Install the Hard Drive

Installing a hard drive and disk drive my sound complicated at first, but it's not. Both are basically a three step process: mount the drive to the computer case, connect it to the power supply, and connect it to the mother board.

Necessities:

• Hard Drive
• Disk Drive
• Mother Board
• Power Supply
• Tower
• Screws and Screw Drive

First thing you want to do at any time working with electronic components of computers is make sure you are grounded. Any small static electricity can potentially fry the components and they will no longer work. To mount the disk/hard drives on to the tower use screws and place the disk/hard drives in an appropriate location (towards the front of the tower exposing the disk drive and hiding the hard drive). Once installed in the appropriate location with sufficient support, using a manual connect the wires from the disk/hard drives to their appropriate location on the mother board. The disk/hard drives cannot function without power. So, in the final step, connect the wires from the hard/disk drives to the appropriate wires from the power supply. Once you have done the three simple steps, your hard/disk drives will work assuming the rest of your computer is intact.