Slimline model does support two 3. Oili You are welcome. Good luck with the upgrade. Grant2 2 Bronze.

Grant2 Does the hard drive you are trying to install, have any issues? Also, it helps to include the computer model and the version of windows that's installed. Post Reply. Top Contributor. Dell Support Resources.