IDE Installation

B142-Lab Assessment Sheet

Student Name: Jessica Rush                 

Assessment Topic: IDE Installations

Getting Started:

What you’ll need: Tools

*Philips-head screwdriver

*Anti-static wrist wrap

First Things First:

The first thing you need to do is determine the number of IDE devices (in POST or CMOS setup) and observe the current drive letter assignments (in the OS)

	Primary IDE Master  [QUANTUM FIREBALLLP] Primary IDE Slave    [Not Detected] Secondary IDE Master [SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD] Secondary IDE Slave  [Not Detected]
Local drive (hard drive)àc: Floppy diskàa: CD ROMàd:

Next….

Before installing your new IDE drive you need to make sure that you have room for the drive in your case—an open bay, and available power connection. Large hard drives in a small/mini case can spell disaster--too much heat can cause critical data loss. Make sure enough room is available for adequate airflow. Special Fans are also available the clip on to the back/front of bay and attach via a USB connection.

IDE Installation:

Shut down:

	Left click on start menu Left click on shut down
highlight shut down left click OK
	shut off (done automatically by some PC)
Unscrew side panel
	Remove side panel to gain access to drives and drive bays etc…

Setting the Jumpers of the IDE drive:

	If this is the first drive or only drive the jumpers need to be set to Master. If this is the second drive the jumpers need to be set to Slave. Note these settings should be located on the drive cover. If they are not they can be located on the hard drive manufactures webpage. Or ….
An IDE cable can be used to determine position: motherboard connection located at left of cable Slaveà middle connection Masterà Right end connection Note that the master drive must be at one end of cable and the motherboard at the other while the center it the slave. Some cables are labeled but not all are.

Next connecting the cables

	connect data cable making sure that pin 1 lined up Note that the data cable can be plugged in wrong—will cause BIOS to not auto-detect drive. Pin 1 will be marked (it is the red wire) proper orientation of the cable is with the red wire toward the red wire of the power connection.
This is good but you don’t describe in detail the cabling of our drives: i.e. set CDROM to slave, set new drive to master, leave original drive alone, place CDROM and class hard drive on IDE1, place new hard drive on IDE2.
connect power connection (Molex connector)

Restart the computer and enter the Bios

	Power on computer (make sure power cord is plugged into main power)
Enter the BIOS (usually by pressing the DEL key during POST- note not the same for all BIOSs) Primary IDE Master (original hard drive) – [QUANTUM FIREBALLLP] Primary IDE Slave (CD Rom) – [SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD] Secondary IDE Master (new drive) – [FIJITSU] Secondary IDE Slave – [No Detected]

After installing the hard drive the BIOS will auto-detect the drive if the cable is connected properly. However it is still useless to the operating system. In order for the drive to be useful to the operating system you need to create partitions. Partitions consist of clusters of sectors. A Primary partition is where your operating system resides, including the boot setup. You can create up to four primary partitions, if you create more than one primary partition you will need to set the primary partition that contains the operating system as the active partition. Next create an extended partition which is usually the rest of the available hard disk space. You can specify the exact amount but if less than that of the remaining volume the unused portion will not be accessible. Only one extended partition can be made. In the extended partition numerous Logical partitions can be created. Primary and Logical partitions are assigned a drive letter. After creating partitions you need to format the drive using the file system that your system recognizes. (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS)

Partition hard drive:

	Enter Disk management by clicking start and typing diskmgmt.msc and hitting enter. To create a new partition right click on unallocated space on the basic disk where you want to create the partition—click on New Partition
In the Partition Wizard click Next  next select the partition you want to create (create primary-first,extended-second, and logical-third) click next  specify the size of the partition in MB click next click do not format this partion click next make sure the settings are correct and hit finished.

Format hard drive

Right click the partition or logical drive that you want to format click format select the file system in the file system box you wish to use.  click ok press ok when prompted to format the volume

Reboot computer:

press ctrl+alt+del

click on restart

Observe POST

Power light come on

Keyboard lights come on

Drive lights

Beeps and chirps

Test CD-Rom by opening and closing caddy

Floppy drive lights

Etc…

Observe MY Computer:                              or….       Disk Management

Observe that partitions are visible in MY Computer or Disk Management, and no errors occurred during POST.

Clean Up:

secure hard drive in bay with four screws
	replace side panel
Secure side panel with screw
	Start Computer

If you had to do some troubleshooting, briefly state what the problem was and your solution for it.

Assessed by: ___________________________                     Date: _______________

Assessed by: ___________________________                     Date: _______________

Very good. The new formatting style works for you. Great detail with (almost) all steps accounted for.

Score = 28