Basically im trying to fit this hard drive into a dell dimension 8400, Samsung T133 300GB S300 7200RPM 8MB i have no idea how to do it and the dell manuals have just confused me more. Once i actually fit it into the computer do i have to put it into some sort of special format such as a certain raid setting and do i have to format it. this will be a second hard disk on the system. thanks for any help in advance.
is this a laptop or tower? is the drive ide or sata & if sata does the motherboard have sata connections on it?
Its a tower pc, a dell dimension 8400, the hard drive is sata, the motherboard will have sata connections.
if this is the 1st sata hd to be installed than have to install sata motherboard driver. drive has to be partition & formated just like ide hd.
so do i just connect it up, then windows will automatically recognize it. Can you reccomend some free software to format the hard drive. thanks
yes on the 1st part & the format program is in windows. tho for seagate, still applies to other hd's. http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/install_xp_disk_mgmt.html
Thanks for your help, i'll give that a go and tell you my results when im finished, one more questions what do i do about raid configurations?
Thanks for all your help thats me got the drive up and running now. Oh one more thing, when i was going through the different options the allocated size of the drive came up as 286GB although it is actually a 300GB hard drive, is this normal.
Yer thats normal. Not 100% sure why something to do with the file system. Lol ddp im sure you know, how come??
it is normal. do properties on the drive & will see 2 sets of numbers, both are correct. it is to do with formating
