Before purchasing an external hard drive, consider what will be compatible with your computer. Most hard drives support USB 2.0 and FireWire. After considering compatibility, it's a good idea to buy a hard drive with as much storage space as you can afford.
Decide what type of hard drive or memory to add.
The fastest type of external hard drive would be a external 3.0 USB hard drive.
IF the CD drive shares an IDE channel with a hard drive, make the hard drive the master and the CD drive the slave.
Is the hard drive connected to a mounting bracket? If so, what type of screws secure the hard drive to the mounting bracket
It is using the EIDE connection. The book says that if you have a hard drive and a CD that the hard drive should be the master and the CD will be the slave.
Hard drive. A common PCMCIA Type III devices is a hard drive.
depends on the type of drive, but as long as the drive is kept away from magnets and at the proper temperature and humidity it should last a decade or two.
The type of hard drive depends on the computer, not the operating system.
That would be a solid state hard drive, or SSHD.
This question is highly dependent on the specifics of your hard drive. Some hard drives have jumper set ups where theres a setting that has no jumper. If that's your type of hard drive then there should be no issue. Either way the computer should boot regardless of jumper setup. It just may not be able to load the Operating System.
Yes, any type of virus has the potential to destroy a hard drive.
Information that is saved on the drive