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r-ackerson
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2nd hard drive
I have a 40g pata hard drive. Can I set this up as a secondary storage drive in in a Dell 531 which has a sata primary drive ?
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r-ackerson
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shesagordie
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Posted September 18th, 2007 19:00
As you already know, i-531 does not support IDE/ATA drives, you need to buy an external USB 2.0 IDE powered enclosure, similar to this, mount the IDE hard drive in the enclosure, connect it to a USB 2.0 port.
Bev.
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Message Edited by shesagordie on 09-18-2007 03:24 PM