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Completing the Installation of a Hard Disk Drive, Installing a Drive in a Front-Access Shelf

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2 How to Install Accessories In Your Minitower PC Workstation Installing Mass Storage Devices Completing the Installation of a Hard Disk Drive When a New SCSI Hard 1 Switch on the computer. Disk Drive Is Installed 2 To ensure compatibility, use the FDISK utility to delete any partitions on the new hard disk. 3 Re-boot the computer. Refer to the operating system documentation for information on formatting a drive. When an IDE Drive Is Installed NOTE 1 Switch on the computer. 2 To display the device in POST, press Esc while the PC Workstation re-starts. 3 If an error message appears, follow the instructions provided by the Error Message Utility. 4 To verify the configuration of your hard disk drive, press F2 to enter Setup when prompted. Once in Setup, select the Advanced menu, then the IDE Devices submenu. In the Primary Master item, check that the details for the device have been correctly detected by the Setup program. 5 Press F3 to save and exit Setup. Refer to the operating system documentation for information on formatting a drive. If you have removed an IDE drive, switch on the computer. The system BIOS will detect that the device is missing. Press F4 to confirm that you want to remove the device. The system configuration will be updated automatically. Installing a Drive in a Front-Access Shelf These instructions explain how to install a drive (such as a flexible disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, CD-RW drive, or a tape drive) in one of the front-access drive shelves. You should also refer to the manual supplied with the drive for any additional installation instructions. English 43

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How to Install Accessories In Your Minitower PC Workstation
Installing Mass Storage Devices
Completing the Installation of a Hard Disk Drive
When a New SCSI Hard
Disk Drive Is Installed
1
Switch on the computer.
2
To ensure compatibility, use the FDISK utility to delete any
partitions on the new hard disk.
3
Re-boot the computer.
Refer to the operating system documentation for information on
formatting a drive.
When an IDE Drive
Is Installed
1
Switch on the computer.
2
To display the device in POST, press
Esc
while the PC Workstation
re-starts.
3
If an error message appears, follow the instructions provided by the
Error Message Utility.
4
To verify the configuration of your hard disk drive, press
F2
to enter
Setup
when prompted. Once in
Setup
, select the
Advanced
menu, then
the
IDE Devices
submenu. In the
Primary Master
item, check that the
details for the device have been correctly detected by the
Setup
program.
5
Press
F3
to save and exit
Setup
.
Refer to the operating system documentation for information on
formatting a drive.
NOTE
If you have removed an IDE drive, switch on the computer. The system
BIOS will detect that the device is missing. Press
F4
to confirm that you
want to remove the device. The system configuration will be updated
automatically.
Installing a Drive in a Front-Access Shelf
These instructions explain how to install a drive (such as a flexible disk
drive, a CD-ROM drive, CD-RW drive, or a tape drive) in one of the
front-access drive shelves. You should also refer to the manual supplied
with the drive for any additional installation instructions.