Can I have 2 internal hard drives?
I just bought a new PC that has 1 hard drive. Well my old PC had C: drive which had 80GB & D: drive which had 55 GB of storage. I was wondering since my PC has a SATA plug open available if I can add another internal hard drive? Can this work? I have an Inspirion 530 with 250 GB hard drive and I want to add another 250
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Aparently, you can not RESPOND to your own message.
No one answered so I went ahead and did it. Lost all learned but a lot on the partitioning of hard disks and all together, in addition to becoming the hard drive back to R & R until less than 6 minutes time to unplug the PC at the rear, turn 05:53, my best so far. but she is back to being usable was a day and a half.
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Simple answer is not a. Read above.
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PS: I hope this helps someone.
Hello
Check with HP to factory reset of related problems.
All the best Ricks!
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- Click Start
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If you want to install programs on this disc you could make custom installations and select
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http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/310147
.. .but make a backup first.
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I will recommend you drive at 5400 RPM 7200 RPM drives can raise your temp of the laptop.
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Western Digital Scorpio Blue 500 GB 2.5 "SATA 3.0 Gb/s internal laptop hard - OEM disc for computer
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A partition resize, move partitions, restore Partition after an accidental deletion, convert partition, Explore, Hide partition partition,
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