Install a new Hard Drive

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Install a new Hard Drive

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Name: Stugots
Date: February 9, 2003 at 09:11:44 Pacific
Subject: Install a new Hard Drive
OS: Windows 98
CPU/Ram: PII

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I need to install a new hard drive but i dont really know how to go about what to do after physically installing it. ie settings, bios, cmos, installing the Operating system and anything else!?!. Anything i need to be looking out for? I want to add win 98 to the kinda old pentium 2 machine.

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Response Number 1

Name: efabes
Date: February 9, 2003 at 09:40:25 Pacific

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Your old mobo may not support a newer ata66/100 hdd. You will probably need to use the software that comes with the hdd. It is possible it won't work, depending on your mobo.

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Response Number 2

Name: Stugots
Date: February 9, 2003 at 10:06:01 Pacific

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whats a mobo?

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Response Number 3

Name: ...
Date: February 9, 2003 at 10:13:30 Pacific

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mobo is short for motherboard.
adding a new hard drive isn't that hard. If you already have 4 ide devices, you'll need to buy a controller card (if the hard drive is bigger than 137gig, than it sometimes come with one free).
Once you have the hard drive, change the jumpers so it's set as master or slave (as needed), and plug it in. Just make sure the hard drive is master if it's alone on the ide channel, or if you are adding it to a cdrom or dvd drive (set that as slave).
bios should recognize it already (if not, the hard drive might come with a disk that'll configure it for you). To install the OS, just follow the instructions for it.

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Response Number 4

Name: cykage
Date: February 9, 2003 at 10:14:04 Pacific

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mobo = Motherboard ;)

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Response Number 5

Name: michael2
Date: February 9, 2003 at 14:10:53 Pacific

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If you are installing a new HD, you will probably need to fdisk it then format before you can install an OS. You will also need a start up (boot) disk...
http://fdisk.radified.com/

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