Armada 7700, 7800 Service Manual

5. Review

• Use EasyMove (if available) to transfer your
data or

• If you don’t use EasyMove, back up your
data.

• Unlatch and remove the battery.

• Unlatch and remove the drive in its carrier.

• Remove the drive from the carrier.

• Install the new drive in the carrier.

• Reinstall the drive and carrier into the drive
bay.

• Replace the battery.

• If you didn’t use EasyMove, partition and
format the disk, then restore your operating
system and data from your backup.

Installation & Set-Up Guide

6. Problems?

Having problems? Review the steps for removal
or installation, then call our Technical Support
Department at 1(800) 555-1671. Online support is
available at [e-mail] and
www.cmsproducts.com .

There is a known issue with some computers and
their PCMCIA card slots. The EasyBundle
interface card may not be recognized by your
system when you plug the card into the slot. If
this is the case, move the card to the other slot
and try again.

7. Bootable Floppy Disks

To be able to boot (start) your computer without
a hard disk, you’ll need a floppy disk with
certain files and applications on it to boot from.
A bootable floppy disk does not come with your
computer, and you have to make your own
before you remove your hard disk. From the
Settings menu, open the control panel window,
then open the Add/Remove Programs icon. Select
the Start-Up Disk tab, then click the Create Disk
button.

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June, 1999

Hard Disk

Installation

& Set-Up

Guide

For Compaq® Armada

7700 & 7800 Series

Personal Computers

To replace your hard disk with

your new CMS hard disk drive for your Armada
7700 or 7800, follow these instructions.

1. Preserve your data

If you’ve used the EasyMove software to transfer
your data from your original drive to your new
drive, you’re ready to exchange your original and
new drives.

If you don’t have EasyMove, you should back-up
your data using whatever method is best for you
(floppies, tape, network, removable drive, etc.).

2. Remove the old disk drive

Follow these steps to remove and replace your
old drive.

A. Make sure your computer is turned Off. Turn
the computer over, unlatch and remove the
battery (Step 1, Figure 1).

B. Unlatch the disk drive and slide it from the
computer (Step 2, Figure 1).

Step 1

Step 2

Figure 1

C. Holding the plastic disk drive carrier in one
hand, grasp the metal disk drive housing with
your other hand, and gently lift the drive from
the carrier.

3. Install the new drive

Install your new disk drive by following these
steps:

A. Install the disk drive into the carrier by
reversing the procedure from Step 2B, above.
Make sure the disk drive is fully seated in the
carrier.

B. Turn the computer back over with the screen
up. With the disk drive facing up in its carrier,
slide the drive and carrier into the disk drive bay.
Push it into the computer until it latches into
place.

C. Replace the battery. The installation is
complete.

4. Setting up your new drive

If you used EasyMove to transfer your data, your
installation is complete. Turn on your computer
and you’re back at work.

If you didn’t use EasyMove, insert a bootable
floppy disk (See Section 7, below) and turn the
power on. The computer will automatically
determine the drive type for your new disk. From
the A: prompt, type FDISK followed by the
Return key. Choose option 1 (Create DOS
partition or logical drive), then choose option 1,
(Create the primary DOS partition), accept the
maximum size and activate it. Due to the
limitations of Windows 3.1 and early versions of
Win ’95, the maximum partition size is 2,048 MB.
If your new disk is larger than this, you’ll then
need to create extended partitions (D and/or E
drives) to use the remaining capacity of the disk.

Choose option 1 (Create DOS partition or logical
drive). Choose option 2 (Create extended DOS
partition), then accept the defaults for partition
size and logical drive size. Repeat this step to
utilize the full capacity of your new disk. Newer

versions of Win ’95 do not have this limitation
and can fully utilize your new large capacity
drive as a single partition.

When the primary DOS partition is created (and
any extended partitions, if required), reboot your
system. From the A: prompt, type FORMAT C:/S
followed by the Enter key. This will format the
primary DOS partition and copy the system files
to it making it a bootable drive. If you have an
extended partition, type FORMAT D: (or FORMAT
E:) followed by the Return key to format the D/
E drive. Remove the floppy disk, and when you
restart your system, it will boot from your new C
drive.

Note: If your original hard drive only had a
single partition (you only had a C: drive) and
your new drive has multiple partitions, your CD­ROM may have been moved to the next available
drive letter after your new hard drive partitions.
If you have CD-ROM based applications installed
(those that require the CD-ROM to run), these
applications may be expecting to find your CD­ROM drive at D:, which may have changed. If
you have problems running these applications,
verify the drive letter of your CD-ROM, and
reinstall the CD-ROM applications if the CD-ROM
drive is at a new drive letter.

Remember, perform this step of making partitions
and formatting them only if you didn’t use
EasyMove in Step 1, above.