re: Hardware question: installing a hard disk Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 4:09 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Avi (3 messages posted) Hi, the cdrom and/or dvd drives are needed for OS installation and are easily detected if you choose "cdrom support" at the beginning of the installation so the best is to leave them untouched. Normally, you can even leave the other cards in their places but taking them out may serve as a good precaution when it comes to Win98. On Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 5:42 am, Kiwi wrote: >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. > Written in response to: Hardware question: installing a hard disk (Kiwi: Tuesday, January 3, 2006 at 5:42 am) Responses to this message: Whether you have quibbles or not, address the OM with them (Kiwi: Wednesday, January 4, 2006 at 4:27 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