Anyone know this beast?
I've been asked to add some storage to one.
The guy is thinking external hard drive.
I just said why not put a 2nd internal hard drive in.
He doesn't need backup storage or anything like that.
Just more drive space.
I told him I'd have a look and not charge him. He's a friend
and ain't got no legs and a gulf war vet. He wants to pay me
to hook him up but I won't - even if I do hook him up.
My goodness, what does it take to slap in a hard drive, set up
BIOS, reboot and see it? Famous last words I'll likely have to eat
I know. It always seems to work that way.
I'll take a few beers and a few shots and I'm good with that.
And yes, he only knows me as "Big E".
He might know my real name. I'm not sure.
Anyway, does anyone know what sort of problem I might encounter?
E.
You need to give the actual model number if you are looking for useful help. Otherwise, a gross generalization is that yes, it is easy.
Thanks Joe. I have no idea as to a model number.
I haven't seen the machine at all.
I'm actually curious about BIOS limits on a new drive for it.
He might go get some 500gig drive and the machine's BIOS
might not be able to handle that.
I just don't know at this point.
I doubt you will have a problem with a 500 GB drive with a computer of that vintage, especially if it has SATA ports.
OPen the hood and get a model and make of the motherboard and google the specs on that and you should get all the info you will need.
Yeah, I plan on opening the hood as you say.
This guy is 100% clueless on computers.
I might orta do some simple stuff for him like a defrag and stuff.
Clean out the temp files and such and maybe he won't need the
new drive at all. I won't know till I get my hands on it.
Perhaps I will over the weekend or next week sometime.
He's suppose to call me tonight or tomorrow.
I can walk him through that stuff over the phone.
Just press the easy button and go with a plug and play external hd.
You can pick up a 500gb for about $45 right now.
I got one 2 years ago and have not made much of a dent in it.
Randy
I don't see a problem!
Just have to set one as master and the other slave! By the pin settings on the back of the drive...
> Anyone know this beast?
> I've been asked to add some storage to one.
> The guy is thinking external hard drive.
> I just said why not put a 2nd internal hard drive in.
> He doesn't need backup storage or anything like that.
> Just more drive space.
> I told him I'd have a look and not charge him. He's a friend
> and ain't got no legs and a gulf war vet. He wants to pay me
> to hook him up but I won't - even if I do hook him up.
> My goodness, what does it take to slap in a hard drive, set up
> BIOS, reboot and see it? Famous last words I'll likely have to eat
> I know. It always seems to work that way.
> I'll take a few beers and a few shots and I'm good with that.
>
> And yes, he only knows me as "Big E".
> He might know my real name. I'm not sure.
>
> Anyway, does anyone know what sort of problem I might encounter?
> E.
You think computers from 2006 still had ide ports?
> You think computers from 2006 still had ide ports?
My brand-new i7-2600 with Socket 1155 MOBO has an IDE port...
That's why it's a good idea to pop open the case before getting anything. I seem to remember those Presarios shifting over from IDE to SATA somewhere in that time frame, so I could imagine it having either one. Best bet is to actually look inside, see what's already in there, and what connections are available on the MOBO.
I also remember Dell was changing their cases a lot, and some of those Presarios and Dimensions were quite the pain to get drives in and out of. Some of them involved unscrewing these little metal housings on the side of the case, housings that completely enclosed the drives (and probably weren't that great for cooling...). Somewhere in there, Dell also started moving toward little sleds in the drive slots. That made things considerably easier, as the drives could then be slid in and out of the bays.
That's great, you have a 3rd party IDE controller on your mobo. However AMD and Intel dropped IDE support and switched to SATA only in this time frame. It's really simple, either post the model number of the computer, or open it up and look inside.
