Howto Upgrade and Install a New Hard Drive?
Notes: Before you install the new Hard Drive (HD) there are a fewfacts that need to be known. First of all, when installing two hard drives orany two IDE devices on the same IDE Channel (controller) you must reset thejumper settings on both drivers. Set one to Master and theother to Slave. Only two IDE devices will work per IDE Channel,sharing the same IDE cable. There are typically two IDE Channels (Primary and Secondary)on one motherboard for a total of four IDE devices allowed per system. Forexample, if you have a HD and a CD-ROM at the present time, you can add twomore hard drives or one more hard drive and an IDE backup device. If a new harddrive is being installed onto the same Channel as the old one, make sure theoriginal drive is set to Master and the new hard drive is set to Slave or viceversa, depending on which will be the bootable drive. If two hard drives useseparate cables, both may be set as Masters.
Always use your bootable hard drive where your operating system is installed asMaster on the Primary channel. Avoid sharing the IDE cable if you can. If a newhard drive is added to an old one, chances are the new one is faster and hasmore capacity than the older one. We suggest to use the new one as the bootabledrive and the old one as a back up. After all, hard drives are much faster thanthe tape drives as a backup. The chance for two hard drives to go bad at thesame time is very small.
The limitations described above do not apply to SCSI devices. For instance, upto seven SCSI devices can be used for the same SCSI Channel (controller) and noMaster/Slave jump setting is necessary.
Always use your bootable hard drive where your operating system is installed asMaster on the Primary channel. Avoid sharing the IDE cable if you can. If a newhard drive is added to an old one, chances are the new one is faster and hasmore capacity than the older one. We suggest to use the new one as the bootabledrive and the old one as a back up. After all, hard drives are much faster thanthe tape drives as a backup. The chance for two hard drives to go bad at thesame time is very small.
The limitations described above do not apply to SCSI devices. For instance, upto seven SCSI devices can be used for the same SCSI Channel (controller) and noMaster/Slave jump setting is necessary.
1.Power off the computer and remove all cables from the back of the computer.
2. Carefully remove the case screws then remove the case cover.
2. Carefully remove the case screws then remove the case cover.
3. Secure the Hard Drive into the mounting bay using (4) course threadedscrews. (Use the hard drive screws. DO NOT use case screws.)
4. Look at the current configuration of the computer to determine if there isan extra IDE port on your current IDE cable(s). If there are only one IDE cableand already two IDE devices, a new IDE cable must be purchased. Plug the newIDE cable into the Secondary IDE channel on the motherboard. (Be careful, watchthe polarity. Match the red line on the IDE ribbon cable with Pin 1 of the IDEChannel). If there is one IDE cable with only one IDE device or two IDE cableswith three or less IDE devices, there is a spare IDE port.
5. After the drive is secure, plug in the new or spare IDE port to the new harddrive. (Be careful, there is only one way to plug the IDE cable. Red pinclosest to the 4-pin Power.)
6. Plug the P4 Power cable into the new hard drive.
7. Carefully put the case cover back onto the case and secure it with the casescrews that were previously removed.
8. Plug all required cables into the computer and then power up the system.
9. Enter the Computer CMOS and use the Auto IDE Detection feature and then savethe changes made to the CMOS and exit. This will reboot your computer.
10. Now the hard drive is mounted and connected. See next section on how topartition and format a new hard drive.
Howto Partition and Format a New Hard Drive?
1.After you have physically installed the hard drive and detected it in yoursystem BIOS, you will need a Bootable Diskette. This diskette should containthe following Files: Fdisk.exe and Format.com. The diskette you use should be abootable diskette.
2. Insert the bootable diskette into the 1.44MB floppy drive and power on thecomputer.
3. When at the "A:\>" prompt, type DIR and it should show threefiles, Fdisk.exe, Format.com and Command.com.
4. At this point, a Partition is needed so that DOS and Windows will see thenew hard drive. At A:\> type Fdisk then press enter.
5. The First screen is going to ask if Large Disk Support is desired on the newhard drive, if using Windows95, select No. If using Windows98, select yes.
6. At the Fdisk Menu, a new partition is what is needed, select #1 and pressEnter
7. Then Select #1 for Primary DOS partition and press Enter
8. Fdisk will ask if the end-user want to use maximum disk space. This willallow the end-user to set various sizes of partitions to a hard drive.
9. Fdisk will ask the End-user if they want to set a specific name to thepartition, if a name is not desired the press Enter when prompted.
10. After Partition is set, reboot and leave the bootable floppy in the 1.44Floppy Drive.
11. When "A:\>" is up, type Format c: /s/q (/s = make bootable, /q= format quickly)
12. After format is complete, remove the bootable floppy and reboot thecomputer. Now your new hard drive is ready for operating system. Select thefollowing links for installation guides.