adding an extra hard disk in place of a floppy

TheMonster · 18-03-2005 11:29AM #1

Is it possible to use the floppy connector to connect a hard disk. I already have an extra hard disk added and there are no slots left for a new one,crappy dell PC, and as I don't use the floppy drive was wondering is there any way to use its connectors.

Prob a stupid question buy the innards of a PC are new to me.

CyberGhost · 18-03-2005 11:42AM

nope, they are different

The Muppet · 18-03-2005 11:45AM

An external USB2 Hard disk would be an option if you need to add f urther drives or a seperate sata card and drive.

TheMonster · 18-03-2005 11:51AM

Thought as much but was hoping not.

already have 2 externals Hard drives - this NTL 1.5GB Broadband is killing my diskspace - need to get deleting

is it possible for a novice to add a new connector for a HD?

CyberGhost · 18-03-2005 12:58PM

dells have lots of usb 2 connectors, just keep expanding and buy bigger hard drives

TheMonster · 18-03-2005 01:07PM

thanks guess thats what I will have to do. This 60GB is the smallest drive - just replaced by 200GB one-so was hoping for a cheap way to use it.

rymus · 18-03-2005 01:08PM

buy a couple of maxtor one touch drives and daisychain them together

Jetpilot · 18-03-2005 01:11PM

Or alternatively you could buy a controller card and get 4 more ide channels for your pc so you could install 4 more hard drives

Kali · 18-03-2005 01:15PM

is it possible for a novice to add a new connector for a HD?

Yep, not particularly easy.. but just a case of following a few steps:

First of all check theres enough spare power-connectors (white 5-pin connectors) and physical space to actually mount a new-hard drive in the case... next check if there are any free PCI slots in the machine (these are usually white conector-blocks below your graphics card) ... if alls ok with this then you're halfway there.

Next you need to buy yourself a new PCI controller card... this will allow you to connect the extra hard-drives... these come in two flavours: SATA or IDE and you need to match the type with the hard-drives you intend on purchasing.

Then stick the controller card in, mount the hard-drive in the case, attach the hard-drive using the supplied cables to the new controller, attach the power cable to the back of the hard-drive, close up the case and boot-up... windows should pick up the new controller automatically (if not use whatever software it came with).. and then the attached hard-drive.

rsynnott · 18-03-2005 03:37PM

TheMonster wrote:

Is it possible to use the floppy connector to connect a hard disk. I already have an extra hard disk added and there are no slots left for a new one,crappy dell PC, and as I don't use the floppy drive was wondering is there any way to use its connectors.

Prob a stupid question buy the innards of a PC are new to me.

Well, there are hard disks that use that interface, but you might have a bit of trouble finding one nowadays, and they do max out at about 20MB

Peeps1977 · 18-03-2005 05:48PM

whats the price on pci controller cards? could do with one meself
mucho thanx

tba · 18-03-2005 05:54PM

Peeps1977 wrote:

whats the price on pci controller cards? could do with one meself
mucho thanx

http://komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=111199&cks=PRL

zod · 18-03-2005 08:06PM

Cheapest way to use the 60GB drive is to buy an enclosure :

Komplette do one ( http://www.komplett.ie/k/ki.asp?sku=123721&cks=SER) - not paticularily cheap

OR this off eBay ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=41911&item=5176398914&rd=1) they ship to Europe.

If you want to start from scratch : http://www.jes-computer.de/product_info.php?pID=18746

adding an extra hard disk in place of a floppy

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