The most popular and probably the easiest upgrade project for PC enthusiasts is still installation of a new hard drive. It’s just a matter of time before terabyte-eating applications demands an upgrade to a bigger and faster hard drive.You should plan to make your new drive your primary drive, the new home for your Operating System. This is simply because your new hard drive will be bigger and faster. The old drive would normally then become your secondary hard disk and you may use it for archives etc.
Your PC’s existing Hard Drive from future problems. Make sure the current drive in your PC is trouble-free. Run Scan Disk followed by the Disk Defragmenter. These tests could take hours to complete but you will save time and headaches later in the installation process by ensuring that you will be copying error-free data.
Almost all hard drives ship with installation software that takes care of formatting and partitioning. Some will even help you transfer data from your old disk to the new one. You must run most installation software before you physically install the new drive. You will either install and run the software from within Windows, or boot from a floppy disk.
Turn off your computer and unplug it before you remove the cover. Before you begin working inside your PC, put on an antistatic wrist strap. You can get this from local electronics supply stores. Clip it to a grounded metal object. It’s advisable to install your new drive as the second drive on the primary IDE channel. This is exactly the same channel where the current drive is connected. When two IDE drives are connected to a single cable, one must be designated ‘Master’, and the other ‘Slave’.
Install the new drive. Attach the two connectors on the new ribbon cable to both your hard disks. Make sure the red wire goes to Pin 1. Also make sure the other end of the cable is connected to the primary IDE connector on the motherboard, and that it’s correctly connected so that the red wire on the cable goes to Pin 1 on the motherboard connector. At last you have to finish up normally.
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