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Your Dell computer has five drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see Figure 9-1):

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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 CD-ROM drives. Alternately, 3.5-inch devices can be installed in the 5.25-inch bays using adapters available from Dell.

The two-bay hard-disk drive cage next to the accessible bays can hold up to two 1-inch hard-disk drives or one 1-inch and one 1.6-inch hard-disk drive installed ver- tically. The drives must be enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) hard-disk drives.

The next three sections contain information that you will need in several of the instal- lation procedures described later in the chapter. The remaining sections of this chapter cover each type of drive installation.

NOTES: In all of the following procedures, left and right refer to your left and right as you face the front of the computer.

Because of the length of the bay, you can only install devices such as Iomega Zip drives in the lower 5.25-inch bay. You can install a CD-ROM drive only in the top 5.25- inch bay.

Installing Drives 9-1