cheebahawk

Hi guys, Its the small mini-tower version I have, which does have space for additional drives. It also has connections for both IDE and SATA. The concern I had was whether its ok to have both an IDE and a SATA drive connected to the computer at the same time. I've got a windows xp restore disk that came with the machine.

Hi, I bought a refurbished Dell Optiplex GX270 (tower) with the intention of upgrading it. There is currently a 40Gb IDE hard drive installed. I'm currently trying to work out if I can install a secondary SATA hard-drive to give me additional space for music files etc. Or would the 2nd drive also have to be IDE? Or would I be better off just taking the orginial hard-drive out and replacing it (with IDE or SATA?)? Also, although there are free slots for additional hard-drives, they don't have the green plastic brackets in them. Does anyone know where I can get them in the UK? Any help/tips/advice would be appreciated. Thanks