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09-30-2004, 03:21 PM
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Roger Jason Adams
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How do you install a hard drive?
I'm a person thats well acquainted with the insides of a computer, but I have never gotten and installed an internal hard drive, and I dont know the first thing to do. Any help?
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09-30-2004, 04:01 PM
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Have you gone to your PC makers website for directions? I know HP/Compaq has step by step instructions.
Not knowing what you have, I just did a simple Yahoo search and found a ton of sites with info..I'm sure you'll find what you need.
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09-30-2004, 04:25 PM
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Are you building a new computer from scratch, or are you adding another one? I just installed one a couple weeks ago for the first time, and it was pretty easy for the most part. Plug it in to the motherboard and the power supply, screw it in to the case, and then configure it to Windows, which was the most time-consuming part, because I got a 160GB hard drive. Microsoft says that Windows SP1 is configured to recognize hard drives that big, but it only showed up as 137GB. It took me an hour or two to figure out how to get it to full capacity (149GB), but the solution turned out to be pretty simple.
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09-30-2004, 05:04 PM
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Make sure the jumper on the back is properly set to either "Master" or "Slave". When 2 drives share an IDE cable, the primary drive is designated Master and the other is the Slave.
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09-30-2004, 05:11 PM
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pretty much any hd you buy will have install instructions.
in a nutshell, (assuming you're adding):
1. get the correct cable to add master/slave
2. set your new hd to slave
3. connect it up
4. go into control panel / admin tools / computer mgmt (i think it's here) and format/mount the drive.
the last hd i installed took me about 10 minutes to intall. a while longer to format (it's a 160g).
go for it, you'll be surprised at how easy it is.
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09-30-2004, 07:22 PM
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3g? wow, i think my os takes up 3g. 
btw, how old is this pc? iirc, some older bios cannot accept really big hd's. they'll only "read" up to a certain amount.
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09-30-2004, 07:39 PM
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Roger Jason Adams
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From '98. I'm going to put something modest like 60 gigs.
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10-01-2004, 05:00 AM
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Make sure your BIOS correctly recognizes the new drive. Old computers do not necessarily support modern large hard drives, but there might be a BIOS update available that you can download to update the BIOS flash yourself.
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10-01-2004, 08:08 AM
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With that old motherboard, your going to most likely have to partition that hard drive like everyone else has suggested. There should be a jumper on it that will limit the space read to 30gigs so that your bios will recongnize it.
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