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IBM Thinkcentre - Slave drive capability?

I have an IBM Thinkcentre 8172-Y1L 3.2Ghz Desktop Computer. It's a great unit but I would like to upgrade the hard drive memory. Does anyone know if this unit can be installed with a secondary internal slave drive, or does it only accomodate one drive due to its compact size? I hate to start from stratch if avoidable, but have not been able to find a reliable external hard drive unit option.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    No, it only has a single hard drive bay by design. However, you could install a second if you are willing to ditch the floppy drive and put the second drive in that bay.

  • mgo316
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Most likly if its a slim line computer you probably cant run 2 hard drives but you can increasee the size say from 200gb to 500 hope this is help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • izak
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    no longer all disks come preformatted. seek for or Run "diskmgmt.msc" to open up the Microsoft's Disk administration window. in the backside a million/2 of the window, you could as properly see your lacking hard force, marked "no longer initialized" proper click it to initialize and then create the partition(s) you decide on interior that gadget.

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