Computer Help (Hard Drive)
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Computer Help (Hard Drive)
Seeming that my other thread got deleted (:really Im making a new one. I currently have a Dell Dimensions 4700 and a new Western Digital EIDE Hard Drive, and I was having trouble hooking it up (EIDE vs SATA), and I was wondering if any of you people would know anything that would help my quest?
#2 - Jakg
Define "trouble"?
I don't know how to install it, I don't know what hooks up to where.
You possibly don't have a SATA connector.

EDIT: Looking at the specs, there is a SATA port, but you need a SATA cord, and in my past recollection, they come with the Motherboard, not the hard-disk, so you may haffto go buy a SATA cord.
If you say it is an EIDE drive, you need the cable in the first pic below. The blue end goes into a blue connector on the motherboard, and the grey end goes into the hard drive. Make sure to set the hard drive to master with the pins at the back. If it's an SATA drive you need the cable in the second pic, and it's even easier, as you don't have to set any pins.

Then just plug in the power cable into the drive, and boot it and check if it shows up in the BIOS.
Attached images
ide_133_cable.jpg
SATA_Cable.jpg
#6 - Jakg
Just fyi, the drive you linked to uses a Sata connector - just grab a cable (which the mobo comes with - if you don't have one you can pick 'em up cheap) and plug it in (only fits the right way in the drive, and both ends of the cable fits, fool proof) and find a spare lead that fits the the power plug from the PSU - then just locate the slot of the the sata on the mobo (which should have "SATA" written above it, and from my experience comes in red or black and sticks out), plug in the other end of the cable and your done.
hard drives are annoying , my hard drive is a old p.o.s , it dont even have a brand label on it but i bought a 500 gb external hard drive so this 60 gb is barely enough to run my pc

Computer Help (Hard Drive)
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