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Installing Drives 7-1
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Your Dell computer has five drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see
Figure 7-1):
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 two 5.25-inch bays
that can hold up to two half-height, 5.25-inch devices—typically tape drives or
CD-ROM drives.
The two vertically positioned hard-disk drive bays can each hold a 3.5-inch
enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) hard-disk drive. The bay on the right
(as you face the front of the computer) can hold a 1-inch-high (or smaller) drive,
whereas the bay on the left accommodates a 1.6-inch-high (or smaller) drive.
The next two sections contain information that you will need in several of the installa-
tion 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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externally
accessible
drive bays
front of computer
two-bay hard-disk
drive area (internal)