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What Hard Drive is in Inspiron 531
I just ordered my new Dell Inspiron 531 (AMD x2 5000+) off Ebay, withouth the monitor. The hard drive in the case is a 320GB SATA, but I am wondering which hard drive company does DELL use. Seagate, WD, Maxtor, IBM, Hitachi or some other company. In my current system I have a Seagate 320GB which I like but it is the old fashioned hookup to the motherboard. What I figured I would do is give my old computer to friends and then use the big 320GB in the DELL as storage and buy another 80GB for the main drive in the Dell. I would like to use the same company so I can do a disk capture of the OS and transfer it to the new drive before wiping out and repartitioning the 320. I have heard some not so good things about Vista and before even replacing the old computer with the Dell, completely wipe the drive and do a fresh install of Windows XP. But I am going to do some research 1st. Thanks for any assistance. This is my 1st post on the Forums.
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December 24th, 2007 18:00
shesagordie
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There is no one brand of hard drive installed in Dell computers, Dell uses several makes, I've had Dell systems, with Maxtor, Seagate and Western Digital hard drives.
Basically, you will not know the make until you receive the computer.
Note: The Inspiron or Vostro Series do not support IDE drives, only SATA.
For more information about the i531, see here. <ADMIN NOTE: Broken link has been removed from this post by Dell>
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Message Edited by ejn63 on 12-24-2007 03:27 PM
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December 24th, 2007 19:00
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'...then I also assume the DVD/CD drive must be a SATA hookup too..."
You are right, it is.
If you wish to use an IDE hard drive, then install it into a powered USB 2.0 IDE enclosure, similar to this
I used an IDE external enclosure with an Inspiron 530 and it works fine.
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December 24th, 2007 20:00
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That's doable, but may take some time.
Have a happy Christmas and enjoy your new computer.
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