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April 1st, 2003 12:00

2nd hdd caddy

dell c600 laptop

I know this question has been asked many times.

What i need is a part number for the caddy that holds a second hard disk,

the one that slots into the fdd/cd bay at the front of the laptop.

I've ordered part number 29mfn but this is just the cover of the main hdd

Thanks

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April 1st, 2003 15:00

There may be more than one part number; the one I have is 603NY-A00. These are sold on Ebay as 2nd Harddrive Modules and usually no part number is given, as was the case with mine. You should try to get one that has the screws included, as they are difficult to come by after-the-fact.

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October 27th, 2004 22:00

Hi I wonder if you can help me...I see you also have a hard drive 603NY-a00.  Mine came without any cd.  Do you know where I can get the driver or do you know the name of the driver file?

I have been hunting on the dell site to no avail

 

thanks

Susan

 

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October 28th, 2004 00:00

The generic Drivers installed by Windows 98/ME/2000/XP are all you need. The Module will be recognized as the Master drive in the Secondary IDE Channel, the same as the CDROM when it is installed, so no jumper is required. Just cold swap them out when the laptop is off and then start up. BIOS will pick them up.

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October 28th, 2004 11:00

Thank you yes it does see it there but does not show up in my computer as having a drive letter assigned.  Is there something I should do?

 

thanks

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October 28th, 2004 16:00

Did you mount the Drive in the Module circuit board side up? Did you remove any jumper present on the 4 pins used for that purpose? Did you check the drive with Fdisk using a W98 Boot disk, delete any partitions, and  recreate a Primary DOS Partition only? The drive should be recognized by Windows and you should be able to format it under Windows. What size drive and where did it come from? This a bunch of questions, but this way of troubleshooting is literally shooting in the dark.

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October 28th, 2004 17:00

thank you for your excellent help.  After reading your response I realised I needed to format the drive through windows...it now recognises the drive

 

thanks so much

 

Susan

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October 28th, 2004 19:00

You're welcome and glad I could help.
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