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    Lost, Confused and Don't know What to Do after my upgrade to Dell XPS 8900

    Alright ... problem fixed! Took both drives and instead of using new PC's rear USB ports, I used front USB port. Works just fine! Or maybe it needed to be scanned once on the old computer and it doesn't really matter which USB port it is, back or front. Either way ... everything works now.
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    Lost, Confused and Don't know What to Do after my upgrade to Dell XPS 8900

    Hmm .... interesting point. I connect my 4tb HD via rear port but my 128gb USb that works fine is connected via front port. Could it be that rear USB port is the problem? I have other devices connected via rear USB like printer, etc and they work fine.
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    Lost, Confused and Don't know What to Do after my upgrade to Dell XPS 8900

    Ok .... success ! Took one of the 4TB drives, connected to my laptop running Windows 7, did DISK fix where it fixed something, connected it back to the media player by TV via USB and it was found. Doing the same now to the 2nd 4TB hard drive. So ... what is it? I can't use these 2 drives...
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    Lost, Confused and Don't know What to Do after my upgrade to Dell XPS 8900

    well, now, connecting my 4tb External HD to my Laptop running Windows 7, it found some errors and I am doing both 1) Automatically fixing file system errors as well as 2) Scanning and attempting to recover bad sectors. Looks like it's going to take 5 hours for this process to end. Have no idea...
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    Lost, Confused and Don't know What to Do after my upgrade to Dell XPS 8900

    I am totally baffled with something that happened after I started using my new PC. XPS 8900. I've been using my WD Live media player and now KDLINKS HD720 connecting two WD MyBook 4TB and 128gb flash drive. The hard drives were always iffy and I hated to disconnect them from the TV and then to...
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    DELL XPS8900 i7 disappointing after upgrade? Is it me or something?

    Yep, you're 100% right. Already getting my ISO file to put on the SD card ... by the way.. does the SD card nee to be empty and only contain the ISO file? Don't feel like erasing my other pictures from there. not sure that I'll understand exactly what to do with it after, need to watch more...
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    DELL XPS8900 i7 disappointing after upgrade? Is it me or something?

    Saw a youtube video and they are suggesting going clean instead of mirroring an old HD. Maybe I should listen? :-) I don't have the original install files but I think you're able to create it on a USB? So, go with a clean slate?
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    DELL XPS8900 i7 disappointing after upgrade? Is it me or something?

    Alright .... I am ready! Computer is functioning much better after I updated with windows update. Now ... I got a 500gb SSD and 16gb ram waiting to be used. My friend, who was supposed to come help me had to back out till weekend. I want to try doing this on my own. He suggested using Norton...
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    DELL XPS8900 i7 disappointing after upgrade? Is it me or something?

    just updated Windows ... so far everything is fine, however ... still. .. while transferring a file from 2tb external HD to a 1TB internal, I get a message that says "Can't read from the source file or disk. Given options to try again, skip or cancel and on bottom it says Availability...
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    DELL XPS8900 i7 disappointing after upgrade? Is it me or something?

    I finally upgraded my computer after 6-8 years with my old stuff .... should I be happy? Not yet! I went from using (Desktop) DELL Inspiron 570 AMD Sempron 140 Single-Core 2.7GHz; 2GB RAM, 500GB HD and (Notebook) Dell Inspiron N4010 8gb RAM, Intel Pentium P6100 @ 2.00Ghz USB 2.0 to now...
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    Dell XPS 8900 ... Can I stuff 10 Hard Drives?

    bump? Question now is ... for the SSD drive, do I stick with Samsung 850 EVO 500GB or Samsung 850 PRO 512GB or Samsung 950 PRO Is it worth the extra cost to go pro? I'll be using HD for some image editing, photo viewing, 1080p video (rarely) and launching applications MS office, lightroom...
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    Dell XPS 8900 ... Can I stuff 10 Hard Drives?

    I was just being lazy ... I looked into it and I guess I am good. Easily will fit all I need to fit. Question now is ... for the SSD drive, do I stick with Samsung 850 EVO 500GB or Samsung 850 PRO 512GB or Samsung 950 PRO Is it worth the extra cost to go pro? I'll be using HD for some image...
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    Dell XPS 8900 ... Can I stuff 10 Hard Drives?

    I am sorry, looking at that image it doesn't explain to me how many SSDs and HDs will fit. Can I fit 2 standard hard drives and 1 SSD in there? thanks
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    Dell XPS 8900 ... Can I stuff 10 Hard Drives?

    So, I finally bit the bullet and bought DELL XPS 8900 i7-6700 8GB RAM 1TB HDD DVD-RW NVIDIA GT 730 WINDOWS 10 I also bought Crucial 16GB Kit (8GBx2) DDR4 2133 to make it a total of 24gb ram. Price paid = $630 (refurb) I am curious to know what to do with multiple hard drives I have and will...
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    Can this Dell be saved? How can I keep it alive with upgrades?

    and if I decided to go with XPS8900 .... should I go for i7 or i5? based on my needs? I do plan to use SSD drive and keep whatever drive it comes with inside the machine for backup files.
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