Old HDD on newish computer?

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Nick Lambert

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I have a Dell XPS 410 and its 250GB HDD is full, so I thought that I could use an old, empty one I had lying around, but it uses the really old ribbon cables, but the computer doesn't have a port for it, is there any way that this computer can still access this drive?
 
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No. Even if it did i wouldn't use it because 1) they don't make 90 Degree 4 pin molex adapters for where the hard drives go in those Dell machines. You would have to get a 5.25 to 3.5 adapter kit and put it in the DVD Drive Bay. There are other ways that i recently posted to someone who is trying to do pretty much the same thing here

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2061982/optiplex-745-motherboard-hardrive.html

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