Hey everyone, Daniel here from TwinBytes with another quick tutorial for you.
This time I'm going to show you how to replace a hard drive inside an hp compact 6200 pro small
form factor. It's easy enough to remove the cover as you can see. Then we got the front
panel that has three little tabs at the top that we needed to remove. That will then allow us to
open up this bay and get access to the hard drive which is underneath the dvd drive. So first we're
removing the data and power cables for both the hard drive and the dvd drive. Without removing the
power cables for the dvd drive, we're not going to be able to get access to the hard drive.
and the hard drive actually needs to come out from the top.
So we have to remove the dvd out of the case first.
With the dvd out of the drive, then we should be able to easily just move the, or slide the hard
drive out, but I'm having trouble in this case. You're supposed to just push down on this lever
and then the drive slides out; however it was stuck in there really tight with those little
rubber grommets in the screws. That's supposed to just slide up in or up and out; I guess however
you want to word that, but anyway, I had to just take a screwdriver at it as you can see here to
both sides removing the screws and then the drive's going to be able to easily slide out.
even with that, with the screws removed, it's a little bit tight as you could tell trying
to remove that. But anyway we're replacing that old drive with this brand new solid
state drive. Of course we need to use a bracket in order to have that connect in here because
this particular case doesn't have a spot for an ssd to connect directly.
so of course you got to read the fine print remove the sticker out of the way before you can use it
and then attach your solid state drive to the metal bracket.
The bracket comes with four screws that uh allow you to screw the ssd to the bracket
and then there's another set of screws that allow you to attach it into the case but we're
not going to be using those other screws in this case because this has a special way of connecting
with the other screws that you saw earlier that i had to remove. So I did try initially to put
these things in here but then i realized how it was giving me such a problem before
and I couldn't get this back in, for the same reason I couldn't get it out in the first place,
so I just slide it in here first and then I'm gonna screw the screws into it afterwards.
and once that's screwed in place then I can attach the power and data cables; however
I'm noticing a problem with the data cable for the drive here
and if we zoom in you can see it's actually broken on the end and it just feels a little
bit stiff so I'm going to remove this cable and replace it with a brand new one.
now that I got the hard drive or solid state drive installed I got to install the dvd drive
back into the case, and it just drops into place with the screws lining up and it goes down and
forward and locks in place. Then I can reconnect the data and power cables for the dvd drive.
and of course I'm going to want to tuck those cables away nicely so they're out
of the way and don't get pinched or anything when i get this pushed back down into place.
and then we're ready to put the front bezel back on and you want to make sure that you
have that on the right way before you force it in place because if you look close enough here
i got it the wrong way at first thinking it's going to line up and i'm looking for the tabs to
line up and it just is backwards. Anyway, once you have it on the right way you just line up the tabs
at the bottom and holding that in tight snap the top three tabs in place and you can slap around
there to make sure that it's in tight and check around the edges to make sure there's no gaps.
and then that's it, we're ready to put the top cover back on, and that's all there is to it.
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Thanks so much for watching. Bye for now.