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Written By: Keith "Farrel" McClellan Posted: November 20, 1999 Cooling Brrr...cold. Believe it or not, there are now actually hard drive coolers. Some of them work great, some of them suck, and others are just plain there. Unless you're overclocking (there it is again) or you've got a massive SCSI drive, don't even bother. If you're still interested, though, I've heard that 3Dcool has some nice HD coolers available. Overclocking If you overclock your system at all, you need to be very wary of your hard drive. Hard drives, even more so than any other part of your system, are open to harm when you overclock, so you need to be extremely careful. If your PCI bus speed isn't a nice 33 MHz, hard drives can miswrite data and even die completely. For more information on this subject, check out page 3 of the Hard Drive / Memory Tweak Guide here at Tweak3D. After the Installation Ok, now that we've been over all of your installation options, it's time to get this hard drive working so you can save data to it. First, you are going to need to partition the drive. This can be done with either the Fdisk utility that is included with DOS/Windows or a commercial utility such as Partition Magic. Once you have done this, you will need to format that partition, and you're in business. For specific instructions on Fdisk and format, check out page 2 of the How to Install Windows 98 Guide. After you've done this, you will probably want to enable DMA and other performance enhancing goodies. More information about that kind of stuff can also be found in the Hard Drive / Memory Tweak Guide. |
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