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Chapter 7

Chapter 7 Hard Drive Installation and Support You Will Learn… How to install a hard drive How to use diagnostic software How to recover lost data on hard drives How to apply hard drive troubleshooting skills Installing a Hard Drive Set jumpers or DIP switches on the drive

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Chapter 7

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  1. Chapter 7 Hard Drive Installation and Support

  2. You Will Learn… • How to install a hard drive • How to use diagnostic software • How to recover lost data on hard drives • How to apply hard drive troubleshooting skills

  3. Installing a Hard Drive • Set jumpers or DIP switches on the drive • Physically install an adapter card, cable, and drive • Change CMOS setup • Partition, format, and install software on the drive • Protect the drive and the PC against static electricity

  4. Physical Installation of IDE or SCSI Hard Drives • IDE • Drive • 40-pin data cable • Possibly a kit to make drive fit in larger bay • SCSI • Drive • Cable compatible with host adapter • Possibly • External terminator • Host adapter • Kit to make drive fit the bay

  5. Installing an IDE Hard Drive • IDE hard drives support up to four IDE devices on the same system • Four possible setups for each device • Primary IDE channel, master device • Primary IDE channel, slave device • Secondary IDE channel, master device • Secondary IDE channel, slave device • Place fastest devices on primary channel and slower devices on secondary channel

  6. Installing an IDE Hard Drive • Take precautions • Have a good bootable disk or Windows 9x rescue disk • Read all documentation and check the setup of the computer • Visualize the entire installation • Understand the meaning of each DIP switch or jumper on the drive

  7. Jumper Settings

  8. Typical Jumper Arrangement

  9. Jumper Settings on an IDE Hard Drive

  10. Precautions for Working with Hard Drives • Handle the drive carefully • Do not touch exposed circuitry or chips • Drain static electricity from your body and from the package containing the drive • If you must set it down, place the drive component-side up on top of the static-protective package on a flat surface • Do not place the drive on the computer case cover or on a metal table

  11. Using an IDE Connection on the System Board

  12. The Universal Bay Kit Adapter

  13. Internal and External Bays

  14. Seating the Adapter Card Properly

  15. Setup Programs that Allow Change in Hard Drive Parameters continued

  16. Setup Programs that Allow Change in Hard Drive Parameters continued

  17. Setup Programs that Allow Change in Hard Drive Parameters continued

  18. Setup Programs that Allow Change in Hard Drive Parameters

  19. Informing Setup of the New Hard Drive • Setup for hard drives less than 528 MB • Older BIOS: setup assumes use of CHS mode • New BIOS: select CHS mode or normal mode • Setup for large-capacity hard drives • Two ways BIOS relates to large capacity drives • LBA • Large mode continued

  20. Informing Setup of the New Hard Drive • When BIOS does not support large-capacity hard drives: • Let the BIOS see the drive as a smaller drive • Upgrade the BIOS (best solution) • Upgrade the entire system board • Use software that interfaces between the older BIOS and the large-capacity drive (e.g., Disk Manager by OnTrack, SpeedStor by Storage Dimensions, EZ-Drive by StorageSoft) • Use an adapter card that provides the BIOS to substitute for system BIOS (e.g., Promise Technology, Inc.)

  21. A Note on Moving a Hard Drive or Changing BIOS • Backup up the data on the hard drive before you move it to avoid potential problems with: • Lost data • Inability to access the drive’s data • Different translation methods for LBA mode • Don’t change options in setup unless you are sure of what you are doing

  22. Partitioning the Hard Drive • Partition table • Written at the very beginning of a hard drive • Describes number and location of all partitions • Identifies the boot partition • A drive must have one primary partition and can have one extended partition • The drive boots from the primary partition • The extended partition can be subdivided into several logical drive partitions

  23. Partitioning the Hard Drive

  24. Partitioning the Hard Drive

  25. Partitioning the Hard Drive

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