Installing the DriveIf 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 5? 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 run 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 with the Peripherals SETUP option in SETUP. (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 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.
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.