IBM & HITACHI

For jumper settings, CLICK HERE. Once there, select your model and then look for something like an Installation Guide.

I used to really like IBM drives, but since Hitachi has taken over, I am less than impressed. They seem to have fallen by the side of the same road as Fujitsu and Samsung. They used to offer support for disk installation, but now you are out of luck. If you are running Win 9.x or ME, you must install your hard drive the hard way. Fortunately, they still offer their disk fitness tool to at least diagnose problems with your hard drive.

If you believe you are having problems with your hard drive, you can download this utility. It will test for potential hard drive surface problems (e.g., bad clusters, bad sectors, partitioning/formatting problems, etc.) and drive recognition problems (e.g. hard drive that is not recognized by the operating system). Click on the title below to download the program to your computer. We recommend you save it to your desktop so it is easy to find.

Once you have downloaded it, insert a formatted floppy disk in the floppy drive, and double click on the DFT.exe program you just downloaded. Once it has created your bootable floppy disk, you can simply reboot your computer with the floppy disk in the drive, and the program will start automatically.

DISK FITNESS TEST HARD DRIVE DIAGNOSTIC TOOL

This diagnostic tool will only run in DOS. Do not attempt to run this program in Windows.