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How to get additonal e1705 hard drive bracket?

post #1 of 11
7/25/06 at 5:31pm
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I replaced the standard dell hard drive with a 100gig 7200 rpm jobby (original was a 60gb 5400 rpm) and that was fine and dandy.

however, I am finding sometimes I want to go back to use the original drive for backup, having all the dell bloatware, benchmarking without messing up my system, testing things, etc. I would like to buy one of the brackets/hard drive caddies so that swapping them will be much, much easier. Are there any suggestions on where on the Dell site to order such a part?

Thanks!

-Allen
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post #2 of 11
7/25/06 at 5:36pm
hmmm cant you put the old hard drive in a usb 2.0 caddy? not seen any brackets available for the e1705
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post #3 of 11
7/25/06 at 5:42pm
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Originally Posted by doughy
hmmm cant you put the old hard drive in a usb 2.0 caddy? not seen any brackets available for the e1705

Well, I mean I want another of the SAME bracket that already holds the current drive in the laptop

A USB caddy would just be using it as a data drive of my current OS, this other drive holds a whole different OS

-Allen
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post #4 of 11
7/25/06 at 5:46pm
Got one for my 9300 at www.parts-people.com. They don't list any for the E1705. Not sure if the 9300 one would work or not.
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post #5 of 11
7/26/06 at 11:50am

Same with my 710m

My 710m came with a 100gb drive and I have Windows XP loaded on it however I've wanted to try Linux out so I purchased a 60GB Toshiba drive from Best Buy for $70 and installed it and loaded SUSE 10.1. Runs get but I need to do a quicker swap. I got the tray off eBay but still looking for the interposer from drive pins to the board connector. Those are hard to come by... at least from what I can tell. Found one of those on eBay for $40 plus $25 for shipping!!! For an adapter, are they nuts?

I may try the USB route too... I think you can boot via USB... but it'll probably take a bit of performance hit.
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post #6 of 11
7/26/06 at 7:01pm
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Originally Posted by stormbringer
Runs get but I need to do a quicker swap. I got the tray off eBay but still looking for the interposer from drive pins to the board connector. Those are hard to come by... at least from what I can tell. Found one of those on eBay for $40 plus $25 for shipping!!! For an adapter, are they nuts?

http://www.parts-people.com/index.ph...1&prevstart=30
Thias what your looking for? Was in the 9300 section but I think the pin connector is the same for any IDE Dell.
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post #7 of 11
7/26/06 at 7:33pm
Call Dell Spare Parts and order part number G5044.
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post #8 of 11
7/26/06 at 8:30pm
Ebay...

DELL INSPIRON 6000 9200 9300 9400 XPS HD CADDY G5044 (9400 = e1705)

http://cgi.ebay.com/DELL-INSPIRON-60...QQcmdZViewItem


Looks like its the same on for the 9300.
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post #9 of 11
8/1/06 at 7:16pm
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OK I need a little additional help on this one...

When I called dell to order the part they told me I can NOT order this individually, and that if I ordered a hard drive from Dell it would have come with one. They refused to sell them seperately.

The other ones that were posted in this thread seem to be using the IDE connection instead of SATA.

Does anyone have any other resources?

-Allen
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post #10 of 11
8/1/06 at 7:23pm
Did you tell Dell Spare Parts that you damaged the one that came in the system? They would have to sell it to you.
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post #11 of 11
8/1/06 at 7:35pm
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Originally Posted by akm3
OK I need a little additional help on this one...

When I called dell to order the part they told me I can NOT order this individually, and that if I ordered a hard drive from Dell it would have come with one. They refused to sell them seperately.

The other ones that were posted in this thread seem to be using the IDE connection instead of SATA.

Does anyone have any other resources?

-Allen


Far as I know the SATA drives dont have an adapter, they just have SATA plugs like a 3.5 drive.

I carriage should be the same, you just dont need the adpater.

I think...
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