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June 21st, 2012 19:00
Firewire usb port on Studio 15 laptop
Simple question.....where is it located on my laptop....I'm going to be purchasing an external firewire but need to know where to plug it in on my laptop....also....anything I should know before I jump off into this?
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DELL-Manpreet C
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June 22nd, 2012 18:00
Hi VEEJER1,
Welcome to the Dell Community.
I would like to inform you that Studio 1558 has an inbuilt Fire wire port or IEEE 1394 connector to the left of the laptop.It also has an Express Card Slot to the right. The computer ships with a plastic blank installed in the slot.
Kindly refer to these pictures.
In the first picture, the number 7 port is the Firewire or IEEE 1394 connector.
In the second picture, the number 1 is the Express Card slot
Please reply if you have any further questions.
Veejer1
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June 21st, 2012 20:00
Studio 1558....
ejn63
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June 21st, 2012 20:00
Most newer notebooks don't have firewire, and most consumer models (Inspiron, Vostro, Studio) do not have a way to add one (i.e., no Express Card slot).
Which Studio 15 (i.e., 1545, etc.) do you have?
Veejer1
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June 22nd, 2012 21:00
Thank you for letting me know where it was located....I hope never to have to use it but it's good information for the future. As it turns out, my Dell online back-up had used up more than half of my storage space! Once I figured that out, I went in and deleted all but the latest back-up and recovered over 150 GB of space!!!! Good Lord! There should be info located "somewhere" that tells you to manually get rid of old un-needed back-ups! Thank goodness I did not go on ahead and purchase the Firewire storage as now I do not need to....It's a hard lesson learned that other folks my automatically know to do but I sure will keep that in mind for the future.
For others who suffer from the same problem, go to your C drive and open it up....scroll down and look for N360_BACKUP. I put all of my files in date order and deleted all but the latest back-up and it freed up a TON of space....