hi
You can attach cd-rom to too small hard disk but you must have enough sapce
for install devices .
for your problem , you must buy a new ide cable with 2  spare connector then
set your cd-rom to slave .


hamid reza fardar
-----Original Message-----
From: Mary Elise Zimlich <[log in to unmask]>
To: pcbuild List Member <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 9:57 AM
Subject: [pcbuild] cd drive on computer with 200MB HD? {01}


>Thanks for the help.
>I got my friends computer open (hope I can close it back up). Indeed the
>hard drive is 200MB. Is it worth putting a cd drive in the computer with
>such a small HD. My feelings are since she won't have room for any programs
>she needs to upgrade the HD, too.
>This is a Compaq Prolinea 4/33S with win 95 (with such a small HD?) and 36
>MB ram, a floppy drive and the tiny hard drive. It's a desktop model and it
>is really proprietary. The ide cable to the HD does not have a spare
>connector and there is not a spot on the
>motherboard for another ide cable. So actually, I don't even know if I can
>put a drive in- I was going to change the cable, but that might not work.
>This may be beyond my level of expertise.
>
>Thanks again,
>Mary
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