Hardware question: installing a hard disk
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 5:42 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kiwi
(2228 messages posted)
For the purely mechanical aspects, if you bought a brand name drive in the "Retail"
package, it comes with a CD of useful programs, a users' manual, and a Quickstart
folder to show you the basics. Follow the steps outlined and you can hardly go wrong.
For a so-called "OEM" drive, then you need to download a copy of the manual, but
it's still available.
There are dozens of step by step guides duplicating the manuals in other folks' phraseology
that can be found on the 'net.
Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 3:39 am, John wrote:
>Hi -
>
>I've never installed a HD before, so my main questions are: Should I leave the
>VDVD 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?
>
Both of those should be connected to the Secondary IDE already, and can be left as
is for the OS' install.
>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?
Depending on the cards involved, sometimes it does make getting things going again
easier if the Modem, NIC, and Sound Card are added one at a time. Fairly often,
it isn't necessary. If the modem isn't a real one, the WinModem devices are very
problematic during a reinstall and definitely should be set aside at first.
>Should I be starting with just the bare HD?
>
>Be gentle with me - I'm a fairly raw beginner.
You have to have a CD to perform the OS install, quite certainly, and ATAPI devices
are generally very standard for the BIOS and the OS to recognize.
.
Kiwi
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