how do i install a dell latitude c640 2nd hard drive?
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There is only 1 opportunity. a 2nd hard drive can only be installed in place of your dvd/cd rom drive. for that reason you need a "Latitude Caddy Module 2nd hard drive" for C640. this is a case that looks like the one of the dvd/cd drive.\n\nIn this caddy you build in the hard drive and put it in your pc. the drive will be recognised automatically by the operating system.\n\nSuch caddies can you find on ebay.\n\nIn case you want to install a big HD (80, 100 or 120 GB), be aware that you eventually have to upgrade the BIOS. These upgrades can be found on the Dell homepage.\n\n------\n\nAnother solution would be, you buy a 2.5" USB case and use the 2nd HD externally. But this makes little sense, because the USB interface of the C640 is a v1.1 and therefore the disk would be very slow. The speed can be increased, if you use a USB 2.0 PCMCIA adapter card (it's about 6 times faster than USB 1.1. It's not 40 times faster like many vendor promise - i'm using such a configuration).
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Check your jumper settings on your drive, go to your Bios setup and make sure the drive is there, make your cd rom first boot device, then hard drive second boot device
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It should be USB so if you are using Windows XP it will automatically install the correct drivers. If you have any other O/S you will need to use the driver CD that came with the drive.
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latops have special hard drives, search computer websites, such as newegg, and find laptop hard drives, that support sata 150, this is the kidn dat works with dell inspiron 6000\nbut the rband does not make a difference, in fact go for a hitachi or a toshiba
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Looks like you have done most of the troubleshooting. Call up Dell. They would assist you in probably replacing the drive if the system is within contracts.\n\nBut they might ask you to repeat the steps you carried out and a few more, just to make sure its not the fault with the operating system.\n\nGood Luck!
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The easiest way would be to take the hard drive out of the laptop and hook it up to another PC.  There's no need to buy anything extra if you've got an extra bay available.  \n\nHere's a good tutorial for it:\nhttp://www.ehow.com/how_6030_install-second-hard.html\n\nWhen you're done copying, just unhook it from the data cables and power supply.  That's it.
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you can get bootdisk at www.bootdisk.com\nas for the rest, you might have it ( 98 ) allready on the computer in a reserve directory as some computer manufactuers save it on ther rather than giving you the disk
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DJ Rick is right.  Remove the hard drive and either set the drive as a primary slave in another computer, or get a external hard drive kit for notebook hard drives (about $30) and install the drive into it.  It converts the harddrive into an external hard drive.  You connect it to a computer via USB and plug in the a/c power cord to supply power to the drive and that's all here is to it.  Should take you under 5 minutes to assemble the hard drive into an external hard drive kit.  CompUSA carries the kits.  Good luck.
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reload it with a dell operating system disc
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open the case...you will have to figure that out on your own. most likely removing screws on the back. look for the old hard drive. NOW before you touch ANYTHING, touch a bare metal spot on your case to remove any static electricity you may be carrying. there will be a wide flat grey ribbon cable on the back of the hard drive. carefully remove it from the hard drive only. there will also be a smaller white plug with 4 wires unplug that too. Most hard driver are held in by 4 screws. remove them and slide out the old drive. slide in the new drive, the 4 screws, and the 4 wire cable and flat ribbon cable. the connectors are keyed and only go in one way. that was the easy part. now you need to install the operating system. boot the computer up and pop in your o/s disc, then reboot. you will want to boot from the cd, with cd support. when you see the A:/ prompt. type in "fdisk" with out the quotation marks and hit enter. follow the prompts with yes to everything until you get to the menu screen. here you need to create a primary dos partition using all available hard drive space. when it done, reboot by pushing and holding down on the power button until it shuts down. start it up again and boot from the cd with cd support. this time you can start installing windows(98 or ME). when asked if you want to format, yes you do. when thats done, the o/s should start to install(we having fun yet?).....good luck
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1) if it's a power supply issue, replace the power supply in the host machine.\n\n2)You can pull the drive and install it as a secondary internal drive in another machine.\n\n3)Buy an external usb or firewire enclosure, install your hard drive in it. And now you have the ability to connect that hard drive to any computer with a usb or firewire connection.
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ah newbies :-)\n\nif you dont have anything valuable on your Disk, boot up your computer in Dos prompt or Comamnd Prompt or Safe made then open Command Prompt.\n\nWhen your in there run the command \n"Chkdsk" this will scan your C drive for errors.\n\nif it still doesnt work try "fdisk". Its another utility to help "seperate" them. \n\nIf your not comfortable playing around with your computer, start it up regualry, right click C: (or w/e hard drive) Properies tools, Check for Errors or something along those lines it should be under Defragmat. \n\nCheck "fix automatically" \nIt will say "its in use check disc next time the system rebbots"  click yes\n\nnow reboot, you can expect you computer to be doing this for at least an Hour.\n\ngood luck
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You can also upgrade from Windows 98. Boot from the Win 98 CD and format the hard disk, then install.
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You are going to need a new case (commenly refered to as a shell) for that machine... repairing the power socket is tricky. its best to swap out the parts into a new shell. sniff around on e-bay or if the machine is under warrenty contact dell and have them send you a new shell and put the HD memory and drive in yourself...
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Easy!  You need one available 5 1/4" drive bay.  Be sure computer is turned off and/or unplugged. Remove the plastic cover of the bay where you want to place it.  If there is metal shielding behind the plastic then just knock or bend it out (don't worry it's designed for this). Open Computer Case on left side facing front. Remove the DVDRW drive from packaging.  If it is to be in addition to another CD drive, then on the back of the new unit there are three two pin jumpers.  Master, Slave, Cable Select.  Make sure it's jumped as a Slave if it isn't already, as the one already in the system is probably already set to Master.  Slide the new unit into place (from the front).  The EIDE ribbon cable connected to existing CD should have 1 extra 'polarized' port (it only goes one way correctly -- look for nitch or missing pin).  Now look at the existing CD again, you will notice a white plastic end with four wires going into it which is connected to the drive.  This is the Power connect.  Find another like it dangling around, and connect it to the new unit, again it can only go one right way -- don't force it!  Before closing up the computer, go ahead and start it up.  Bamm!, you should be able to see it in the POST.  Otherwise look for it in My Computer or Windows Explorer (assuming you're using MS Windows).  If it came with software such as Nero, install that now and you should be able to start burning away.  If all is well, you may now close the case.  Cheers!\nOh, and be sure to use at least two screws catty-corner to secure it, you may use the other two on the other side if you wish.
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You either hook it up to a USB port or Firewire port(IEEE 1394). Then you install the driver for it, and after you do that, you will find it (it will be name :C, :D, etc) in My Computer. They work the same way as a regular hard drive, but its connected to the computer in a different way. \n\nInfo on Hard Drives:\nhttp://computer.howstuffworks.com/hard-disk.htm
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you need a 2.5in hard drive convertor.  It takes a laptop hdd and lets you connect it to a 40pin hdd controller in a regular comptuter.  Places to get the product below....