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the cable length is too long.
A single MBR-Style disk can contain a maximum of four primary partitions.
Usb, cd/dvd, network/download/, by Removing HDD (put HDD in secondary Slot in Another PC with its own HDD and Formet it).
disabling the HDD
It all depends on your motherboard and case. I can have 8 drives in my case, but with my motherboard I can only have 8 SATA connections. So if you want an optical drive you have to sacrifice a HDD. However with HDD's being as cheap as they are you shouldn't need too many.
xbox hard disk drives (hdd) are locked, you have to lock a non-xbox hdd to make it work. but you will have to understand the engineering of the hdd in order to make sure that it is compatible with the system. not many are compatible. most times it is best to modd the old xbox in order to add a second hdd. after modding it you can modd a controller cable to become a USB cable.
You perform HDD recovery on a laptop computer. There are many steps you have to go through to perform a HDD recovery. There are sites on the Internet that can help walk through the process.
on a single hdd you can get up to 2TB but then new ones are coming out every day and there are lot of different types of HDD's the new ones might have many hdd's in one box if you like but at the moment it only goes up to 2TB per 1HDD. There also are SDD's but they have very little storage space but are much more resistant to shocks like drops.
Your hard disk drive (Or HDD) is the equipment that stores all the data on your system. This includes all save data, downloads, and user account on your system. Without an HDD the PS3 could not function properly.
you can have as much as ur HDD can had So if you want pring any 1 TB HDD and install 100s of OS's
HDD RPM speed ?
You can't upgrade much apart form the system version and HDD however upgrading HDD will void your warranty... So you can't upgrade any hardware without voiding your warranty.