Installing a Hard Drive [Physical Installation]

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• Back up your hard drive, turn the computer off, unplug it, and take the case off. You'll want to make sure you back up your old drive. You can do this with a tape-backup drive, a ZIP drive, or the old-fashioned and very inconvenient floppy drive.
• Remove the cables from the old drive. There is a ribbon cable and a power cable, just like a floppy drive. Don't force them. Sometimes, the power connector can become stuck. Just rock it back and forth, taking care not to rip the connector off the drive.
• Remove the mounting screws that hold the drive in place. It may take some card removal to get at the screws.
  Remove the old drive from the computer. Be sure not to damage any cards or boards on the way out.
• Slide the new drive in right where the other one came out. If the new one is smaller, you may need to add rails or a mounting bracket to make it fit. If you are adding a second drive, just slide it in an empty bay.
• Add a new controller card if you need one. If you are replacing a non-IDE drive with an IDE drive, you'll need to throw a new IDE controller card in.
• Attach the cables to the hard drive. Just like a floppy drive, connect the ribbon cable and the power cable. The ribbon cable goes from the controller to the drive. Make sure the red edge is in line with Pin 1. Placing the cable on backwards can cause damage. If you're adding a second drive, connect a spare plug on the ribbon cable to the drive. In this case, it doesn't matter which plug goes in what drive. The computer looks at the master/slave jumpers to see which one is C:.
• Make the second hard drive the slave. The manual should show you how to do this on your particular drive.
  Replace the screws. Double check your work. Also, make sure you use screws short enough not to damage the drive when tightened.
• Replace the cover, plug your computer in, and turn it on with a system disk in Drive A:.
  It probably won't work right away. New hard drives need to be prepared before they will work. You will need to configure it and set up the CMOS.

Extra Settings For Dell Systems

• For Dell Systems the secondary HDD should be fixed as cable select for jumper settings,
• Have to go to Bios which can be reached by pressing F2 key on Blue Dell Logo after you restart your computer.
• Clear NV Ram by pressing Alt+E and Alt+F once all 3 lights on your keyboard are on [ caps + scroll + Num ].
• Restart the system by pressing Esc key on your keyboard and pressing save changes and exit.
• Your HDD will be detected and that you need to go to Os and check on drive manager for other settings.