Harddrive Installation


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ive decided im going to buy a harddrive resonably soon. I was going to get an external to save on installation but realised you could get a much better internal for much less. anyway i was wondering if they are easy to install, baring in mind i have NO experience at anything hardware-wise. Also is there a high-risk factor to the computer if i fucked it up?
 
Its fairly easy, well was for me. its even easier if your setting it as a slave drive cuz you don't need to reinstall the OS. just shearch google for a guide its fairly easy dependingon what your doing...
 
yeah i just looked at that...seems like i could do it but you never know. would it be a lot simpler to set it as a slave drive because that is what i'd be doing
 
Just make sure that you are using 3 drives or less (if it's IDE you are using) not including floppy drive(s), that you have a drive slot left in your case, and that you touch the powersupply before you do anything else with the computer (grounds you so you don't static electrocute the parts.)

Then set the jumpers on the HD to slave (or master if you want to re-install the OS on that HD) and boot the computer with a startup disk w/ fdisk on it to format/partition the HD... Oh, and I just found out all this a few weeks ago (so it might not be 100% accurate) because I'm building a comp in:

1 month 7 days 7 hours 22 minutes 58 seconds or
5 weekends or
37 days or
871 hours (581 waking hours) or
52,282 minutes or
3,136,977 seconds

:p
 
much easier to set a slave drive should say how to set the jumpers right on the HD it self.

I was going to make it a master but they guy who built the comp for us never gave us the floppy to install windows


www.bestbuy.com I got mine from them for $60 and it was 120 GB not sure if they still have it but its good and fast
 
divadsci posted on Feb 2 2004 at 06:31 PM said:
whats all this about only ebing able to use a master hard drive to store the OS on. ive got a pc running windows 98 on a slave.
well..... your special....


O yea sometimes it could be hell but its fairly easy w/ the one I got
 
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divadsci posted on Feb 2 2004 at 10:31 PM said:
whats all this about only ebing able to use a master hard drive to store the OS on. ive got a pc running windows 98 on a slave.
yeah, don't you just set the drive you want to boot to in the mobo bios?
 
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