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From: spamlet on 24 Apr 2008 16:51 Hi all, I've been browsing all afternoon trying to find out if I can fit a new, bigger hard drive in tandem inside the box of our lay flat type GX270. Dell's US site comes up with an option for a bigger drive, but I can't see if the US included these lay flat type desktops we have in the UK. UK Dell site just comes up with peripherals for our model. Wiki seems to indicate there may only be connections for one drive in these models. As our existing drive is only 40gig and has a mere 2gig left, I would ideally like to just put in a say 500gig drive beside the existing one and move all the personal files over, without having to interfere with the OS or any formatting. Can this be done on our model? If so, what should I be buying/what is likely to be compatible. Much appreciate any light readers can throw on this for me! Cheers, S
From: Christopher Muto on 24 Apr 2008 17:11 it came in three different types of cases. namely the small form-factor, the small desktop, and the small mini tower. only the small mini tower has two bays for internal hard drives, the other two have only one. if you forgoe the optical drive you could mount a hard drive in that bay and get a ide cable that support two hard drives, or you could just get an external usb drive to expand this system. "spamlet" <spam.morespam(a)spamola.invalid> wrote in message news:Hp6Qj.70048$Ff4.69666(a)newsfe5-win.ntli.net... > Hi all, > > I've been browsing all afternoon trying to find out if I can fit a new, > bigger hard drive in tandem inside the box of our lay flat type GX270. > Dell's US site comes up with an option for a bigger drive, but I can't see > if the US included these lay flat type desktops we have in the UK. UK > Dell site just comes up with peripherals for our model. > > Wiki seems to indicate there may only be connections for one drive in > these models. > > As our existing drive is only 40gig and has a mere 2gig left, I would > ideally like to just put in a say 500gig drive beside the existing one and > move all the personal files over, without having to interfere with the OS > or any formatting. > > Can this be done on our model? > If so, what should I be buying/what is likely to be compatible. > > Much appreciate any light readers can throw on this for me! > > Cheers, > > S > > >
From: Christopher Muto on 24 Apr 2008 17:16
given that the current drive is only 40gb you would not be loosing much by just replacing it. if you get a 500gb retail packaged ide (or patat) hard drive you will find that it comes with a installation cd and a data cable. you can use the data cable to temporaily connect both the old and new drive to the system (leaving the case open for the moment). then install the software and run the clone utility telling it that your intention is to clone the current primary drive to the new drive and then make the new drive the only drive in the system... once copied you put the new large drive in place of the old and volia, you have everything just like before with 450gb of additional space available. you could buy a bare drive (no cd or cable) and download the software and purchase a cable seperately but it probbaly won't amount to much savings. "Christopher Muto" <muto(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:qM-dnYGHI7fsao3VnZ2dnUVZ_tyknZ2d(a)earthlink.com... > it came in three different types of cases. namely the small form-factor, > the small desktop, and the small mini tower. > only the small mini tower has two bays for internal hard drives, the other > two have only one. if you forgoe the optical drive you could mount a hard > drive in that bay and get a ide cable that support two hard drives, or you > could just get an external usb drive to expand this system. > > "spamlet" <spam.morespam(a)spamola.invalid> wrote in message > news:Hp6Qj.70048$Ff4.69666(a)newsfe5-win.ntli.net... >> Hi all, >> >> I've been browsing all afternoon trying to find out if I can fit a new, >> bigger hard drive in tandem inside the box of our lay flat type GX270. >> Dell's US site comes up with an option for a bigger drive, but I can't >> see if the US included these lay flat type desktops we have in the UK. >> UK Dell site just comes up with peripherals for our model. >> >> Wiki seems to indicate there may only be connections for one drive in >> these models. >> >> As our existing drive is only 40gig and has a mere 2gig left, I would >> ideally like to just put in a say 500gig drive beside the existing one >> and move all the personal files over, without having to interfere with >> the OS or any formatting. >> >> Can this be done on our model? >> If so, what should I be buying/what is likely to be compatible. >> >> Much appreciate any light readers can throw on this for me! >> >> Cheers, >> >> S >> >> >> > > |