CanI add a second HDD (a slave drive) to an Inspiron 3646? This is a new I 3646, the one it replaced burned up. I managed to save the hard drive and I'd like to install it as a backup drive/extra storage.
The Inspiron 3646 Small Desktop does not support a second 3.5" internal SATA HD, the motherboard has only two SATA connectors, [ Support for 1 x HD and 1 x Optical Drive]. See page 11 of the Owners Manual.
Apparently adding an additional HDD to a Dell Inspirin 3847 is a state secret. I've been trying for two weeks to find the answer to this rather mundane technical problem. Finally out of frustration I hired a (self-described computer expert to solve the problem- He was up my house for nearly three years and still couldn't solved this dilemma. Come on Guys, this is not a secret process for turning lead to gold-can't anyone in East Asia come up with a correct answer.
Yes you can remove the disc drive and install a second hard drive where the disc drive was. I just did it on Friday based on what I read here, with no experience doing this sort of thing (I've had MacBooks/iBooks/Mac Minis my entire life to this point). I'll describe in as much detail the steps I took, but it's pretty self explanatory once you get in there.
5. Attach the bay converter to your hard drive after eyeballing the bay converter, hard drive, and drive cage can all fit together can all fit together so that the hard drive will sit towards the back of the drive cage just like the disc drive did.
Dell has not published the procedures for installing an additional SATA hard drive, the Inspiron 3847 has a second 3.5" bay, for the second hard drive next to the primary hard drive, there should be a set of rails located in the bay, two 6-32X1/4, phillips head screws are needed, to attach the rails.
The procedures on pages 26 to 28 of the owners manual should give you an idea of what is required for the installation.
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You will need another SATA data cable there should be a spare SATA power connector inside the case.
After installing the drive, enter the system setup and check that the hard drive is 'enabled' [on] and recognized.
Hi all, this is the first time using this site. My question is this. I have a master and slave hard drive and I would like to take the two programs that use the most memory and put them along with all the files on the slave and I would like them to operate just as they did on the master drive. I wish to move all my music and photo stuff to slave drive. iTunes, MusicMatch. Adobe CS2 and Elements 3.0
Thanks very much for any help you can give me. Rick
You will have to reinstall the programme to that drive.Then navigate to c\:documents and settings\\sendto.Right click on a blank space in the window and select new/shortcut.A box will appear and navigate to the slave drive.Click next,next,finish.Then go to where your files are located,select all,right click and send to and select your slave drive.Your programmes on the slave drive will already register the files transfered.Then delete the the files and programmes off your primary drive.
Just right Click on [b]My Documents[/b] scroll down to proprieties and change the place that they are stored to [b]D;/Your Name/My Documents.[/b] That will move all the files like MP3 and data that is stored in the My Documents Folder to your Slave Drive. and keep any policies that you have applied like keeping your files Private or Encrypted if you have chosen these.
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If I press F1 and continue to Windows 98, the drive does not show up. However, there is an interesting A drive titled "Removable Disk (A:). I don't have any drives in the computer other than the hard drive and CD ROM, so that is strange to me and perhaps is related.
In the BIOS (AMIBIOS Release 09/12/2002 S), all drives are set to be auto detected. However, if I press enter on the second drive (AKA what should be the CD ROM) which is supposed to detect the type of drive, it sets the type of drive to ARMD (ATAPI Removable Media Device). This is similar to what Windows detects. I have already attempted to set the BIOS to its defaults.
As for physical jumpers, the drive is on the same cable as the hard drive and the jumper is set to slave. This should work as it was what was in the computer originally. I would assume that the drive worked at some point as there was a disk in it when I got the computer.
Moab, in a comment, suggested that a fix could be setting the jumpers on the CDROM and HDD to "cable select" as the motherboard may not work with the master-slave configuration. This fixed the problem, although the CDROM is now master and the HDD is slave. However, this doesn't seem to be causing any problems. The computer boots without the incompatibility error.
