Most components in your system are expensive, the
hard drive is no exception.
But if you think about the "bang for your buck"
the newer hard drives are a
super bargain. Consider this, one byte (8 bits) is equal to one character of
typed text. Now you have a hard drive that has the capacity of xxx gig, that is
xxx billions of single characters, how many books would it take to have say 300
gig of characters? A book case of encyclopedias? Two? Three? So a new 300 gig
hard drive costs say $130, you get a meg for about $0.0105, that is less than a
half cent per 250,000 characters!
Replace case cover, prepare to power up. (Check you computer documentation on
how to get to the BIOS setup)
Power up, do you see the post?
Go to BIOS setup, your new drive should be listed. BIOS listings differ from
manufacture to manufacture, if it is not displayed on the fist page,
look for
storage.
If this is a replacement drive that the OS (Operating System) was on then you
will have to make sure that the drive is selected to be the Boot drive, also you
will have to
reinstall the OS. (check the programs listing for instructions on
reinstalling your OS).
If this is a second drive and not the OS drive once you see it in the BIOS,
check to see if it is listed as the boot drive, you do not want it to be the
boot drive, change the setting.
Once you are confident that the drive settings for the bios are correct exit and
let the OS load.
Once the OS is up and running you have to do two more things before your new
drive is ready:
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you think about the "bang for your buck"
the newer hard drives are a
super bargain. Consider this, one byte (8 bits) is equal to one character of
typed text. Now you have a hard drive that has the capacity of xxx gig, that is
xxx billions of single characters, how many books would it take to have say 300
gig of characters? A book case of encyclopedias? Two? Three? So a new 300 gig
hard drive costs say $130, you get a meg for about $0.0105, that is less than a
half cent per 250,000 characters! 
