Changes

This tutorial assumes that the new physical hard drive has been installed on the system and is visible to the operating system. The best way to do this is to enter the system BIOS during the boot process and ensuring that the BIOS sees the disk drive. Sometimes the BIOS will provide a menu option to scan for new drives. IF the BIOS does not see the disk drive double check the connectors and jumper settings (if any) on the drive.

Assuming the drive is visible to the BIOS it should automatically be detected by the operating system. Typically, the disk drives in a system are assigned device names beginning ''hd'' or 'sd'' followed by a letter to indicate the device number. For example, the first device might be ''/dev/sda'', the second ''/dev/sdb'' and so on.