Hard Drive Installation ©Richard L. Goldman Revised - January 4, 2001

Plug-and-Play BIOS A technology that automatically selects and sets IRQ’s, I/O ports, and DMA channels for expansion cards added to a system. PnP is composed of: –Plug-and-Play BIOS For installed boot cards - reads data from ESCD and boots the system For new boot cards – reads cards, checks the ESCD and, assigns a Card Select Number (CSN) and configures boot cards. –Extended System Configuration Data (ESCD) Area of CMOS where PnP configuration data is stored. –Plug-and-Play routines in the operating system Configures non-boot cards (or boot cards that the PnP BIOS can’t configure)

PnP Device ID’s All PnP devices have a unique ID. –A 3 letter vendor ID followed by a 4 number product ID. –Example: ABC1234 Many common devices have been assigned reserved ID by Microsoft with a vendor ID of “PNP”.

BIOS Error Messages Errors detected by the BIOS will be indicated by: –Text messages on the screen –Beep codes form the system speaker –Hexadecimal error codes to I/O port 80 A hexadecimal code is displayed on a POST-code card of the POST test in progress

Installing a Hard Drive 1. Record Hard Drive Data Manufacturer Model Serial Number Vendor, Date of Purchase, PO Number Hard drive parameters-Size, etc.

Installing a Hard Drive 2. Set Jumpers Master/Slave/Stand Alone - IDE Drive SCSI #/Termination - SCSI Drive

Installing a Hard Drive 3. Physically install hard drive Use 4 screws (Caution - do not switch metric/English screws) –English into Drive –Metric in HDD cages, CD-ROMs, brackets, etc (Caution – do not use long screws) Connect Data Cable Connect Power Cable

Installing a Hard Drive 4. Configure CMOS Setting Set to Auto/Auto if possible

Installing a Hard Drive 5. Partition Hard Drive Use Fdisk, Manufacturer’s OS utility, PartitionMagic, etc. (adds MBR)

Installing a Hard Drive 6. Format each partition with appropriate file system (adds Root Directory and 2 FAT’s) FAT 16 (2GB max.) FAT 32 (2TB max.) NTFS (15EB max.?) (HPFS)

Installing a Hard Drive 7. Install operation system

Installing a Hard Drive 8. Install applications