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Installing Drives 7-1

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Your Dell computer has six drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see

Figure 7-1):

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The externally accessible drive bays at the front of the computer consist of one

3.5-inch drive bay (dedicated to a 3.5-inch diskette drive) and three 5.25-inch bays

that can hold up to three half-height, 5.25-inch devices—typically, tape drives or

CD-ROM drives. Alternately, 3.5-inch devices can be installed in the 5.25-inch

bays using adapters available from Dell.

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The two hard-disk drive bays can each hold a 3.5-inch enhanced integrated drive

electronics (EIDE) or small computer system interface (SCSI) hard-disk drive.

Together, the bays can hold one 1-inch-high (or smaller) drive and one

1.6-inch-high (or smaller) drive.

The next three sections contain information that you will need in several of the instal-

lation procedures described later in the chapter. The remaining sections of this

chapter cover each type of drive installation.

NOTE: In all of the following procedures,

left

and

right

refer to your left and right as

you face the

front

of the computer.

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