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Installing drives, Overview – Dell OptiPlex G1 User Manual

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Installing Drives: Dell OptiPlex GX1 Low-Profile Managed PC Systems

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Installing Drives: Dell™ OptiPlex™ GX1 Low-Profile Managed PC
Systems

Overview

Installing a Drive in the 5.25-Inch Drive Bay

Removing and Replacing Front-Panel Inserts

Installing an EIDE Hard-Disk Drive

Connecting Drives

Installing SCSI Devices

Overview

Your Dell computer has three drive bays for installing the following types of drives (see

Figure 1

)

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 one 5.25-inch bay that can hold one half-height, 5.25-inch
device—typically a tape drive or CD-ROM drive. Alternately, a 3.5-inch device can be installed in the
5.25-inch bay using adapters available from Dell.
The hard-disk drive bay (located to the left of the externally accessible drive bays) can hold a 3.5-inch
enhanced integrated drive electronics (EIDE) or small computer system interface (SCSI) hard-disk
drive.

The next two subsections contain information that you will need in several of the installation procedures
described later in this section. The remaining subsections 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.

Figure 1. Drive Locations