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Hard Disk Drive Installation
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peterttt
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21. July 2006 @ 13:20 |
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Basically im trying to fit this hard drive into a dell dimension 8400,
Samsung T133 300GB S300 7200RPM 8MB
i have no idea how to do it and the dell manuals have just confused me more. Once i actually fit it into the computer do i have to put it into some sort of special format such as a certain raid setting and do i have to format it.
this will be a second hard disk on the system.
thanks for any help in advance.
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ddp
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22. July 2006 @ 17:14 |
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is this a laptop or tower? is the drive ide or sata & if sata does the motherboard have sata connections on it?
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peterttt
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24. July 2006 @ 09:23 |
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Its a tower pc, a dell dimension 8400, the hard drive is sata, the motherboard will have sata connections.
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ddp
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24. July 2006 @ 10:59 |
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if this is the 1st sata hd to be installed than have to install sata motherboard driver. drive has to be partition & formated just like ide hd.
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peterttt
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24. July 2006 @ 11:52 |
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this will be the 2nd sata hard disk to be installed on the computer.
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ddp
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24. July 2006 @ 11:57 |
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windows than should see it with no problem but have to partition & format the hd 1st.
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peterttt
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24. July 2006 @ 11:59 |
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so do i just connect it up, then windows will automatically recognize it. Can you reccomend some free software to format the hard drive. thanks
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ddp
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24. July 2006 @ 12:02 |
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peterttt
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24. July 2006 @ 12:06 |
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Thanks for your help, i'll give that a go and tell you my results when im finished, one more questions what do i do about raid configurations?
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ddp
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24. July 2006 @ 12:34 |
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have to be identical drives
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peterttt
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24. July 2006 @ 17:25 |
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under the disk management the hard disk is not seen
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ddp
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24. July 2006 @ 18:53 |
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did you initialize the drive?
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peterttt
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25. July 2006 @ 05:00 |
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do you mean under the bios?
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peterttt
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25. July 2006 @ 05:45 |
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Thanks for all your help thats me got the drive up and running now. Oh one more thing, when i was going through the different options the allocated size of the drive came up as 286GB although it is actually a 300GB hard drive, is this normal.
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25. July 2006 @ 06:18 |
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Yer thats normal. Not 100% sure why something to do with the file system. Lol ddp im sure you know, how come??
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ddp
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25. July 2006 @ 16:32 |
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it is normal. do properties on the drive & will see 2 sets of numbers, both are correct. it is to do with formating
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