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over video call i told my friend how to take apart an old desktop pc to salvage the hard drive (as everything else is super outdated), but when he took it out is appears as if the drive has been split in half... I have never seen anything like this, is he able to put it back together?

 

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It's just 2 separate molex hard drives...

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Uh... Do you mean RAID? If you mean they split apart physically, that's what 2 normal hard drives should look like.

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2 drives 

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Just now, thegreengamers said:

Uh... Do you mean RAID? If you mean they split apart physically, that's what 2 hard drives should look like.

he says one half says the information (160gb 7200rpm etc) and the other half has warranty information on it

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2 minutes ago, Platinum Fox said:

he says one half says the information (160gb 7200rpm etc) and the other half has warranty information on it

 

3 minutes ago, thegreengamers said:

that's what 2 normal hard drives should look like.

It's probably because it came from a prebuilt system.

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Just now, Platinum Fox said:

https://www.cnet.com/products/emachines-t5082/specs/
this says it only supports 1 drive though...

 

2 minutes ago, Platinum Fox said:

https://www.cnet.com/products/emachines-t5082/specs/
I looked it up and it says it only has capacity for 1 drive...

Raid....

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Those are two different drives. Someone may have added a second one if it wasn't shipped with two. 

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12 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Those are two different drives. Someone may have added a second one if it wasn't shipped with two. 

ok thank you, i was really confused after reading the spec sheet and what he showed me

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