A Newbie Guide To Installing An HDD

[SoAdCrAzY]

I have installed Hard Drives before but am reluctant with this system. I bought the system as a pre-built bundle on this website and the cables are managed very well.

I am just wondering if anyone has any tips to installing another HDD. I know how to do it I am just worried about messing up the cable management. I have cable ties.

I suppose my main question is whether anyone has any experience with how to go about finding the concealed power cables without doing any damage? I had a brief look and couldn't follow the existing SATA cable (to see where it is tied) or any free power cables. It is all so neat and tidy!

Thank you.

 

[wazza300]

all you need is to find a spare molex sata power plug from your psu and a spare sata data cable,look at your original hdd for reference

connect up the new drive then pop in the bios and look for hdd's and make sure your original/os hdd is still first boot device,if not change it so it is then save/exit

that's it,you might need to look in disk management in windows and initialise the new hdd for it to show up in windows or assign a new drive letter to it

just cut the cable ties and find the connectors you need,re zip tie it later once everything is connected

 

[SoAdCrAzY]

all you need is to find a spare molex sata power plug from your psu and a spare sata data cable,look at your original hdd for reference

connect up the new drive then pop in the bios and look for hdd's and make sure your original/os hdd is still first boot device,if not change it so it is then save/exit

that's it,you might need to look in disk management in windows and initialise the new hdd for it to show up in windows or assign a new drive letter to it

just cut the cable ties and find the connectors you need,re zip tie it later once everything is connected

Okay, thank you.