Additional Harddrive

Set jumpers on drive to slave
Open computer and connect to Primary IDE cable
Connect the40 pin cable and Power cable to drive
If the drive is not detected open the CMOS panel,locate the drive configuration and right-click and use the Page up or Page down arrow key to set the configuration to Auto,save and exit
Reboot

First, verify that you hav a spare bay to mount the drive in your case.

2. I recomend that you purchase the same brand drive as your original to avoid conflicts.

3. Decide if you want to install the drive as a slave to the primary hard drive, or on the other IDE channel. If you have both a CD rom and a CD-RW drive, you may want the CD drives on opposite channels if you copy CDs. Other wise, it doesn't matter much.

4. Find or create a boot floppy for W98. You can create the floppyfrom the startup disk tab of add/remove programs. If you cannot find your W98 CD, you can download the files from www.bootdisk.com

5. Set the jumpers on the drive(s) correctly for master / slave / single.

6. Install the drive, and connect the cables.

7. Place boot floppy into drive.

8. Boot and enter setup (del or f1).
Refer to your system or motherboard manual for further details on BIOS settings.
Set all new or moved drives to autodetect.
Leave the settings for your existing hard drive as is.
Verify that the floppy drive is the first boot device.
Exit and save settings.

9. When you get the A: prompt run fdisk
select large drive support
select the new drive
select create extended dos partition
create logical drives as desired.
exit fdisk and boot to either the floppy or W98
format the new drive(s)

For further detail, check out www.aumha.org
or www.fdisk.com

There are also articles in the Tech Republic archives.

Assuming that you have the HDD and that your system has the available IDE connection and power connections available and that there is an available drive bay and all you want to do is add a second HDD to your Win98 system, do the following:
Record the Model, # of cylinders, # of head, # of sectors and the capacity of the HDD (you may have to enter this information manually). Verify that the drive is jumpered to SL if you are adding it as a secondary device on the channel or MS if you are adding it as the primary device on the channel. With the computer unplugged, open the case and install the disk drive in an open drive bay (you will need four screws to secure the HDD in place). Connect the IDE ribbon cable to the drive (the red side of the cable to pin 1) and also connect the power cable. Plug in your power cord and power up your computer. Enter the CMOS setup routine by pressing F1 or F2 or Delete key (as directed on the screen). In CMOS verify that the drive was recogized correctly, if not you need to verify that you jumpered the HDD correctly or you will have to manually input the information that you previously recorded. Exit and save the changes. If the drive was previously used, then it is already partitioned, if not you will need to boot DOS and run the FDISK and FORMAT commands to prepare the HDD for use. Finally boot into Win98 and verify that the second drive is being recognized by the O/S and you are done. Hope this what you wanted.