PC EXPERT REVIEW - ADDING SECOND HARD DRIVE : COMPAQ PRESARIO SR5710F DESKTOP PC (Best computer processor)
Review by PAUL MCDUELL (Orange County, CA USA)
Satisfiable Rating (10/10)
I bought this for a client PC from another dealer, but I often buy from Amazon - they are great. The first one I bought does not boot, gave me an error of HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) suspect a bad hard drive - can not reinstall the operating system from the hard drive, or to return to the store is gone.
2. The computer works fine so far. You can not beat the price (I paid $ 299), but the reason I'm writing is because there is a place designed for installing an additional hard drive, but I found a good compromise.
You can add a second IDE (PATA) drives. Using standard ribbon cable, connects to the blue door on the motherboard, which is driven to master. After rebooting into the BIOS and set the original drive back to being the boot disk, otherwise it will try to boot from IDE drives. I "installed" 2 units for the DVD. Can not be accessed from the front, even if the plastic is pulled off the front. I had to pull the power cord, but it was easy (see card on the front that you need to press down, after removing the screws. The 2nd. Harddrive fits very comfortably on top of the DVD drive. I do not put all screws and works quietly. Now, here there are no guarantees, you do so at your own risk. It can get hot up there, but I think it will be ok. This method reserves other DVD drive if you want to add a second burner . Remember that this is a small power supply, so as to add something could exceed the limits.
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