Dell has not sold a DVD burner for your system, but they are available on-line if you search. You can search the Inspiron boards for information on the I8200 to see what others have already found.
Let me try to answer your questions. First off, the C840 is a C-Series Latitude. I own one of these, and use the same accessories as with my 5 year old CPi. Additionally, the CPx, and C800 use the same components (again from personal experience). The only exception to the compatibility of old components are some of the older batteries will not work in the new notebook, as they are only 3000 mAh, which is not powerful enough to run the P4m system.
Yes, the I8200 and the C840 are the same system. The only real difference is in the BIOS (and therfore the port replicators they can use).
You used to be able to by just the modular adapter from Dell, but I don't think that they sell them separately any longer. You can still find them sold on eBay, and a few other places if you are willing to look. I bought mine from Dell for about $35, and they were going for about $70 on eBay at the same time. Formatting is quite easy using the Disk Management tool (part of the Computer Mangement of XP).
Actually, people who ar enot new, still have questions. Sometimes it is due to lack of experience, or just from lack of use. I often forget how to do things if I haven't done them for several years.
I have dell latitude cs600 and I just got a modular bay drive which I got installed with win2k and a few applications. However, on my primary drive I have win XP. If you have any experience with working with multiple OS particularly of this configuration can let me know what I might need to do. I have checked some of the resources on microsoft.com site and all that I found was the XP and win2k should have the greatest compatibility of the OS combinations out there e.g. file systems. My reading seems to indicate win 2k needs to be installed first and then XP. XP is my native work environment while win2k is a demo platform so I would like to keep win2k in the modular bay and selectively boot using multi-boot.
JersWork
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November 11th, 2003 02:00
Dell has not sold a DVD burner for your system, but they are available on-line if you search. You can search the Inspiron boards for information on the I8200 to see what others have already found.
The hard drives are available, and Dell even sells them. Here is one that they offer: http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/ProductDetail.aspx?category_id=5704&keyword=&mnf=&prst=&prEnd=&sku=A0062233&mnfsku=&SearchType=&Page=productlisting.aspx&spagenum=2&Pageb4Search=&InStock=&items_per_page=25&orderby=&mnfname=&brand=&SubmitSearch=&image_flag=True&refurbished=&c=us&l=en&cs=19&iCompatid=
skrface
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November 11th, 2003 15:00
Thanks for the response, I didn't notice my model number listed their,so does any c series modular work?
I take it the 840 and the 8200 and are the same? Is it possible to buy an enclosure and a separate hard drive?
Seems like it would be a little more reasonably priced that way. What about formatting? I am running Windows
XP professional. And has always thanks for the help.
... I am new at this can you tell?
JersWork
770 Posts
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November 11th, 2003 19:00
Let me try to answer your questions. First off, the C840 is a C-Series Latitude. I own one of these, and use the same accessories as with my 5 year old CPi. Additionally, the CPx, and C800 use the same components (again from personal experience). The only exception to the compatibility of old components are some of the older batteries will not work in the new notebook, as they are only 3000 mAh, which is not powerful enough to run the P4m system.
Yes, the I8200 and the C840 are the same system. The only real difference is in the BIOS (and therfore the port replicators they can use).
You used to be able to by just the modular adapter from Dell, but I don't think that they sell them separately any longer. You can still find them sold on eBay, and a few other places if you are willing to look. I bought mine from Dell for about $35, and they were going for about $70 on eBay at the same time. Formatting is quite easy using the Disk Management tool (part of the Computer Mangement of XP).
Actually, people who ar enot new, still have questions. Sometimes it is due to lack of experience, or just from lack of use. I often forget how to do things if I haven't done them for several years.
mohana
3 Posts
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November 26th, 2003 02:00
I have dell latitude cs600 and I just got a modular bay drive which I got installed with win2k and a few applications. However, on my primary drive I have win XP. If you have any experience with working with multiple OS particularly of this configuration can let me know what I might need to do. I have checked some of the resources on microsoft.com site and all that I found was the XP and win2k should have the greatest compatibility of the OS combinations out there e.g. file systems. My reading seems to indicate win 2k needs to be installed first and then XP. XP is my native work environment while win2k is a demo platform so I would like to keep win2k in the modular bay and selectively boot using multi-boot.
Thanks