Windows 10: Problem with the caddy hard I installed.

I bought a used laptop which is Lenovo t540p and installed a second hard drive to the optical drive via a caddy adapter. after installing windows 10 I faced a problem with my second hard. It is that the second hard is showing as a removable device. and I searched online for this problem and did some registry edit commands. But nothing worked. I guess the problem is with my laptop model because my secondary hard shows as a desktop devicewith red color Lenovo icon. Then I installed win 7 to see weather it fix the problem and it did but I want to use new windows so I installed win 11 back an

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HDD in a HDD caddy is not showing up in the disk management

Hi,

To assist you better, I would like to ask some questions:

• How are you connecting the HDD Caddy?
• What is the make and model of your computer?

If you are connecting the device using USB, I suggest you to check if other USB devices are recognized as USB devices or Other device. If it is displaying as other device, then the issue might be with the USB port. So, I suggest you to update the USB drivers
by following the steps below:

• Press Windows key + X, select Device Manager.
• Expand Universal Serial Bus Controller.
• Right click on the drive, select Update Driver Software and follow the on-screen prompts.

Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.

 

Hard drive in a caddy causing boot problems

I had this problem due to having an active partition on the external drive. I suggest you use MiniTool Partition Wizard to check the partitions on your external drive and change any active partitions on that drive to inactive. You should only have one active partition on your system drive for a single boot PC.

 

Hard drive in a caddy causing boot problems

Sorry for this idiotness on my behalf. I must correct an incorrect statement here. I did NOT have the hard drive inserted into the laptop while installing Windows 10 onto the SSD. That was the solution from the previous post to be able to install Windows 10 onto the SSD. I had to REMOVE the hard drive in order to be able to even begin the installation on the SSD. Sorry for the confusion.

BUT, on the hard drive there are remnants of a failed Windows 10 installation. Let me explain: When I got the SSD I cloned the hard drive OS partition to the SSD. Then when I saw that the machine booted with the SSD I put the hard drive back in and tried to factory reset the Windows. That FAILED. So I thought: "**** it, I will just use the SSD with the 'used' Windows on it." Then I bought a caddy and used the hard drive for data ever since. Until now..


P.S. The UEFI boot settings is something I read on another forum that someone suggested when I was trying to install Windows 10 with the hard drive in the computer as well as the SSD. I have changed it to "disabled".