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Your Dell computer has five 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 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.

two-bay hard-disk

drive area (internal)

front of computer

externally accessible drive bays

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Installing Drives 7-1