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Old 07-05-2007   #12 (permalink)
lex71x
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Re: need help installing internal hard drive...

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Originally Posted by mciahel
Hi,There is no Master/Slave jumper with SATA drives.
Also, you may need some power supply adapter (also rather cheap) as SATA drives normally need a different kind of power connector. Or is there already a power connector for SATA drives?
if that power cable connected to the hard drive in the second pic is the standard sata power cable then yes there is another one of those thats not being used.

and does it matter where i plug the drive into the motherboard?.. it seems like the connectors are color-coded four different colors for a reason..



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Originally Posted by reasonsnotrules
my brother has the exact same model HP. There's no room to add ANYTHING in those stupid machines. instead they give you a useless empty "media bay." I dont think I've ever even see the HP media drives for sale anywhere lol.
hp 'personal media drives' run about $140 for a 160gb, whereas my 500gb only costs $125. you're basically forced to pay that much cause its the only drive that will fit in there, what a joke.. oh well, i'll MAKE my 500gb fit! and theres the hp camera dock on top of the case also.. i use it to dock my ti-84+ instead, haha.
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