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Removing and installing a hard drive...

Discussion in 'Whatnots' started by Sir Belisarius, May 5, 2003.

  1. Sir Belisarius

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    [​IMG] How hard is it? Do I need special equipment? Special tools? Any help from our technical genius community would be great!
     
    Sir Belisarius, May 5, 2003
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    Tools you need: Screwdriver.

    Physically installing the harddrive into the machine is pretty easy (open computer, insert drive, connect cables, possibly a change of jumper settings (should be explained on the disk itself)). Partitioning ("creating" the space where you store your stuff) could be more difficult if you haven't done it before, but I found a good tutorial for the program FDISK here.

    Installing a new harddrive was one of the first things I ever did to my computer, and it wasn't that difficult.
     
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    Well I prefer to use a socket driver where possible instead of a screwdriver but Mollusken is correct in that it is very easy to do. Are you planning on keeping your old hard drive or are you replacing it? If you are just replacing the existing hard drive then it is very simple - just unplug the old drive and put the new drive in the same place.

    If you want to use both hard drives then you have to worry about master and slave settings but the hard drive should come with instructions (usually printed right on the hard drive itself) as to how to position the jumpers. I have a friend who knows next to nothing about computer hardware and he managed to install a second hard drive without too much trouble.
     
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    [​IMG] I installed 2 into my old computer for more room because my dad filled it with rubbish.

    It's pretty simple. Though make sure the CPU is done up. When my dad put new RAM into the computer he didn't screw the case back together so it got crushed when we moved house.

    But I got a new, better, computer out of it :grin:
     
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    just make sure you have your master/slave settings right or it might not show up.
     
    outputrotation, May 5, 2003
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