How to Install a Hard Drive or SSD in a PC

Learn how to install a hard drive into any PC with this easy to follow step-by-step guide.

Upgrading storage is one of the most common changes that PC owners want to make. And it happens to be one of the easiest tasks to do yourself! The steps in this guide can also be applied to the installation of 2.5" Solid State Drives (SSD's) as well. If you're interested in learning how to install NVMe and SATA M.2 drives, get subscribed because I'll be covering that in a separate video.

This is the first video in a new series on this channel that will focus on basic PC building and upgrading. If you have questions or ideas for future video topics, let me know in the comments!

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[MrJarvisful]

Me building 2 computers and forgetting how to do this

[joep]

Dude! Simple, easy to follow, right to the point, instructions. Many thanks!

[KevinKnightCanDance]

Thank you. I for got where my SATA ports were on my motherboard. Thanks to this video I checked in my manual to see I had to remove the graphics card to get to them. Took 5 mins to install and another 5 to get my case back together.

[CordobezVeridan]

Thanks man.

The hardest part for me was mounting the drive but by staring really hard at all the holes I managed to. Then I followed your install guide and it was a piece of cake.

Now I can free my SSD and save all my catgirls on my hard drive.

[eltescz]

You have no idea how much this videos helped me, im new in all pc stuff and this video was life saver, thank you sooo much!

[davidbolam]

Brilliant, so simple and effective. Thank you

[yesyesyesyall]

Tx for taking the time to do this, exactly what I needed.

[alanhowitzer]

It worked. This was easier than I thought. Thank you.

[GenesisBoi]

I just built an SSD pc but want to add my old hardrive. Thanks for the vid

[focehrh]

THAT WAS REALLY COMPLETE AND BEST FILMING, GREAT JOB!

[manoftheroad]

Installed today..following your guidance works perfectly ..Many Thanks

[soby]

Pretty insightful and clear tutorial! Thanks

[manoftheroad]

Simple Clear and Very Helpfull..will update you on my novice install first steps

[Formattingformula]

This was great! You explain everything so well. Thank you very much!

[NonsensicalReality]

I've heard some people in forums say that you have to be careful with which sata cable you get to make sure it matches the machine you're using like in terms of provider or brand or something? they claim it can damage the components if the wrong on is used. Is this true? or are all sata cables safe to use?

[tvattmaskin]

I have a modular PSU (Corsair RM750X) and I lost my left over cables, can I use aftermarket power cables to plug my hdd in or do they need to be from corsair?

[millionRamen]

sir, you are a god damn legend! thank you so much

[alexuchiaoftheleaf]

HELP. I cleaned my hard drive via the command prompt (took forever) and it doesn't let me run it. I bought it on offer up and the seller did not wipe it. In BIOS it shows up in storage information but it won't give an option to boot it. I have also formatted it just like you have in this video so it does show up in files. I am currently using my SSD which does not have a lot of memory so i want to have my profile and games on the 1TB hard drive. What do i do.

[StainderFin]

oh i found sata cable with power conenctor to motherboard 15+7 pin cable its only 5€ so these are cheap parts if pc dont include it

[ThenameisBuck]

5:00 don't worry that's what I'm best at