How to set up a Hard Drive

To set up a new hard drive, firstly you need to switch off the power supply and then remove the casing. If you were installing a new hard drive you would have to set the primary hard drive as the “master” and the new hard drive as a “slave”. To do this you would have to change the jumpers, the jumpers are located on 3 pins, and these pins should be in-between where the power cable …

…the BIOS, usually you need to press DEL of F1 when the computer is turned on. When you are inside the BIOS setup program, you should select standard CMOS setup, when inside here you can enter the hard drive’s parameters. Modern computers have an automatic detection system that is safer and quicker to use. When this is done, save the settings and reboot the computer. The new hard drive should be ready to use.