From: Ellen K. 

Actually he was nice enough to show me how to do it.   One of the cables
is able to support two drives, so we moved that one over to the side where
the hard drive is, and put the one with only one on the side with the CD. 
Afterwards I have to trade them out again.   Dell makes it
pretty idiot-proof inside, I actually feel ok about this at this point.
Hope I don't hafta eat those words when I actually try it...  

On Mon, 4 Nov 2002 11:34:08 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>No, there can be any number (probably 2 or 3) of unplugged power cables, but
>you can take any one of those and stick it into a hd, they all carry the
>same power (the ones that are of the same size/shape).
>
>There probably won't be any IDE cables unplugged at all, but those you can
>get from the tech guy when he arrives (he should be carrying a few, as they
>usually come with the drives) - all you need to do is find one that is
>already in the box that looks exactly the same, and goes from the
>motherboard to the existing hd, and right beside where it connects to the
>motherboard is an empty connector - stick one end of the IDE cable there,
>and the other end to the hd.
>
>If it's no go, post here - there can be some jumpers to set, but they are
>easy, too, they can usually be in two or three positions, and you won't
>break anything if they're wrong.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>
>"Ellen K."  wrote in message
>news:ko2bsu49fk0vlmmr6a5ahelu17ip8ddlts{at}4ax.com...
>> Are you saying there are going to be ONLY TWO un-plugged-in cables in
>> the box?
>>
>

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