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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 3? 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 ran
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. (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 of
the
Setup Guide
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; if not, follow the instructions in Chapter 5.
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.
Troubleshooting
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