installing another hard drive

nixxy83
nixxy83 Member Posts: 9 New User
edited March 2023 in 2016 Archives

I am planning on getting a predator dfesktop and it says about the expansion bay, if i buy the right size drive do i just turn my computer off, take the bay out, put the drive in it and put the bay back in and done? im not paying pc world £40 to do this for me

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  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
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    nixxy83 wrote:

    I am planning on getting a predator dfesktop and it says about the expansion bay, if i buy the right size drive do i just turn my computer off, take the bay out, put the drive in it and put the bay back in and done? im not paying pc world £40 to do this for me

    if your G3-710 has only one HDD, yes you can do it as you wrote. 

    bay is for 5.25" HDD

    I'm not an Acer employee.

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  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    Predator model?

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • nixxy83
    nixxy83 Member Posts: 9 New User

    says g3

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer

    G3-605

    or

    G3-710

    ?

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • nixxy83
    nixxy83 Member Posts: 9 New User

    710. sorry thought i put that part in

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
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    nixxy83 wrote:

    I am planning on getting a predator dfesktop and it says about the expansion bay, if i buy the right size drive do i just turn my computer off, take the bay out, put the drive in it and put the bay back in and done? im not paying pc world £40 to do this for me

    if your G3-710 has only one HDD, yes you can do it as you wrote. 

    bay is for 5.25" HDD

    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • nixxy83
    nixxy83 Member Posts: 9 New User

    5.25" hdd? glad i asked cause i was told i need 3.5" do you have any recommendations i can look at on amazon?

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    Let me double check it
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    3.5" HDD is OK

    Sorry i confused with another model
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • nixxy83
    nixxy83 Member Posts: 9 New User

    that is ok, thank you so verymuch for all your help, i very much appreciate you taking the time to help me

  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    You welcome.
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • IronFly
    IronFly ACE Posts: 18,413 Trailblazer
    And remember to buy a spare SATA cable too.
    I'm not an Acer employee.
  • vadersson
    vadersson Member Posts: 2 New User

    Hi there,

     

    I have a Predator G3-710 and I have an hard drive from my old computer this is replaceing.  I found a spot for it and there is one open SATA port too.  So I hooked it all up but the computer won't find the drive in Windows.  The Intel Rapid Storage Technology program knows it is there, but it reports it as incompatable due to being part of a raid on the last computer.  All the help documents say that I should just delete the volume (since I already have the data saved) and recreate a new volume.  However, there are no actual options in the IRST program to do that.  Does Acer lock the configuration for the HDDs?  I can't modify anything on the preinstalled HDDs either.

     

    I figured that this topic was a good one to extend with this question.

     

    Thanks,

    Duncan

     

    Nevermind, I moved this to my own new topic.

     

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