Partitioning And Logically Formatting Your Eide Hard-Disk Drive; Figure 7-14. Attaching Hard-Disk Drive Cables - Dell OptiPlex Gs Reference And Installation Manual

8. Connect one end of the EIDE cable to the 40-pin
interface connector on the back of the hard-disk
drive (see Figure 7-14).
The cable is keyed so that the colored strip on the
EIDE cable lines up with the pin-1 end of the inter-
face connector.
CAUTION: You must match the colored strip
on the EIDE cable with pin 1 on the drive's
interface connector to avoid possible damage
to your system.
DC power cable
EIDE
cable
Figure 7-14. Attaching Hard-Disk Drive
Cables
9. If it is not already connected, connect the other
end of the EIDE cable to the IDE1 connector on
the system board.
CAUTION: You must match the colored strip
on the EIDE cable with pin 1 on the IDE1 con-
nector to avoid possible damage to your
system.
To locate the IDE1 connector, see Figure 6-1.
IDE1 connector
10. Connect a DC power cable to the power input con-
nector on the back of the drive (see Figure 7-14).
Check all connectors to be certain that they are prop-
erly cabled and firmly seated.
11. Replace the expansion-card cage as instructed in
"Replacing the Expansion-Card Cage" in
Chapter 5.
12. Replace the computer cover. Then reconnect your
computer and peripherals to their power source,
and turn them on.
13. Insert a bootable diskette (such as the diagnostics
diskette) into drive A, and turn on the computer
system.
14. Enter the System Setup program, and update the
0 category under
DRIVE
See "Drives: Primary and Secondary" in Chapter 2.
After you update the drive setting, reboot the system.
15. Partition and logically format your drive as
described in the next subsection before proceed-
ing to the next step.
16. Test the hard-disk drive by running the Hard-
Disk Drive(s) Test Group in the Dell diagnostics.
See your Diagnostics and Troubleshooting Guide for
information on running the diskette-based diagnos-
tics and troubleshooting any problems that may
occur.
17. Install your operating system on your hard-disk
drive.
Refer to the documentation that came with your
operating system.
Partitioning and Logically Formatting
Your EIDE Hard-Disk Drive
EIDE hard-disk drives must be physically formatted,
partitioned, and logically formatted before they can be
used to store data. Every hard-disk drive from Dell is
physically formatted before it is sent to you.
NOTE: On systems with hard-disk drives larger than
2 gigabytes (GB), create a primary partition of 2 GB and
divide the remaining capacity into partitions of 2 GB or
less. For example, a system with a 2.5-GB hard-disk drive
would have a primary partition of 2 GB (drive C) and a
.
DRIVES: PRIMARY
Installing Drives 7-9