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This Dell PC of mine has bays for mounting 2 hard drives it looks like. So at the top of the case is a 5 1/4 bay for the DVD drive, below that is an empty 5 1/4 inch bay where the Addonics rack is located. A bit below that is where the 2 bays are located for the HDs. Hope I explained it correctly. Ask again if I didn't. Bob
Hi, it sounds correct, that you have mounting bays for two hard drives inside of the case.
The next thing is to find out what type of hard drive you have. There are generally two types of hard drives used in desktop pc's.
The old style of hard drive uses ide connections. It looks like this: http://www.google.com/imgres?q=ide+hard+drive+cable +connections&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=610&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=a4wudEBdKJQsMM:&imgrefurl=http://tech-help.info/components.html&docid=hB1_xWGjuHkjAM&imgurl=http://tech-help.info/sitebuilder/images/IDE_Hard-drive_with_IDE_and_Power_cable_crop-600x485.jpg&w=600&h=485&ei=axFrT-fjBIbagAfuldjABg&zoom=1
The common modern style of hard drive connection is sata. It looks like this:
http://www.google.com/imgres?q=sata+hard+drive+cable +connections&num=10&hl=en&gbv=2&biw=1280&bih=640&tbm=isch&tbnid=CLpW5WJm-EnFcM:&imgrefurl=http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay%3Flndocid%3DMIGR-55828&docid=0usPKYDLbRcxHM&imgurl=http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/sata2.jpg&w=400&h=287&ei=ERJrT-raHfPq0QGI0rnrBg&zoom=1
If you can open the case again like before, take a look at the back of the hard drive to see what type of cable connections you have, to find out what sort of hard drive you have.
Then post back.
I have SATA drive. A fun thing with this is you can buy as many HDs you want and then put one in the 5 1/4 bay and you now have whatever OS is on the drive. Tired of it? Power off, take the HD out, put in another one with a different OS and you now have that one. So I have 4 HDs, one with win 7, then the others are openSuse12.1 ,Fedora 16, and Ubuntu 11.10. So I can use whatever one I want. Less and less with win 7. Only cost is the HDs. And no dual-booting problems. :-) Bob
Hi, Well, you can probably tell where I am headed with the line of questions that I have been asking. I was thinking that you could install some hard drives internally, as well as maybe keep your front loading hard drive setup too. Then you can set up grub to allow you to boot one of several installed operating systems. I find it to be quite easy to do once you have learned how to set up grub.
In your post above it seems you are indicating that you prefer to have only one hard drive installed at a time via the front loading hard drive mount. At least, that is how I am interpreting what you wrote. No problems either way, linux is about personal choices. If you don't wish to pursue installing internal hard drives, I won't continue this line. So let me know your preference before I proceed farther. Thanks -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org