My computer is fitted with a slave drive and i have a lot of files on it. I just noticed that my slave drive has disappeared and i cannot access it anymore. I went to Disk Management and this is what i see:
I have a need to decrypt a drive I have slaved to my workstation. The drive was not able to boot into Windows due to the SGNAuthService not running during login. I tried to access the computer remotely so I could edit the registry but during this process the workstation lost its trust to our domain. I needed some data off the disk so I slaved it to my workstation, found the key and assigned it to my user in the Management Center. I was able to get the data I needed. Now I want to reimage the drive, but fist get the encryption off of it to recover all the space. I created a decryption policy so I could decrypt the drive while attached to my workstation but I can't get it to work. The encryption stays greyed out. To verify that I setup the policy correctly and added my machine correctly I created another to decrypt my local drive. This policy works correctly.
Thank you for the reply. The RSOP for my user has the non boot volumes set for no encryption. The default policy is set for users to be able to unencrypt drives, my decryption policy is set to priority 1 with no overrides checked. I can decrypt my boot drive as I also included a policy for that. I can't decrypt a slave drive. I have also tried making a policy for the drive letter. Still a no go.
Solved my problem. The slaved drive was being recognized as removable media, but creating a policy just to decrypt that still didn't work. I had to make a removable media policy that allowed users to decrypt just as with bootable drives. Even though a removable media policy was never created or pushed to my workstations to disallow users to decrypt. Note to people who may run into this.
Edit the default removable media policy to allow users to decrypt, also give the options for users to select encryption or not. Create a removable media policy with "no encryption" and add both policies to your decryption policy group.
How the drive reports in will depend on how you plug it into the machine, typically we recommend plugging the drive directly into the machine as USB caddy doesn't always get accepted. A slaved drive added like any other in the machine should be detected as internal storage and take policies from:
Local Storage Devices > Internal Storage > Non-boot volumes
Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama, was the first slave narrative published by the American Anti-Slavery Society. Scholar John Blassingame notes that today the narrative is most often remembered as a "fraud" because of Southern newspaper columnists' attacks on the veracity of the narrative (p. 477). An abundance of authenticating documents from professional white men (including the famous Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier, who acted as Williams's amanuensis) attested to the "intelligence [and] evident candor" of Williams and "strong confirmation of the truth and accuracy of his story" (p. xvii); yet two months after the narrative's publication, J.B. Rittenhouse, the editor of the Greensborough, Alabama, Beacon, claimed he found factual inconsistencies in Williams's account of his life in Alabama. Rittenhouse argued that the slaveholders and slave driver named in the narrative did not correspond to any people in that area and that there were questionable dates and distances. Scholar William L. Andrews explains that the American Anti-Slavery Society responded to the attacks on the narrative by launching their own investigation into the facts of the narrative. They ultimately determined that while they could not refute Rittenhouse's claims absolutely, especially since James Williams had already left for England, the essence of the narrative was truthful, and the character of the slave had been established by those interviewing Williams (p.87). Andrews also argues that "Whittier and the other abolitionists could not test the validity of Williams's facts; they could only test the man himself as a believable narrator of those facts" (p. 88).
According to the narrative, James Williams was born a slave on May 16, 1805, in Powhatan County, Virginia. His master was George Larrimore, who was also widely known to be his grandfather. James's mother died when he and his twin brother were five years old. As a Larrimore family favorite and playmate of the master's son, young Williams is permitted to travel to Charleston and New Orleans with the family. Williams's luck turns, however, when his master dies, and his former playmate becomes his new master. The new master's wife is a French-speaking Creole from New Orleans who mistreats the slaves when her husband is not there. Told that the family is relocating to Alabama, Williams thinks that he is going down ahead of the family with the master to help prepare for the move, but instead, his master leaves him in Alabama to be the slave driver for the new Larrimore Alabama plantation. Betrayed by his master and unfamiliar with field work, Williams must labor under the cruel overseer, Huckstep, and must use violence to keep his fellow slaves in line.
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