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Hard disk drives. See hard drives
Hard drives
active partition, 120
basic drives, 120
bays for, 130
BIOS settings, 117, 131
buffer (cache) memory, 119
capacity not recognized by system, 134–135
capacity of, 135
compatibility, 118
crashes, 137
data back ups for, 136
defined and described, 3, 115–117
Disk Management and diagnosis of problems, 136
drive letters, 121–122
drive overlay software, 135
dynamic disks, 120
extended partition, 120–121
File and Settings Transfer Wizard, 138
file systems, 119–120
form factors, 118
heads, 116
hot-swappable drives, 138
installing, 126–131
jumpers and jumper settings, 126–128
LBA support, 134
motherboards and, 124–125
notebook / laptop hard drives, 130
operating system errors and, 133–134
operating systems and, 119–124
partitions and partitioning, 120–121, 132
PCMCIA hard drives, 139
platter speed, 119
quality of, 118–119
RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), 138
removal of, 125–126
ribbon cables, 128–129
round cables, 129
selecting, 118–119
set up, 131–133
troubleshooting, 133–136, 290
UDMA speed ratings, 118
Hardware
adding or removing, 17
broadband Internet connection, 213–215
diagnostic utilities provided by manufacturers, 234
peripherals, 15, 288–289
quality of, 266
Hardware tab of System applet, 25
HDDs. See hard drives
Header connectors, motherboards and, 69
Headphones, 156, 171
Heads, 116
Health settings, 15
Heat
diagnosing CPU problems, 84–85
fans, 82, 84–87
heat sinks, 82–83, 265
temperature-monitoring software, 243
troubleshooting overheating problems, 284
Heat sinks, 82–83, 265
Hibernation power option, 24
<Home> key, 192
Home Page, setting on general page of Internet options, 215
Hot-swappable drives, 138
HyperTerminal, 177–178
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