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    Question about Inspiron 1720

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by makavelii, Feb 12, 2008.

  1. makavelii

    makavelii Newbie

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    I just ordered the laptop a few days ago as my HP Pavillion turned out to be a bust. My big question is whether anyone knows if these laptops have a secondary hard drive bay. If not, how is it possible to use my hard drive from my HP on my dell. I only want to get some files that I didn't have a chance to back up. Secondly, for laptops, is RAM just RAM? Or is there certain RAM for certain laptops?
     
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  2. yourself3082

    yourself3082 Notebook Consultant

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    ye it dose i got my dell with 2 160 gig hdd cheers :)
     
    yourself3082, Feb 12, 2008
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    Sukanta Notebook Guru

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    Ya it has a second bay.. but you need to buy a adoptor from Dell to connect it with motherboard
    Ya In laptop RAM is RAM... the specification is standerd for all laptop.. just make sure you are buying DDR2 667 MHZ laptop Ram sticks
     
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    yourself3082 Notebook Consultant

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    IcEmAn911 Notebook Consultant

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    yes as long as you haven't ordered two hdd's !
     
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    makavelii Newbie

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    So there is a seperate adapter that I'll need to order from dell in order to get the other hard drive to work? Now, that hard drive was the "main" hard drive that has windows vista on it. Will that cause a problem when trying to access the information? Honestly I'm not to familiar with things like this. I normally have everything backed up and usually don't care too much.

    As for the RAM, I just took out the 2 gigs that was in my HP. The HP is not even 6 months old, so I figured the Dells should likely use the same RAM. As far as I know, its DDR2.
     
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  7. yourself3082

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    o ye forgot about ur hp that ram should be fine i guess
     
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