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Originally Posted by Whiskeydan
OK, Just wasted 30 minutes of my life talking (waiting) with Dell support. Severe language barrier due to outsourced tech help prevented much info exchange before they dropped the call.
Looking in the machine and I don't see a place to connect another drive. Does it just daisy chain with the existing drive on the IDE ribbon cable?
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Most likely, you have a machine with an IDE interface. You'll have to buy a new drive with the same unless the computer is new enough to have some SATA ports. Use a Google image search to find pictures of what these connectors look like.
If you don't have available IDE or SATA ports, you will have to chain the two drives together as master and slave. The drives have jumpers on them with labels so you can set them. Use "CBL sel" or "cable select on both drives and the computer will automatically sense them.
You may have to buy another IDE cable if you need it.
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Originally Posted by Brian Carlton
I have the entire install copy of the OS on CD.
How would I burn a copy of it?
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My Dell has a program called Roxio that facilitates the creation of CD's. Pretty much every computer with a CD burner has some sort of software to use it. In Roxio, you just click on "Create an exact copy", then follow the on-screen instructions.