How do I add second hard drive to my computer?

Things you need in order to be able to install a second hard-drive on your computer:

- you need to have an open bay for your new hard drive

- make sure that the ribbon cable can be plugged into your old and new hard drive

- power connector exists for the new hard drive

Installing the second hard drive:

Switch off the PC. Remove your old hard drive and set its jumpers so that it becomes “master”, look on top of the hard drive for the correct way for the jumpers, if you can’t find them there visit your hard drive manufacturer website.

Make your new hard drive “slave” - set the jumpers accordingly.

Insert the hard drives into the drive bays, attach the ribbon cable and the power cable to both of them.

Turn your PC on, once Windows loads, got to Windows Explorer or My Computer and find out if you can “see” the new hard drive. Try copying a few files from your old hard drive to the new one to make sure that everything is ok. If you have problems reboot your PC and go to your BIOS settings, you should see your old hard drive listed as “master” and the new one as “salve”. If the PC hasn’t detected the new hard drive setting correctly you should manually enter them.