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Installing a Hard Drive

Installing a IDE or EIDE hard drive on a Pentium computer

To install a hard drive in your computer you must have a decent knowledge of

Computers and know what basic commands do. I wouldn’t recommend a beginner trying

to install a hard drive. These instructions are meant for intermediates or above. Before

you start you should have already bought your hard drive. You will need a Phillips screw

driver, your Windows CD, and the manual that came with your computer.

Before you get ready to install your new hard drive. Unpack the drive you just bought

and make sure the hard drive, cables, manual, and diskette are there.

We will begin by removing the four screws that hold the computer cover to the frame of

the computer. The easiest way to identify which screws to take out is to see which screws

are covering the painted edge of the cover. Other screws, which you don't want to take

out, hold the power supply which could harm the computer. Once the screws are taken

out, the cover may still be hard to slide out. Use both hands, on each side of the cover

Now find the hard drive it should be in the second slot starting from the top.

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The three cables you will be connecting are different sizes and will only go in

one way, so you don’t have to worry about which cable goes where. After you get the screws out the drive will slide out the

front of the computer. But don’t expect much we still have to install the

hard drive for it to work.

We are now ready to install Windows. Remember where you take these out, for you

will be connecting the new cables in the same place.

Now take the new hard drive and slide it in the way the old one came out, and screw in

the same screws the old one used. Now remove

the floppy diskette and restart the computer. To remove the cables,

you just pull straight out. Then a product identification

screen appears enter in your Windows 98 product number (it should be on the front of

your manual that came with the computer) and click "Next". Windows is now successfully installed! And your new hard

Drive is installed! Enjoy!

. Remove both ends of the cables for

we will be replacing them with new ones. Now, attach the ribbon cables that came with the new

hard drive. After finding the drive, make

sure you remove any static carried in your body by touching something metal before

touching the insides of the computer.

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