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1. Configure the new hard disk as slave by properly installing jumpers on its controller board. Disk
drives generally have a picture on the drive that shows the correct jumper settings.
2. Open your computer and insert the new hard disk into a 3.5'' or 5.25'' slot with special holders.
Fasten down the disk with screws.
3. Plug the power cable into the hard disk (four-threaded: two black, yellow and red; there is only
one way you can plug in this cable).
4. Plug the 40- or 80-thread flat data cable into the sockets on the hard disk and on the
motherboard (plugging rules are described below). The disk drive will have a designation on the
connector or next to it that identifies Pin 1. The cable will have one red wire on the end that is
designated for Pin 1. Make sure that you place the cable in the connector correctly. Many cables
are also "keyed" so that they can only go in one way.
5. Turn your computer on and enter BIOS setup by pressing the keys that are displayed on the
screen while the computer is booting.
6. Configure the installed hard disk by setting the parameters type, cylinder, heads, sectors and
mode (or translation mode; these parameters are written on the hard disk case) or by using the
IDE autodetection BIOS utility to configure the disk automatically.
7. Set the boot sequence to A:, C:, CD-ROM or some other, depending on where your copy of
Acronis True Image Home is located. If you have a boot diskette, set the diskette to be the first; if
it is on a CD, make the boot sequence start with the CD-ROM.
8. Quit BIOS setup and save changes. Acronis True Image Home will automatically start after
reboot.
9. Use Acronis True Image Home to configure hard disks by answering the wizard's questions.
10. After finishing the installation, turn off the computer, set the jumper on the disk to the master
position if you want to make the disk bootable (or leave it in slave position if the disk is installed
as additional data storage).
24.2.2 Motherboard sockets, IDE cable, power cable
There are two slots on the motherboard to which the hard disks can be connected: primary IDE and
secondary IDE.
Hard disks with an IDE (Integrated Drive Electronics) interface are connected to the motherboard via
a 40- or 80-thread flat marked cable: one of the threads of the cable is red.
Two IDE hard disks can be connected to each of the sockets, i.e. there can be up to four hard disks of
this type installed in the PC (there are three plugs on each IDE cable: two for hard disks and one for
the motherboard socket).
As noted, IDE cable plugs are usually designed so that there is only one way to connect them to the
sockets. Usually, one of the pinholes is filled on the cable plug, and one of the pins facing the filled
hole is removed from the motherboard socket, so it becomes impossible to plug the cable in the
wrong way.
In other cases, there is a jut on the plug on the cable, and an indentation in the sockets of the hard
disk and the motherboard. This also ensures that there is only one way to connect the hard disk and
the motherboard.
In the past, this design of plug did not exist, so there was an empirical rule: the IDE cable is
connected to the hard disk socket so that the marked thread is the closest to the power cable, i.e.
