There are a lot of hard drives out there - this article will help you narrow down your search and pick the hard drive that's right for you. By:Dawn Hobbs.If you've pc outgrown your existing storage, it may consider adding some space to your hard drives . Should you opt for Internal hard drive or removable storage instead? Buying the right hard drive requires research, thought, and a lot of
For this we required Linux live disc (something like Knoppix Linux)
1) Hook up new drive. I used secondary master, hdc.
2) Reboot your system with live CD, this saves complications of dynamic directories and such.
3) Partition the drive with cfdisk or equivalent. Make sure you mirrored the existing setup, you can also have the new partitions with much larger size.
4) Time to format the new
After installing a new Hard Drive the CMOS setup sees the Hard Drive correctly so it is connected correctly but in windows after it has been installed by the the Add New Hardware Wizard it is not shown in My Computer.what is happening here is that windows hasn't created a partition for this drive or it hasn't been initialized.To verify and correct this we have to go to Disk Management this is done
Time to add a new hard drive to the computer ,it can be bigger or the same size.In this case I am going to add a bigger drive as a secondary drive so I can save all of my favorite stuff onto it, it will also be an older IDE form drive.First step is to open the computer box, depending on your box you might have to remove both side panels or just one panel.Find a spare drive bay to install the new d
