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...second hard drive It depends of the form factor of your GX240, please see below: Small Form Factor - you can not add a second hard drive. Small Desktop - you can add, but you have to remove the CDROM ...

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...hard drive, and only if you have a second one would you computer ever find anything on Drive 1. I would check the connections inside from the motherboard to the hard drive, as well as from the power ...

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second hard drive Let me get this straight, because the title got cut off: You pulled a hard drive from one computer and put it into the other, and it is not being recognized. Did you check the jumper

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...from the CD tray, or the hard drive. If the hard drive is grinding, (and that would be more of a grinding noise) you would be wise to back data up, as that can mean your hard drive is on its way

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second look for the hard drive , it s right next to cd rom right corner , make sure the data cable ribbon is correctly seated next , check the power make sure its connected . now the fun part is next

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second hard drive what is the interface of the hard drive I need to get? You will have to buy an IDE hard drive, this one is not compatible with SATA. Plus make sure that you take the one according to

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hard drive to talk to. Drives are labeled in the computer code with numbers starting at 0. There are up to 2 drives on an IDE ribbon cable, the Primary, and the "slave" or secondary. So, possibilities

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...Hard Disk Drive (1), this is the "Primary" (C:) Drive. 2. Next, in the Devices with Removable Storage (1)below is the "Secondary" Drive, this will be the (CD or DVD Drives (D:), for "External Drives" ...

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...second-hard-drive-xp-pro.html Put both drives on the same ribbon cable, both drives set to cable select . the bios will then detect them as primary and secondary.New drives are RAW and therefore not ...

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...second hard drive and have been doing some intese photo and movie stuff. I have since had a thermal shut down and a regulator failure. I cannot find any information on where fan is supposed to be ...

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