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Installing the Drive

If you have problems with a newly-installed drive, check the

following:

1. If someone else installed the drive, consult that person about

the problem.

2. If you installed the hard disk in your computer, did you

carefully follow all the instructions in Chapter 5? Review

the instructions, check all the cable connections, and check

the jumper settings on your drive.

3. If you installed an IDE hard disk drive, be sure you run

SETUP to update your configuration. Check to make sure

you selected the correct drive type and that you enabled the

built-in IDE hard disk drive controller with the

Peripherals SETUP

option in SETUP. (If you connected

the IDE drive to a controller on an option card, be sure you

set the built-in controller to Disabled.) See Chapter 2 for

instructions.

4. If you installed a non-IDE hard disk drive, was it

physically formatted by the manufacturer? A blank, new

hard disk must be physically formatted (or

initialized)

before you can partition it and install an operating system

on it. This type of format is usually done by the

manufacturer; if yours was not, you must do it yourself. If

the drive came with its own format utility, use that

program.

Note that a physical format is different from the software-

based type of formatting commands (such as the MS-DOS

SELECT or FORMAT commands). See “Preparing the

Drive,” below, for more information.

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