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I replaced the HDD on my Dell laptop with an SSD, but I had a couple problems


G+_William Burlingame
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I replaced the HDD on my Dell laptop with an SSD, but I had a couple problems.  The first HDD caddy I bought to replace the optical drive wasn't the correct one, even though the description on Amazon had my model included.  It was 12.7mm thick and I needed 9.5mm.   It would probably cost too much to return it considering it's original price. Then the BIOS didn't recognize the HDD in the caddy.  That was fixed with a firmware upgrade.  My laptop is only five moths old and the BIOS was out of date.  I bought it directly from Dell.  Now that I've moved the documents and other data from the C: drive to the D: drive, all is working well. Since the firmware upgrade wasn't available until two months after I bought it, I would have been out out luck had I tried it then.  Just remember that it's worthwhile to read the forums before undertaking some projects.  I didn't.

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