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I want to put a new hard drive in my pc
silkyuk9
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Ok, i have a desk top pc, inside there are 3 hard drives, i have windows XP on each, however one hard drive is only about 20 gig another is about 50 and the one i use is 110gig.
now what im thinking is buying another hard drive maybe 200 gig or so and take my little 20 gig one out that i do not use.
without taking my pc to bits and removing an hard drive now, how can i find out what it is to search the internet to find one that with fit into its space?
now what im thinking is buying another hard drive maybe 200 gig or so and take my little 20 gig one out that i do not use.
without taking my pc to bits and removing an hard drive now, how can i find out what it is to search the internet to find one that with fit into its space?
All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right, and outing the liars.
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There ar egenerally three sizes of hard drive 3.5", 2.5" and 1.8". In a desktop PC it's almost certainly a 3.5" drive. The main thing you need to check is whether it has an IDE connector or a SATA connector.It's my problem, it's my problem
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BillScarab wrote: »There ar egenerally three sizes of hard drive 3.5", 2.5" and 1.8". In a desktop PC it's almost certainly a 3.5" drive. The main thing you need to check is whether it has an IDE connector or a SATA connector.
ok, all i know is that there are whit 'ribbon' type plastic wires connectioning to the unit then to the connector on my pc?? is that info any good.All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right, and outing the liars.0 -
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If it's a 'ribbon' cable with ridges (usually 40 or 80 ridges) on it then it's IDE. SATA uses a much narrower cable with no ridges.
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ok so i have established its a IDE but how do i know if its 1.8 2.5 or 3.5All the big powers they've silenced me. So much for free speech and choice on this fundamental human right, and outing the liars.0
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measure it would seem a good way, or read post #2 again0
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why do you need so many hard drives? more power, more noise.!!
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