Hard Drive
The Hard Drive is one of the main features in the PC and is the main memory. The memory in a hard drive is not volatile and whenever a piece of work is saved on the PC it saves onto the hard drive.
The reason why this links into graphics is because without this the graphics is useless. Without a hard drive there would be no space for any software or even graphics itself. As RAM is volatile, you would need to start everything from scratch every time you turn the PC on.
Hard Drive Configuration and controllers.
On a PC, a hard drive can either be IDE or SATA. PC’s have many SATA ports, around 1-4, but generally there is only one IDE. You may put 2 IDE drives in one port, these will be either master or slave. Which drive that boots is defined in the BIOS which I will be getting mentioning soon.
It is generally the master that boots up or SATA1 if you are working with SATA.
The controllers which are normally places as a chipset or expansion card on the motherboard is just what its name says, a controller. It controls the transfer of data and holds any bits of information it needs to have some kind of intelligence. The controller will need to be able to communicate with the components in the computer and as time goes on it will be more critical. Most controllers are already built into the motherboard.
A Hard Drive is almost exactly the same as Installing a CD-ROM.
Replacing the master drive: Just the same as a CD-ROM. just unscrew the hard drive, remove any wires, replace the hardrive, screw it back into place and replace wires.
Adding Or Replacing a Slave drive: a second hard drive can be added to the PC. A Slave hard drive performs in exactly the same way, whoever the master usually always has the operating system and the master always boots up first.
Adding a slave is simple, in the case of your PC, in the right hand sight there will be a set of slots, they look more like a set of shelves. above there should be a drive already in. That is the master.
here is an image showing you what there is, as you can see the hard drive "slots" have the CD-Rom drive slots above, which are mentioned in another post of mine, so are the power supplies, one of these hard drive "slots" should have a drive in it. when getting a hard drive you should get a hard drive in an antistatic bag and some screws. Please before you touch any components read Health And Saftey, this ensures you and the parts are safe. Hopefully once that is read you have decided to go to the measures I mentioned and are ready to tackle the task.
First you must take your new hard drive, if you are replacing the master, first remove the cables, then just remove the screws for the first drive, slide the drive out, place it in the antistatic bag and replace the slot with your new drive, screw it back in and you are done, remember to place all the cables back in.
for a slave drive there is a few adjustments you must do to your hard drive, there is a switch on the hard drive known as a jumper. Here is an example
Usually a key of which jumper is for which is written either on the board itself or on back of the drive.
Just switch this jumper CAREFULLY to the slave setting. then add it to the next slot like a normal master drive.
A Hard Drive is almost exactly the same as Installing a CD-ROM.
Replacing the master drive: Just the same as a CD-ROM. just unscrew the hard drive, remove any wires, replace the hardrive, screw it back into place and replace wires.
Adding Or Replacing a Slave drive: a second hard drive can be added to the PC. A Slave hard drive performs in exactly the same way, whoever the master usually always has the operating system and the master always boots up first.
Adding a slave is simple, in the case of your PC, in the right hand sight there will be a set of slots, they look more like a set of shelves. above there should be a drive already in. That is the master.
First you must take your new hard drive, if you are replacing the master, first remove the cables, then just remove the screws for the first drive, slide the drive out, place it in the antistatic bag and replace the slot with your new drive, screw it back in and you are done, remember to place all the cables back in.
for a slave drive there is a few adjustments you must do to your hard drive, there is a switch on the hard drive known as a jumper. Here is an example
Just switch this jumper CAREFULLY to the slave setting. then add it to the next slot like a normal master drive.
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