Part III: Inspection and handling

Part I: Hard drive connection standards
Part II: Installing the hard drive into the system

After installing the hard drive into the system, we need to check to make sure that the hard drive will work properly and handle the problems that arise when installing.

With the newly installed hard drive, you reboot the system and look at the POST screen (the first screen displayed when booting the computer), which will display the hard drive name including: the manufacturer and model of the hard drive. . If you install a SATA hard drive, it may be displayed on another monitor screen next to the boot stage.

If you don't see the hard drive displayed and the system is using Windows 2000 or XP version, restart your computer (restart). Then, go to Windows Explorer, right-click My computer, select Manage. In the management window, select ' Disk Management ' and check in the right pane, see if the hard drive is recognized or not. If it is the second hard drive to be installed, it will be identified as ' Disk 1 ' and ' Disk 2 ' if it is the third hard drive with the full capacity of each partition, each hard drive.

If the system does not use the Windows 2000 / XP operating system version and needs to confirm the new hard drive has been installed correctly. Reboot and press the DEL key on the first boot interface (POST screen) to enter the BIOS configuration section. Depending on the motherboard model, it will automatically detect the hard drive and display the hard drive in Master and Slave. When showing the full capacity and the name and the hard drive model, you have successfully installed the hard drive.

Disk Management in My Computer.

Interface inside BIOS.

However, there are times when the installation process becomes more difficult because you have tried all of the above operations and the system still does not recognize the newly installed hard drive. Don't be discouraged, try the following steps to check the operation of your settings:

1. If the hard disk is not displayed in the POST interface when the system is booted or it is not displayed in the 'Disk Management' section then we return to the first step. You disconnect the system's power source and check the jumper settings to see if it is correct (for IDE hard drive). The next step is to check that the cable connection as mentioned in sections I and II is correct, especially the cable connection for the IDE hard drive.

Note : SATA drives are not always displayed in the BIOS, depending on the motherboard manufacturer and how SATA supports, even if it is installed correctly. This does not mean that it will not work, only that you cannot confirm the installation without Windows. The only way is to do Windows installation.

2. If the hard drive is displayed in the BIOS and Windows but does not display the correct capacity. For example, only display 20GB instead of 40GB, this is the limit of the motherboard. Older motherboards (manufactured 4 years ago) will have certain limitations on identifying hard drive capacity. Sometimes, updating a new version of the BIOS will solve this problem, but it is not feasible for motherboards with older models.

To solve this problem, you can access the hard drive manufacturer's website. Normally, all manufacturers will have free software, utilities to help solve the problems and problems related to the hard drive they produce. Maxtor's Maxblast 4 example. The purpose of these utilities is to enable the capacity to identify capacity higher than the limits of older model motherboards. The utility will also partition the partition and format it for you.

The basic understanding and installation steps and testing have been briefed, your job is to now take the newly installed hard drive to use or install the operating system. When using, you should only pay attention to the most important factors are temperature, let the system always cool, in about 3-4 months, perform data defragmentation to access data. made easier.

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