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matt57

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« on: December 06, 2005, 05:29:00 PM »
ok, first of all i know this is a newb question but i don't know much about pc's. i have a dell dimension in which the hard drive crashed. i know it's not a great pc but it was free. anyway i took the tower apart and unplugged the drive. i've never seen these types of cables before. i'm very familiar with IDE cables from modding my box and installing others in PC's. so, here is my question: can i convert these to IDE and if not what do i need to look for when buying my replacement drive???? by the way i searched but came back with no results. any help is appreciated.....
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Granulated

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2005, 05:49:00 PM »
It's probably a SATA drive.  Just search Newegg for SATA as opposed to IDE, and it should drop right in.
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matt57

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« Reply #2 on: December 06, 2005, 06:11:00 PM »
Cool, this sucks i was hoping to beable to drop in a extra 80 gb in but it's IDE so i guess i gotta buy another damn hard drive if dell doesn't replace it. i'm hoping they do it's less than a year old.
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2005, 09:39:00 PM »
in some cases you can return it directly to the manufacturer i.e. maxtor, samsung....
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« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2005, 03:11:00 PM »
You will only get it replaced if you have warranty on it still also if that is a new Dell machine and you have opened it you invalid your warranty if its old dell then just buy new IDE drive they are so cheap now.
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