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Removing And Installing A Hard Drive
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Put it off. Click The Banner Above Before you remove the hard drive, you should backup all files on your old drive and capture your system information using a separate utility. Even though you may not need this utility, its worth its weight in gold should something go wrong with the installation of the new drive. We have used a little shareware file named Systeminfo to capture our system information. You can download this file from such internet shareware web sites as http://www.download.com or download it right from our newsletter. Check your documentation to be sure that the new hard drive you buy is compatible with your system. If you don't have the documentation, you can run the system info Utility. Here you will be able to see what type of hard drive you have. Your PC's system setup program will do the same. Write this info down and take it with you when you go to purchase your new drive. The hard drive's Access Time is another consideration you should check into.
The Access Time is the normal time it takes for
the information requested from the disk to arrive to the memory of the
PC. The larger this time is, the slower the hard drive will be. Hard disk
drives can be either internal, (inside the system unit) or external, (outside
in its own case) and they can be removable in some cases. When installing
a hard drive, there is a slight difference, depending on the type of drive
you own. The following steps to installing a hard drive may vary slightly. Be sure to check the installation procedures that came with your new drive to check for any differences in installation. If you purchased or was given a hard drive from a friend and don't have any paper- work for the drive, the following steps should suffice in installing and configuring your new drive.
Before you remove the system unit cover to gain access to your hard drive, remember to remove any and all ESD (Electrical Static Discharge) from your body. This is done by touching an object such as a doorknob or the case of the system unit. After this safety precaution is done, remove the system unit cover and locate the drive.
Remember, you create a bootable floppy disk by formatting a blank diskette with the command of FORMAT A:/S. Then edit the Autoexec.Bat and Config. Sys files and change all files where you see something like C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS to A:\DOS\ANSI.SYS and change only the C: after the = sign. After editing all files, save all changes and copy both the Autoexec.bat and Config.Sys files to the diskette.
It would be good
to copy some of the helpful Dos utilities such as Scandisk.exe and FDISK.
exe to your bootable diskette. Once you have started your computer with
the bootable diskette, enter the setup by pressing CRTL-ALT-S, CRTL-ALT-INS,
or whatever combination of keys will access of your computer's setup program.
Then enter the new drive's type, cylinder and any other very information
it needs to complete the setup. Then be sure to save the new information
in the setup. If your new drive came with a owner's manual, keep it handy for future reference and you may need it to config your drive. Even though you have installed the drive with its cable, the computer doesn't know that you have done this. So we must tell the PC and while we are at it, we must make the drive useable by partitioning and formatting it.
Setting up the Small Computer System Interface drive
requires an ID number from 0 to 7, in which the SCSI controller must use
one of these. SCSI controllers are long and have a control mounted on
it. Most SCSI drives ID numbers are set at 7, but the accompanying manual
should tell you the number. If the drive you
have installed is external, there should be two connectors with one accepting
the cable from the external connector on the SCSI adapter and the other
having a cable attached to hook up another SCSI device. If no other device
is to be connected, attach the terminator that should have came with the
drive in this connector. You can use the cable and terminator on either
connector.
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