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The advice you have had on the power cable covers the ground.  There may be 
another way to deal with the ribbon cable.  I assume the CD-ROM is IDE 
and that you have two IDE headers, with a cable from each, at least one 
of the cables having two connectors for drives, and both cables are 50cm 
long.  In other words, the problem is that the cable won't stretch from 
one HDD to the other.

Run one cable thus: IDE Header - CD-ROM - New HDD (although the order of
the drives doesn't matter) and the other cable thus: other IDE header - 
old HDD.  Set the jumpers on both HDDs to master and the jumper on
the CD-ROM to slave.  The boot HDD will be the one cabled to IDE header 
1, and you can swap them by swapping the cables.

There is an urban myth that this will slow down your HDD - don't be put
off by it: conflicts between IDE devices can slow them down, but it
depends on brands, models and what is slaved to what, and CD-ROMs are no
worse than other hard drives. 


Andy K (andyk@netspace.net.au) wrote:
: I have  installed a second hard drive but cannot connect it because
: a) there is no available power connector. The only spare connector is about
: 1/2 the width of the one that plugs into the drive. Is it possible to buy an
: adapter for this connector so it can be plugged into the hard drive?
: b)the data cable connector will not reach the second hard drive in its bay
: under the CD Drive. Is it possible to buy a new short  cable to run off the
: data cable or should I buy brackets and relocate the second hard drive?
: Please advise.
: Thanks
: Andy K.
: 
: 

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