Hardware question re. installing new hard disk Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 3:39 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by John (44 messages posted) Hi - My hard disk just died, and I've ordered a replacement for it (ATA 100, IDE, 3.5 inch desktop) and wish to run it as before, as a single master drive. I've never installed a HD before, so my main questions are: Should I leave the current DVD Rom player [Drive D] and CD Writer [E] drives connected when I switch on the new HD after connecting? Will they be configured automatically or should I disconnect them and reconfigure them after the HD is formatted and the OS installed? The same question too for the pci cards attached at the moment - presumably they should be taken out and reinstalled after the OS [98SE] is installed? Should I be starting with just the bare HD? Be gentle with me - I'm a fairly raw beginner. Thanks for any help - John. Responses to this message: Hardware question: installing a hard disk (Kiwi: Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 5:42 am) Supplemental, web tutorial on installing new hard disk (Kiwi: Friday, January 6, 2006 at 6:32 am) All messages in this thread [show all] Hardware question re. installing new hard disk (John: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 3:39 am) Hardware question: installing a hard disk (Kiwi: Tue, Jan 3, 2006, 5:42 am) re: Hardware question: installing a hard disk (Avi: Wed, Jan 4, 2006, 4:09 am) Whether you have quibbles or not, address the OM with them (Kiwi: Wed, Jan 4, 2006, 4:27 am) I suppose I meant "IF you have quibbles" (Kiwi: Wed, Jan 4, 2006, 5:36 am) re: Whether you have quibbles or not, address the OM with them (Avi: Mon, Jan 16, 2006, 6:33 am) Supplemental, web tutorial on installing new hard disk (Kiwi: Fri, Jan 6, 2006, 6:32 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum