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What is hard drive?
What you should know
Installing the Hard Drive 1. Set the jumpers to master or select for your primary hard drive with shared data cable. 2. Connect the IDE data cable to the mother board drive controller. 3. Connect the other end of the data cable to the hard drive 4. Connect the other end of the IDE data cable to the had drive. 5. Connect the 4-pin connector from the power supply to the hard drive. 6. Turn on the computer and test if the drive works. The computer will only power up and detect the hard drive. At this point, you are ready to install a CD-RW/DVD-+ and operating system. | |||
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Hard drive is the primary storage device on your computer.
It stores all the computer's systems and data for the CPU to process.
Hard drive size is measured by Gigabyte (GB). The most common interface standard for passing data between a hard disk and a computer are IDE and SCSI.
Hard drive size is measured by Gigabyte.
They come in the storage sizes of 8GB to over 320GB.
A decent computer should have 20GB or over. Hard drive use 40-pin connection data cables.
The hard drive stores all your programs, data, operating system, and hard ware drivers.
The trickiest part of installing your hard drive is setting up the jumpers.
Most PC's use IDE connection and accommodate two drives per cable.
Connecting two drives (Hard Drive/CD-RW) to single IDE cable requires you to set jumpers;
set first drive (hard drive) master and second drive (CD-RW) as slave.
If you connecting the IDE data cable to single drive, set the drive jumper to master or select.
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