How to Install an Internal IDE Hard Drive

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Summary: Information on installing internal IDE hard drives. Learn about hard drives in this free video.

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James Adams I have been working with computers since my high school days, almost 10 years ago, when I took a Novell Netware 4.11 class. Since then I have built too many c... read more

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How to Install an Internal IDE Hard Drive

Hi! I’m James Adams, I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com. Now we’re going to talk about IDE hard drives. So now, we have the cable connected to the motherboard. All power supplies come with these white connectors, which is for power on the hard drive. Then the hard drive we need to have it set. Like I said before, you need to have the pin corresponding with what spot on the cable the hard drive is going to occupy. In my case, on this example we’re going to use master. So the pin is set to master and the pin is connected like this. The pin connects going up and down. It is never connects like that in a set to the master position. We take the master connector on the IDE cable and like I said it’s keyed so is the cable, snap it in, take the power connector snaps in. Then all we have to do is drop in your shiny new hard drive. Now the hard drive has some holes to put screws, and in my case I put them right here. You just put screws and you’re done; you’re finished your hard drive is installed. In case you wanted to make this hard drive a storage hard drive for windows. Let’s say you have windows you filled it up, all you have to do is take the pin out, put it on the slave position. Let’s pretend this one already goes to a hard drive so you would put it right here and you’re done.