Installing a Hard Disk Drive

The general procedures for installing any hard drive are similar, but the exact steps and the sequence of steps vary depending on the type of drive you are installing—PATA or SATA—and the particulars of your case. The basic steps required to install a hard drive are:

  1. Configure the drive as a master or slave device (PATA only).

  2. Mount the drive in the chassis.

  3. Connect the data cable to the drive and to the PATA or SATA interface.

  4. Connect a power cable to the drive.

    Before you remove the case panels to install the hard drive:

  5. Restart the system and run BIOS Setup. Note the current configuration—which ATA and SATA ports are in use and the descriptions of the devices that are connected to them. Alternatively, use a diagnostic ...

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