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Appendix B. Hard disks and BIOS setup

The appendices below provide you with extra information on how the hard disk is

organized, how information is stored on disks, how disks should be installed in the

computer and plugged into the motherboard, configuring disks with BIOS, partitions

and file systems, and how operating systems interact with disks.

B.1 Installing hard disks in computers

B.1.1 Installing a hard disk, general scheme

To install a new IDE hard disk, you should do the following (we will assume you

have powered OFF your PC before you start!):

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 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 also are ―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 Seagate BlackArmor Backup 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 CD-

ROM.

8. Quit BIOS setup and save changes. Seagate BlackArmor Backup will

automatically start after reboot.

9. Use Seagate BlackArmor Backup to configure hard disks by answering the

wizard’s questions.

10. After finishing the work, 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).

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