Hi, I hope you'll be able to help. I have a 7 year-old Dell XPS 430 with the following specs: Intel Core 2 Quad Processor Q9400 (2.66GHz, 6MB, 1333MHz) 8GB (2GB x 2) DDR3 PC3-12800 Unbuffered RAM Seagate Barracuda (ST3750630AS) 750GB (7200rpm) 3Gbps SATA 100 Hard Drive RAID 0 PSU 425W My question is: can I add a second hard drive? There is a space for one (in a vacant flexibay) and I've located a drive via the Dell website, which indicates compatibility with the XPS 430: Origin Storage Hard Drive 1TB SATA 150 (Dell Part: A7201339) Is this feasible? Thanks and regards, Martin. Hey there, saintcecilia.

If there are free SATA slots, you should have no trouble adding a 2nd drive. The drive you've mentioned sounds like it's a SATA I HDD and the one you currently have is a SATA II drive. You'd be able to use the SATA I drive as well, because the SATA interface is backwards compatible, but you should have no trouble with any SATA drive as long as it's 2TB or less. Just make sure that you have cables in your case for an extra drive. Edit: Seems like you've already been given an answer before you wrote mine. Hope that helps.

I installed this samsung pro ssd into my friends dell xps 8300 and installed windows on it. It boots up and works fine but his old 500gig hdd is not showing up.

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He told me this PC came with this 500gig HDD and also a 15Gig recovery drive. The physical size of both drives is identical so not sure if that really is a 15gig recovery drive. Something is also popping up as a 1TB drive.

With the SSD installed into SATA0 and the 500gig HDD in SATA1, windows boots up from the SSD but does not show the 500gig HDD. Any help is appreciated thanks. Hi, Since there is some confusion, you should just take the side of the case to observe what drives are actually there.

*The 500GB drive should show up in Windows Explorer, and since it's already been formatted it should be there provided it's functional and the Data/Power cables are connected to it. 15GB: I think he's referring to a portion of the Hard Drive that contains a backup Partition with an Image of the original Windows Installation (used to Restore Windows in case of problems). If you find the hard drive again you should just FORMAT the entire thing provided there's no data you need from it. If it's a Hidden partition you wouldn't normally see it, but then you can't find the hard drive anyway. (not sure what you are referring to when you say 'equal' either) 1TB: not sure, again look inside the PC. **Is it possible there is a 1TB Hard Drive that's been partitioned into TWO pieces? Is that what he meant by 'equal' and may explain why you see a 1TB drive?