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Dell 4700 recognizing Linspire
...I have that machine, the Dell 4700, and my initial start with Linspire was trying out a Live version of Linspire on the 4700, and yes, its SATA hard drive recognized Linspire (live) just fine.
...my only possible "problem" with Linspire as to hard drives getting recognized, is that when I subsequently put in a separate hard drive-though an ATA, and I wasn't sure where to put it so I put it on a "slave" connection off the ribbon to the CD-ROM--the 2nd hard drive got recognized "only too well"--to the point that only the second drive is recognized. The original, SATA drive, is something I so far cannot get back into.
But I'm loathe to play around too much with trying to defeat this problem, since the Linspire installed on the 2nd drive, is working so well...and because until it was only popping in the Linspire cd to try to install it on the 2nd drive, which got that 2nd drive to "work" in the first place. That is, upon physically installing the 2nd drive, the machine wouldn't recognize it despite various attempts to change the bios settings...and it was putting in the Linspire 5.0 cd that quickly got 150 something gig of the 160 g hard drive recognized... as well as Linspire installed almost automatically...all in about five minutes.
I still might try to get the machine to once again be able to recognize the original SATA drive, on the thought that I might for a while at least, feel a bit unready to COMPLETELY give up Windows on this machine.
Really, I think it should be possible to get both hard drives recognized, unless there's just too much complication from the limited options of where to plug in a second hd that's ATA/IDE, since there is only one ATA cable with two plugs on it and the CD rom already on one of them. Or maybe also complication just because in my case the second hd available is different type from the original drive, they being respectively ATA and SATA.
B0ut anyway, back to the original question, I can report that for me, Linspire (5.0, live version at least) yes recognized the 4700 SATA drive just fine.
P. S. I have not spell checked this post, sorry, but I'm being refused entry to the Spell Check facility apparently over a log-in question (how does the software here think I entered into the forum and am typing here, if I didn't log in?), and from my experience, if I try to re-log in instances like this on other forums, I usually lose the whole post...so I'll just post this glitches and all if any. EI
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