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Story: PC makers find ways to extend XP's life

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1 SATA. Yup

It's one of those compact desktop things. There is only physical room in the box for the laptop-style DVD drive and one hard drive. In fairness, putting another SATA port on the board would be pointless.

If I was upgrading to another hard drive, I'd do what I ended up doing - plug one in internally and the other via a USB adaptor. Boot off a CD to mirror the drives and resize the partitions on reboot.

And I'm sure a generic Dell CD would have been fine... if I had one at all! I'm in France and the people in charge of purchasing are in the UK. They have a habit of removing all the CDs and so forth before they ship the kit out to us. Not very useful...

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