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August 4th, 2006 10:00

Dell E510

I had a dell diminsion 4600 which was damaged by lightning a few weeks ago.  I have since bought a dell e510.  I am trying to install the 80gb factory hard drive from the 4600 into my E510 to recover files.  I have no other reason to do this, other then to recover 3 years worth of informationthat i need.The power source plugs and the data cables that plug into the back of the harddrive all seem to be different.  How can I get around this issue, and is there any reason this additional hard drive would not work in my E510. 
  • iantz

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    Posted August 4th, 2006 10:00

    Probably your old hard drive is a IDE, while E510 uses SATA. Anyway, you can plug the old drive in the CD or DVD bay. That's what I did and it worked perfectly.
  • jb122

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    Posted August 4th, 2006 10:00

    You can also purchase an external USB drive case and use the drive as an external unit.  You can get them from ebay or newegg......
  • ctalia4000

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    Posted August 4th, 2006 11:00

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    Posted August 4th, 2006 13:00

    I save yourself some effort and go microcenter, compusa or some other place and have the put all you stuff on DVD, then you have a back-up and your done with it.