Installing a New Hard Drive

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Installing a New Hard Drive

• Arnie Jordan
• Douglas High School

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Installing a New Hard Drive

• Adding a drive to your existing system

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Installing a new hard drive

• This installation assumes you are using IDE
  drives
• Usually a maximum of 4 drives
• SCSI is similar
• Instead of setting master and slave
• Set different ID numbers for each device
• The last device in the chain (max 15) is set to
  terminate

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Why install a new drive?

• As you use your computer the hard drive fills up
  with software and files 
• A new hard drive will give you additional storage
• You could also set up another hard drive for
  running a dual OS (such as Win 98 or Linux)
• You could use it as your swap drive to improve
  your virtual memory

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Why install a new drive?

• A newer hard drive will likely be faster than
  your old one
• A new hard drive could speed up your computer

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Check before you buy

• Remove the case cover
• Make sure you have room for another hard drive! 
• Make sure you have a place where the hard drive
  can be installed!
• There should be a 3 ½ inch drive bay for an
  extra hard drive

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Check before you buy

• You need to have an extra connector on an IDE
  cable
• Or an extra connector on the motherboard possibly
  requiring another IDE cable
• The IDE cable should reach where you plan on
  putting the hard drive

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Check your physical settings

• Check all or your current IDE devices to see what
  the jumper settings are
• Most IDE devices (Hard Drive, CD, etc.) will have
  jumpers
• Look for a description somewhere on the drives of
  what those jumpers mean
• Your current hard drive should be set as master
• For each cable, if there are two devices on it,
  one should be Master, and one should be Slave

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Check your physical settings

• If there is a CD-ROM drive on the cable you are
  putting the new drive on, you will want to change
  the CD-ROM drive to slave and set the new hard
  drive as master
• You also want to set the jumper on your boot hard
  drive as the Primary Master
• One IDE connector is Primary, the other is
  Secondary, as labeled on your motherboards IDE
  connectors

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Install the new drive

• Insert the hard drive in a bay
• It should receive good air flow to keep it cool
• The enclosed side of the hard drive should be on
  top
• The connector should face towards the motherboard
  so that you can plug it in
• Carefully secure the drive with mounting screws
• Use minimum of four screws or vibration will
  damage the drive

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Connect the hard drive power

• Locate an extra power supply connector and
  connect the molex plug to the hard drive
• The plug is shaped to fit only one way

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Connect the IDE cable

• IDE cables have a stripe on one side
• The stripe indicates the 1 pin on the drive and
  the motherboard connectors
• Blue connector attaches to the motherboard
• Gray connector is in the middle of the cable and
  goes to any slave drive
• Black connector goes to the master drive (or a
  single drive if only one is used)

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Connect the IDE cable

• Plug your IDE cable into the hard drive
• Plug the IDE cable into the motherboard

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Close up your case

• Next time----
• Setting up the new hard drive with fdisk and
  format
• That's it!

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