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you can put any standard IDE drive in that computer. However I would not go above 40 gigs as that was the prevelant size for that era, there had to be bios updates for 64gig or larger if I remember correctly ?
The tension clips you have seen are no biggie; just depress the sides of them and they slide right out, i actually like that part of Dell's
drive cable is standard but they usually use a cable with only one connector >>>> no biggie use any standard 80 wire IDE cable
entering the bios: not sure here havent played with a dell in awhile ???? try tapping F8 ?
you dont have to mess with any bios settings, just make sure there isnt a floppy disk in the drive or cd-disk thats not bootable in the rom drive.
as far as OS goes, it will struggle with win xp (xp is bloated)
win 2000 might cut the mustard you will need to change the bios most likely to start from the CD-rom drive as first boot, if it has that option ?
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