Hi All, Little update to this thread. I've had a bit of a nightmare trying to get the drive working, I imaged it, diskpart cleaned it, reformatted as exfat, this allowed the pc to start, but I couldn't load my files in from the image, as if I restored it, the drive went back to ntfs and if I tried to manually copy the files from the image, I would run out of disk space! I initially used Acronis True Image Western Digital edition (I'd bought a WD My book to back up onto) , however I then tried macrium reflect 8 to make and restore the image, and now the computer seems to boot fine, even with the disk formatted as NTFS! Not sure what fixed it, but thanks for the suggestions.
Hi, I just bought an Alienware Aurora R12 and I'm having a curious issue. The system came with 1TB NVMe and 2TB hard drive, everything works great like this. I upgraded the hard drive to 6TB (one I took out of my old Gaming PC, the actual drive is probably a year or so old) The drive is a Toshiba HDWE160. One of these [URL]  The issue I get is when I either shutdown the PC from Windows, or go into bios, make a change, save and reset, the PC won't start back up again. The system appears to shutdown, the lights on the front go off for a second then the ring light comes back on, I also notice the Alien head briefly shows as red/amber. When I try and turn on the system at this point, the Alien head lights up and the fans start but nothing else happens, no keyboard or screen. I have to hold the power button to turn off,  then unplug the system until the ring light goes out, then plug back in and turn on, then it works as normal! I just tried tonight putting the original 2TB disk back in and the system works normally! So I'm assuming theres some compatibility issue with my 6TB drive, anyone any ideas, or have seen this behaviour before? Also, I've run all the updates in both Windows 10 and through the Alienware updater.  Thanks  A.
Aurora R12, added 6TB drive, issues appear