When working with computers, always consider safety first. Turn off and unplug your computer before opening the case. Also, take a print out of these instructions or have a separate device phone or laptop to view them on for easy reference while you are working. You may need to confirm that you have enough space inside your computer tower to physically mount the new hard drive. You should also check to see if you have an available SATA port on your motherboard where you can plug in the new hard drive.
Ensure you have a spare port to connect your new hard drive into. Again, you can skip this check if you are simply replacing your existing hard drive.
Once unplugged, you can open your computer tower by unscrewing the screws which hold the side panel in place. These may be thumbscrews or you may need to use your screwdriver. Be sure to ground yourself by touching some exposed metal on the computer case. This will prevent the risk of static from damaging your internal components.
It will usually be a SATA cable, shown below:. Most hard drives will have the option for both Molex or SATA power connections, and you can use one or the other as you like. The two different types together look like this:. You can then secure it in place using screws installed through the outside of the mounting rack into the side of the hard drive.
Time to close up your case, power on, and get to configuring your new SATA hard drive for use. Refer to our next guide in this series for a walk through of configuring your new hard drive. You now know how to plug a SATA hard drive into both your motherboard and power supply so that it is ready to be used. The next step is to configure the new hard drive in your operating system so that you can actually use it. This involves powering your computer on, and clicking a few buttons in software.
Have you replaced or installed a SATA hard drive before? If you found this guide helpful, or have any questions, feel free to drop us a comment below. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. I accept the Privacy Policy. Now, you've installed the second hard drive into your computer. All you need is to press the power button to restart your computer and enter the next guide to set up the second hard drive.
To make your hard drive showing up and detected correctly in your computer, you need to initialize the disk, setting up a correct partition style, and create partitions on your disk. EaseUS Partition Master with its New Disk Guide feature makes it easy and simple for you: partition hard drive and initialize disk at the same time.
Once the customization is done, click "Proceed". By doing so, you'll get several volumes that share equal capacity on the disk, for example, 2 GB volumes on a GB disk. After creating volumes on the new disk, you may stop here. But if you need to make use of the hard drive, follow the next guide for help.
Here, we collected two types of needs and offered respective tips to help you make use of the second hard disk. If you tend to use the second hard drive as a data disk, you can now copy and paste large files into the second disk. For honing the best way to transfer large files, EaseUS Todo PCTrans now update the large file cleanup function, supporting moving files large than 20MB to another drive partition root and custom directories.
See how does it work. Note that if your OS drive is logically too small, the other way to release its stress is to move the installed programs to a second hard drive. On this page, we offered a complete guide, showing you the complete process of adding a new second disk on your Windows computer:.
To simplify the whole process, we applied EaseUS partition manager software - Partition Master to help you initialize the disk and partition it in a quick guide. If you are experienced in setting up computers and manage hard drives, you can also apply disk management to make it show up on the computer. In a word, installing and setting up a new disk on your computer is not complex.
Follow this DIY guide to optimize your computer performance now. It makes it way easier to play out what will happen after you've made all the changes. I also think the overall look and feel of EaseUS Partition Master Free makes whatever you're doing with your computer's partitions easy. Partition Master Free can Resize, Move, Merge, Migrate, and Copy disks or partitions; convert to local, change label, defragment, check and explore partition; and much more.
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