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If you are installing a drive in the 1.6-inch bay, use the four screw holes in the side of the bracket (see Figure 17).
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If you are installing a drive in the 1-inch bay, use the four screw holes in the bottom of the bracket.
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6. Reinstall the hard-disk drive bracket in the chassis (see Figure 18):
a. Insert the bracket's hinge tabs into the chassis hinge slots so that the tabs hook over the hinge slots.
b. Rotate the bracket toward the chassis, and fit the bracket's sliding tab on the chassis slide rail.
c. Slide the bracket into place, and reinstall the screw you removed in
Figure 18. Drive Bracket Insertion Into Chassis
7. Connect a power cable to the power input connector on the back of the drive (see Figure 19).
Check all connectors to be certain that they are properly cabled and firmly seated.
NOTICE: You must match the red-colored stripe on the EIDE cable with pin 1 on the drive's interface connector to avoid possible
damage to your system.
8. Connect the cable connector on the EIDE cable to the 40-pin interface connector on the back of the hard-disk drive.
Figure 19. Hard-Disk Drive Cables Attachment
NOTICE: You must match the blue connector on the interface cable to the EIDE1 connector on the system board to avoid possible
damage to your system.
NOTICE: You must match the red-colored stripe on the EIDE cable with pin 1 on the IDE1 connector to avoid possible damage to
your system.
9. If it is not already connected, connect the blue connector of the EIDE cable to the IDE1 connector on the system board.
To locate the IDE1 connector, see
10.
Replace the computer
cover. Then reconnect your computer and peripherals to their electrical outlets, and turn them on.
1 Blue interface connector (on EIDE1)
2 Interface cable
3 Power cable
4 Power input connector on drive
5 Interface connector on drive
"System Board
Components."
step 4
of the previous procedure.
1 Chassis slide rail
2 Chassis hinge slots
3 Hinge tabs
4 Sliding tabs

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