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Apire T180 - Adding hard drive

I've added hard drives on a variety of desktops in past. Adding a hard drive in an Aspire T180 - but where are the extra power and data cable hookups?
Chips

Anonymous May 11, 2010

IDE or SATA drive?? IDE or SATA drive??

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Thjis PC has a SATA (serial) drive. You have to purchase a SATA cable and a SATA power cable. Then you can install it on the SATA 2 port on the motherboard.

You can buys these at your local computer store or at Cyberguys.com:

http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/SearchAll.asp?search=sata+cables&sort=desc

You may have to copy and paste the link into your browser.
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