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.
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.
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.
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Posted August 4th, 2006 10:00