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Thread ID: 10988	2001-08-25 01:37:00	Installing a Second Harddrive	Guest (0)	Press F1

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17554	2001-08-25 01:37:00	Can anyone give me step by step instructions on this or the url of somewhere with an online tutorial?	Guest (0)
17555	2001-08-25 03:03:00	Scott, I have purchased a great book called: 'Upgrading & repairing PC's', by Scott Mueller. You could order this from any bookshop (Borders have it in Auckland), priced at $111/95 I have the 12th edition. I have found this invaluable, with the corresponding website being: www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com You need to have an understanding about BIOS, FDISK, and FORMATTING the drive, - also have an understanding of the cables that link your hard drive to the motherboard (the IDE cable), and what it means to set (through the bios) your drive to MASTER or SLAVE. If this is chinese - then do grab the book above,- certainly have a look at the website - there are step by step instructions for most things - at the end of the day Scott, you will need to do all or some of the following: 1: Configure the second drive 2: Physically install the drive 3: Configure the system 4: Partition the drive 5: High level format the drive Hope this is of some help, Cheers and good luck! Jeff.	Guest (0)
17556	2001-08-25 03:04:00	Scott, I have purchased a great book called: 'Upgrading & repairing PC's', by Scott Mueller. You could order this from any bookshop (Borders have it in Auckland), priced at $111/95 I have the 12th edition. I have found this invaluable, with the corresponding website being: www.upgradingandrepairingpcs.com You need to have an understanding about BIOS, FDISK, and FORMATTING the drive, - also have an understanding of the cables that link your hard drive to the motherboard (the IDE cable), and what it means to set (through the bios) your drive to MASTER or SLAVE. If this is chinese - then do grab the book above,- certainly have a look at the website - there are step by step instructions for most things - at the end of the day Scott, you will need to do all or some of the following: 1: Configure the second drive 2: Physically install the drive 3: Configure the system 4: Partition the drive 5: High level format the drive Hope this is of some help, Cheers and good luck! Jeff.	Guest (0)
17557	2001-08-25 03:30:00	Yea that book is very good, I only have the 8th edition but it still has invaluable information. But this might help if you want to setup the new drive as C: ... 1. Back up your hard disk and prepare a floppy disk from which you can boot your PC (use format A: /s ) and copy the fdisk.exe and format.com programs from the C:\windows\command directory to the floppy. You can also use your Windows 98 rescue diskette. 2. Unplug the computer from mains power. This is important as many computers these days don't shut off power completely when you press the on/off switch. Open up the case and disconnect the power and data cables from the original drive. Remove and save the drive and the mounting rails, if any. Make a note of the new drive parameters (cylinders/heads/sectors per track). You'll find this information on the drive or its wrapper or in the manual. 3. Add the new drive. Mount the drive rails if needed and the drive. If your new drive came with its own mounting screws, use them. If not, use the old ones. 4. Connect the cables. Connect the data cable and power cable. Make sure that the red wire of the data cable is connected to pin 1 of the drive's connector. 5. Reboot and reconfigure. Start up the PC with the boot disk you made. Enter the CMOS setup and enter the new disk parameters if needed ? most modern BIOSes will detect hard drive parameters automatically. Reboot and run FDISK answering Yes to 'Do you want to use Large Disk Support?' to partition the drive as one large, 10GB FAT32 partition. Reboot again and format the new drive (format C: /s). 6. Restore your files. Since any backup software is probably Windows based, you'll need to do a basic install of Windows first. Restore all the files from the backup. If a utility is provided with the drive, use it to copy files from the old drive to the new.	Guest (0)
17558	2001-08-25 07:19:00	I think it is easier than suggested so far, with power off, open case check IDE1 cable (HDD is using), if it has a plug free use that(if not buy one or not recomended: you use the CDROM IDE2 spare plug), set drive to slave using jumpers(key to jumpers will be written on drive usually SL=slave, MA=Master; jumpers are little plugs at the back, connecting two prongs), Turn PC on it should find drive as Primary Slave or Secondary Slave(if using IDE2). If you want this drive as master then change jumpers and position on IDE cable with the current Master. Using boot disk at 'A:\' prompt type 'fdisk' select large drive if thats you, select partition if you want one or two. Format Drive. At 'A:\' prompt type format X: where X is the drive letter. you dont need system files for 2nd drive with no Op Sys. Best boot disk/fdisk site is: www.compguystechweb.com	Guest (0)
17559	2001-08-25 09:01:00	Good on ya Scotty ;)	Guest (0)
17560	2001-08-25 21:58:00	also something to note,the red stripe on the ide cable indicates pin 1,make sure it is connected to pin 1 on the hard drive	Guest (0)
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