How to Add a Second Hard Drive - Lab Rats #26

Andy and Sean show you how to easily add a second hard drive to your Mac or PC - LBA: Logical Block Addressing LBA is a method for identifying where data lives on a storage device. - Recent computers used 28-bit LBA on the motherboard, which meant a 137 gigabyte hard drive maximum. - Newer computers use 48-bit LBA, allowing hard drives up to 144 <a http://tinyurl.com/l35uv - IDE: For more issues around 48-bit LBA head over to: http://tinyurl.com/nb3ul Top transfer speeds of 133 MB / sec and older hard drives were even slower. - Serial ATA: SATA I - data transfer speeds of 150 MB / sec. SATA II - data transfer speeds up to 300 MB / sec. - Future Serial ATA drives are looking upwards of 600 MB / sec. Andy's Book: Windows Vista Help Desk Look for it in stores January 2007 Windows XP: Go into My Computer - The new hard drive doesn't show up Go into the Control Panel Double-click on Administrative Tools Double-click on Computer Management Click on Disk Management Right-click on the unallocated partition Click New Partition, then click next Select Primary partition, then click next Click next Click next again Choose the file system - The file system is how a computer stores and indexes data on a storage medium. - NTFS is used by Windows XP and 2000. - NTFS-formatted drives are not readable by Windows 95, 98, and Mac. Click finish Mac OS: Go to Applications Go to Utilities Go to Disk Utility Click on Erase Choose the file system - The file system is how a computer stores and indexes data on a storage medium. - Mac OS Extended [readable by Macs] - MS-DOS File System [readable by Macs and Windows] Click erase, your finished - A brand new drive that hasn't been formatted will not have a letter assigned to it. - The difference sene after formatting a hard drive, is the difference between binary and decimal systems. - Hard drive manufacturers consider a gigabyte to be 1,000,000,000 bytes. That's 1000 x 1000 x 1000. - Operating systems measure a gigabyte as 1,073,741,824 bytes. That's 1024 x 1024 x 1024, or 2^30. - The IEC has proposed renaming the brinary gigabytes as a "gigabyte". It hasn't caught on. - FAT-32 File System is readable by Windows, Mac, and Linux. - FAT- File Allocation Table. - Win95 started with FAT-16, and then Win95 OSR2 and Win98 used FAT-32. - Just make sure to tell your mom not to call us while we're in the middle of taping the show. Stay tuned for next week's episode for the official word on Andy's third book...containing space-cars