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Putting a hard drive in my PC. How?
I have an Que QPS m3 external hard drive. Recently it failed and erased all my files. I emailed the tech support people there and they told me the reason was that this happens is that most of the time it is a problem with the interface on the back of case of the external hard drive. He suggested that I take the hard drive and install it in my computer as an internal hard drive. Anyone know how to do this- and if this is a good idea?
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Posted May 18th, 2004 19:00
buylowsellhigh,
Thank you for visiting the Dell Community Forum.
If the hard drive is a standard IDE drive, you should be able to install the drive in the system. You can find information on installing a second hard drive in this system’s Online User’s Guide located at the following address:
http://docs.us.dell.com/docs/systems/dkub/rr.htm#secondary_hard_disk_drive
The second hard drive will need to be jumpered to “cable select” (see the drive manufacturer for information on how to do this with your drive) and connected to the middle connector on the Primary IDE cable (hard drive cable). Also make sure to set the Primary drive 1 option to Auto in the system BIOS setup.