WR - Dell XPS Hard Drive installation help please.

09-09-2005, 06:03 PM

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Dell XPS Hard Drive installation help please.

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Okay so the deal is I bought a new Dell. I have an older hard drive that I bought from Seagate that has 160 gigs of good stuff I do not want to lose. So I took it out of the older computer, and already put it in my new Dell.

Well, turns out, they are using some sort of new technology with the plug-in port area, so it does not fit my old port. It is smaller, and I do not know what to do. anyone have any ideas?

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09-09-2005, 06:08 PM	#2
tuathal Mink Nemesis Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: On an intoxicated little island in the north atlantic Posts: 4,355/3.55 Threads: 393 Friends Network	Re: Dell XPS Hard Drive installation help please. If this 160 gigs is all software, just use the transfer wizard to copy it over. Its under system tools/file and settings transfer wizard.

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09-10-2005, 07:15 PM	#3
simplechords whore Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: h-town nj Posts: 21/0.02 Threads: 5 Friends Network	Re: Dell XPS Hard Drive installation help please. How old is the hard-drive? My guess is that the hard drive in your dell is SATA and doesn't used a IDe connection. If you only have one c.d drive, you should be able to hook it up the secondary connection on your c.d's ide cable.

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09-12-2005, 03:54 AM	#4
ElLocoTaco whore Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 53/0.04 Threads: 2 Friends Network	Re: Dell XPS Hard Drive installation help please. hmmm...simplechords will be right. A smaller plug will be SATA. You could verify simplechords idea by looking at the power-plug at your dell-hd. It must be a smaller, flat plug. If that's so, its 1000000% SATA.

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