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hey guys it's Dean with the tutorial showing you how to install a desktop hard drive now this is a very simple procedure just to install a new hard drive ins one of the great reasons why you'd have a desktop now today I'm going to be installing a 2 terabyte Western Digital hard drive but the name and all that kind of stuff is not important what is is the size and this is what is known as a three and a half inch drive that's typically what you will install into a desktop and there also is another smaller variety of hard drive called a two and a half inch typically that's going to be a called a laptop hard drive or perhaps a SSD now the mounting procedure everything is basically the same although do keep in mind that typically desktop aren't made for three-and-a-half inch drives like this so if you have a two and a half inch drive you'll probably going to need an adapter now for my case it's really simple all I need to do is take these drive bays or these guides or whatever you like to call them and then just simply slide them into the screw holes so there's one here and one here and just hold it in place and do the exact same thing on the other side alright so now you need to find an empty three and a half inch drive bay she doesn't see here I have several so it doesn't really matter which one do just kind of keep in mind that you're going to need to run the cabling so if you know you can put one on down below and up top you don't need to keep in mind that cables are going to need to run to both so typically I got to keep them pretty close so we're going to go ahead and slide into the in eBay and do keep in mind that you're going to need to run the cabling so for this case the cabling needs to be on the backside which is the easiest way to do it so you can see all our connections are going to be on this side so we'll just take it and insert it and and we're gonna slide it until it clips so alright so I've disconnected my main hard drive just to show you guys so you can get a little bit of a better view now there are two things I see on the right here is the SATA data so this is where we get the data so it's going to be a cable look something a little like this and you'll connect it to your motherboard on one end and of course the other end goes into your hard drive and this other larger one is going to be for your power so that's going to be a cable from your power supply such as something a little bit I can pull it over here and like this alright so we're gonna go ahead and connect both these hard drives back so I'm going to do the Angus I'm going to go ahead do the bottom one first matta unconnected but so we just need to take our SATA now they're all notched so you can't like put them in the wrong way so if we put it in here now this should clutch so there we go now the power connectors will not clip so you're not a Harmsen shirts man but you can apply a decent amount of force and if it if it doesn't work and you can just simply just recheck your connections so I'll take this and try to make sure we get it on here and you know have a lot of room to go with but I think this should work and then simply just slide it into place all right so that's going to be about it now all we need to do is just make sure that of course your SATA data connector is connected both on to the hard drive as well as to your motherboard and that the SATA power connector is in firm so like I said won't actually snap but it shouldn't really have a whole lot of give and it should be roughly even as far as how far it is in compared to the data cable so alright so this point we just need to do a little bit of cable management tie all these messy cables up and go ahead and boot in alright so once you have your computer panels back on everything plugged back in go ahead and boot back into windows now at this point you just need to initialize the hard drive so just hit the Windows key and type in disk management and it will say create and format disk hard disk partitions alright so once we do this it will take just a moment to load and then we should see our new hard drive whether it be you know 100 gigabytes or 2 terabytes or anything alright so you can see here it says select disk we have this new one so we'll go ahead and click OK and now it should take just a moment but you can see right here we want to create a new simple volume and click Next and which you can make the full size of the disk we'll give it the drive letter e or whatever you can you want to make it drive letter Z which actually would be kind of cool but you can do whatever you want and we click Next and we just format it and create a name for it so we'll just say um Western Digital you can of course name it whatever you want finish and it should only take just a moment and then you should see the dip will appear in your auto place so here we go right there so now if we hit my computer you will now see our new hard drive will be listed so guys that's going to be about it from here you can go ahead and load it up you can use this backup you can use extra files you can do pretty much anything you want so you guys this has been a quick tutorial showing you how to install a desktop hard drive now like I said many of these things do apply equally to if you're using a laptop or using a two and a half inch laptop drive in a desktop but just be sure that you get it in correctly you don't you know screw anything up and make sure that everything the wiring is in properly and you should have really no problems in it guys if you enjoy the video definitely be sure to leave it a thumbs up and if you're interested in more videos like this be sure to subscribe