Title: Chapter 6 Hands-on Lab
Course: DEPT MC - PERSONAL COMPUTER HARDWARE > Section: Module 2 (Chapter 5, 6, 9, 19)

Q: Boot your PC and make certain that it works properly. Turn off your computer, remove the case, disconnect the data cable to your hard drive. Turn on the computer again. Write down the message that appears.

Q: Turn off the computer and disconnect the power supply cord to the hard drive. Turn on the computer. Write down the error message that appears.

Q: Verify that your computer has an extra SATA data and power connector available. Remove the SATA hard drive from your demo computer (like the ones we used last week). Power down your lab workstation and open the case. Install the demo SATA drive in your lab workstation. Power up your lab machine and verify that the secondary drive is visible to Windows, then answer the following questions:

Has the newly-installed drive been assigned a drive letter? What is the drive letter? What is the available capacity on the disk? What are some reasons a secondary drive might not show up in Windows?

When you're finished answering the questions, please power down your lab machine, remove case, remove the spare disk drive, and return it to your demo machine.