I hope the following is of some help:
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Installing a New Hard Disk Drive:
1. There are a number of ways to install a new hard drive and transfer your existing operating system, applications and data from your old drive to the new. Some may prefer to use full-featured imaging utilities such as Norton Ghost or Drive Image, but buying those programs really is not necessary just to install a new drive. All drive manufacturers provide free utilities for installing and configuring new drives. These utilities usually come with the retail versions of new drives, or may be downloaded from the manufacturer?s website.
2. Here are links to sites for downloading the major manufacturer?s hard drive installation and configuration utilities:
IBM: [L]http://www.storage.ibm.com/techsup/hddtech/welcome.htm#Installation[/L]
Maxtor: [L]http://www.maxtor.com/library/softwareDownload.html[/L]
Quantum: [L]http://service.quantum.com/softsource/softmenu.htm[/L]
Seagate: [L]http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/[/L]
Western Digital: [L]http://www.westerndigital.com/service/ftp/drives.html#dlgtools[/L]
3. 2. A recent article that explains procedures for installing and configuring a new hard drive may be found here:
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http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/stories/solutions/0,8224,2586419,00.html [/L]
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Setting up an ATA/66 or ATA/100 Hard Disk Drive:
If you order a retail version of an ATA/100 or ATA/66 hard disk drive you get the drive, standard packaging, an instruction manual, and, usually, an 80-wire 40-pin IDE cable and a drive configuration and management utility on a floppy disk. If you order an OEM version usually you get just the drive. You may download from the manufacturer?s website the setup utility and instruction manual, however.
The 80-wire 40-pin IDE cable is compatible with ATA/33, ATA/66 or ATA/100 drives. The cables? blue connecter should be connected to the motherboard or to an add-in controller card. Usually the cables? black connecter (at the other end of the cable) goes to the master drive on that channel, and the cables? gray connecter (the one in the middle) goes to the slave drive. Of course, you need to properly set the jumpers on the drives to match their master or slave position.
To run the drive in ATA/100 or ATA/66 mode you may have to enable that feature on the drive with the setup utility, since drives when manufactured may be set to ATA/33 by default to insure maximum compatibility. You also must use an 80-wire cable for the drive to function at ATA/66 or ATA/100 and all drives on that cable must be ATA/66 or ATA/100. If you use a 40-wire cable, or if the drives are not properly enabled, then the drives will revert to ATA/33 mode. Finally, your motherboard or your add-in controller card must support ATA/66 or ATA/100 and must be so enabled, and your operating system must be enabled for DMA transfers.