How To install a SATA hard drive

[JohnnyRock2000]

Question: When your operating system takes up one cable slot, and there are 3 or more cable slots left open....for the slave drive, what slot would be the "proper" slot? Thanks.

[100roberthenry]

so what do i do when my psu only has 1 sata power connector?...and i want 2 drives?...anadapter or something?....great music btw :)

[zzzzuuuu123456]

@100roberthenry buy a sata data and power cable

[100roberthenry]

@zzzzuuuu123456

no!..i wont ha ha....:P .... that was ages ago, i got it sorted now dude!.. cheers!.. :P

[ghostmarine1000]

I recently bought a 2tb seagate 5600 rpm internal hdd , but it only registers as 931 gigs what the hell is the problem ? and how do i fix it.

[Sn0okkz]

i did it all, but what now? i cant access my drive or something, when i click on my computers it show only 1 drive

[anupjisha]

bro i hav 2 hdd already inma pc..i wana conect ma 3rd hdd..for dat i should use jumber pin or remove dat?

[hugodevalente]

Good. Congratulations.

[callofdutyguy9]

what size hard drive was that

[Froastwolf]

by the way is there a limit to how much drives you could have?

I have C, D ,F, H, I connected a new sata hardrive 1000GB and it didnt show up. nothing happened

[21boxhead]

WOW PEOPLE ARE THIS STUPID THEY HAD TO MAKE 10000 VIDEOS ON HOW TO INSTALL THE HARD DRIVE.

[jex041489]

uhm,,,, I cant find my power connection on the left but I have the right data cable for SATA.. MY only problem I cant find it,,I cant find the power connection. Im so noob.

[joebg1]

@jex041489 if you're hdd is Serial ATA(SATA), the power is the biggest one.

the data is the smallest one.

hope that helps!

peace!

[jex041489]

@joebg1 Tnx for the reply I appreciate it my problem is my power supply is only engineering. I bought a new one 600w and my problem is solve!

[wiseman5508]

I liked it, music and everything short, sweet and to the point!!! Thanks bro!!

[uphill248]

Ok my power connector doesnt look like that. please help. Is all SATA that same??Help Please

[MrMagicMustache]

get a converter from your local cpu store

[renderjohn]

you motherfuckers and this corny ass music is for the fucking birds. its so annoying. fuck!!

[GrandmasterBBC]

Anyone know if it makes a difference which SATA connection (SATA 0 or SATA 1) is used on the MOBO for the primary boot drive? I just removed the second (data only) drive from my old Dell Dimension 8300 (which I installed a few years ago) and it now it would not boot up properly. I switched between the SATA connections on the MOBO before messing with the Bios (thinking it made no difference which one it was connected to) and now I can't remember which it was connected to before hand. Help!

[nomisanoj]

@GrandmasterBBC do you have any IDE ports at your mobo? cuz if you do, then you gotta run the sata control cd with the sata driver before you are able to boot from the disk. You can google you mobo's name/number and then "sata driver" and you might find what you are looking for. ^^

The reason: When you disconnect your hdd's (if you have ide ports) then the bios will boot from the ide ports. And you have to change that with the sata controller, quite simple!

[sgtbush]

just a couple of pointers-- u may have to go into your bios settings to make sure your secondary sata port on the motherboard is open-- i had too do that and then go start-- run-- and type in diskmgmt.msc and partition and format the new hard drive-- hope this helps

[hsk0007]

@sgtbush

Thanks for the tip on diskmgmt.msc

[hsk0007]

@sgtbush

thks for the tip diskmgmt.msc

[bouncingsoul100]

i have a power and data cable whats the chip thing that tells it which drive to boot from called -- are they just pata drives ?

[robjames420]

this help me install my 800 gb

[redstripe555]

great background music.

i couldnt really see much but i could figure out whats was going on there

[suzuki834]

i have bought a new hard drive for my pc 1 is 30 gb other is 160 how do i merge the two to both be C:

[frostek]

You can't - each drive will be assigned its own drive letter within Windows. The second hard drive will usually become D:, and any optical drives will follow after that.

[patrikas2]

yeah i got same problem. i dont have the original windows xp CD either...how do you copy the info from one to the other?

[bouncingsoul100]

you CAN do this with barts PE builder

[joisthebest100]

Wait im confused about setting the master and slave HD with SATA

[DEATHTRUTH]

If its your primary drive make it master, if not make it slave.

[joisthebest100]

oo ok thanks

[bouncingsoul100]

please tell us how ?

[DEATHTRUTH]

Go into your bios and change it. Look on google for specifics.

[bouncingsoul100]

I want the drive that boots now to remain teh same an the new one to just be drive D - so if its somewherfe after C in teh boot sequence that should be fine -- yes sry I answered my own question

[DEATHTRUTH]

Though if you are using IDE i believe you have to physicaly change the jumper on the drive itself.

[bouncingsoul100]

thats what I was wondering - the jumper - chipset thing - it only applies to a IDE drive - Not a sata drive - Right?

[DEATHTRUTH]

Yep, with SATA it automaticly detects whether it should be slave or master, according to which has the OS on it so i believe.

[gfyhdhbyhgj]

I use only one screw...

[updown454]

Well arnt you a little material conscience boy!

[gjgvffcbdfvxfgbjnkmk]

so only 1 sata red plug goes into the hard drive and that said plug into the mother board?

[gfyhdhbyhgj]

???

[metalmulisha98101]

yeah

[9EACE]

I can c anything :-( There is just 2 much ov a shadaw over cast from objects and other stuff and the window seems to b fitted.

but TYVM

[fifalgerian]

hey,

i really need help, i try to install the hard drive as a partion when i am loading a new windows set up since i built my own computer... i got the HD from a refurb. external and just took it apart... anyway now it wont let em "the disk cannot be accessed and you cant set up windows on this disk".... do you have any idea btw this is my only HD. i plugged it on my computer it recognizes it but it wont let me access th files even when i put it back in the external case... any idea?

thanks

[Khelen87]

Thx dude very good video

[presa1200]

what if i run out of power supply plug for my new HD? do i have to get some kind of extension or something? or will i get those when i purchase a new one? thank you

[mantol642isback]

Rally helpful dude! Thanks! Now I can Install my 320GB 5400RPM By myself! Thank you so much!

[Doubtfire95]

help i have built my own computer and stuck on installing windows vista i have plugged in my seagate sata hard 500gb but wen i come to install the driver it wont i duno if my bios are not right any help wud be most helpful

[SweetFA77]

Thankyou most helpful!

[Boromir028]

Modular, modular, MODULAR so that all these frigging extra wires aren't hanging all over the place

[elhombredelaescuela]

great video! i'm gonna install a sata HD tomorrow, hope this works out ;)

[retsnom92]

What i want to know is that if i use my sata usb HDD and remove it from its case, take off the sata to usb connecter would i need some sort of internal HDD case for it or can i just pop it in there.

[patu811]

Wow great guide! Really helpful.