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I have a Dell Vostro 3546 Laptop, which is now 3 yrs old.

It was not powering on (4 to 5 months back) and I had it repaired by a local technician though, the power issue was fixed but a new issue took place, the system wasn't (and still) detecting HDD.

I checked connecting the HDD with other PC, its working fine and has all the data & partitions, but Laptop is not detecting Hard drive

A friend of mine suggested to try connecting the hard drive with Optical Drive Caddy, and according to him the system will boot, as I can change the boot sequence, but I want to make sure if this will work before I disassemble the Laptop.

So, will the system be able to boot from Hard drive connected with Optical drive caddy and the main HDD port (socket) left empty??

Kindly drop suggestions with specific details.

Error Code the system had produced after diagnosing:

Hard Drive 0 - DST Short Test Started: 01/01/2013 00:04:21 Ended: 01/01/2013 00:04:36 Elapsed time: 00:00:15 Test Results: Fail Error Code: 2000-0142 Validation: 122778 Msg: Hard Drive 0 - S/n WXC1E8421DMD

Note:

  1. If the system can boot with HDD connected with Optical Drive Caddy, the Read/Write speeds would differ, but how likely the difference would be.??

  2. Do I need to configure BIOS with particular settings for doing so.??

ra_si
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Yes, you can connect it like that and it should boot. Many people use this type of trick to add SSDs to be used as OS drives by removing the optical drive.

Just make sure you select the proper boot order.

Overmind
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