Need help with installing a second hard drive in my laptop.

tortoise10heads

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I need help with installing a second hard drive. I have a Dell Latitude e6520 with Windows 7 installed. I bought a second hard drive caddy off of amazon that works really well. I removed the back plate of the laptop and successfully removed the optical drive and installed the second hard drive. The problem is that when I removed the back plate I accidentally removed the original hard drive as well. I attempted to put the original hard drive back correctly but now when I turn on my computer only the second hard drive shows up and not the original one.

Any help is much appreciated.
 

ajms1989

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Seems you've messed up with the drive (improper ejection might have caused this). Try to putting the first hard drive in same jack and see if you can make it working one more time. Alternatively, you can try starting your system with the second drive disconnected (only the first one connected) and see if it works.

Share the URL of the hard drive you've purchased so we can get full specs and assist you well further.