So you're running out of storage space on your computer don't worry it happens to us all in this
video I’m going to show you how to install your brand new SSD into your computer then after that
I’m going to show you how to activate your brand new SSD within windows because
if you don't you never see this then afterwards I’m going to show you how to format that drive
how to create a partition how to give it a drive letter and then how to name it whatever you want
to name it then after that easy enough you can go ahead copy all your files folders music videos
pictures and everything right onto this drive you can even make it your new gaming drive but anyway
let's get to it so I’m going to show you this process first outside of a computer because inside
of a computer you're kind of cramped and it might be a little overwhelming to work in such a tight
space to make it easier we're going to go about it right here and then I’ll show you back in the
computer so first off we're going to grab our SSD and I do want to mention the entire process we're
going to be using on this SSD is going to be the same on a mechanical hard drive a mechanical hard
drive like the SSD has SATA power and SATA data same thing just a lot bigger and slower anyway so
like the mechanical drive you'll see there is the SATA data connection looks like a little
l and then a SATA power connection it also looks like a little l okay so then we're going to grab
our SATA cable don't worry if you don't have one immediately typically they come inside of
the motherboard box if you built the system or had someone build it for you but if you didn't I’ll go
ahead and have links down below where you can pick one up they're pretty cheap too so with this l
right over here for the SATA data connection we're just going to grab the SATA cable which has that
same SATA l connection right over here so we're just going to go ahead and join that right here
and you might even hear a click you don't need to but you may okay so easy enough right there's one
more or two more actually so then we're going to need to attach the other SATA side of the cable
to your motherboard right over here the SATA ports there's six right over here one two three
four five six they're not always going to be right here on the edge of the board sometimes they'll be
right over here and sometimes they'll be flat rather than this 90° angle so just remember
that little l is going to be right here as well so then we'll just grab that cable
plug it in and now we have the data portion of the drive connected so now I’m going to
leave that connected because now that we have the data portion connected we're going to connect the
power connection this is going to come from your power supply your power supply should already have
these connections if not I’ll also go ahead and link down below additional adapters maybe you
only have one of these on your power supply the adapter will give you the ability to plug into
here to branch out to two others or one other or if you only have Molex this is sat up power
and this is Molex see the difference there Molex is an older power connection the SATA
power is newer now if you don't have SATA power you only have Molex I’ll also link down below
a Molex connector that goes from a single Molex out to two SATA powers okay so like the same way
we did right over here for the SATA data portion we're going to go ahead and connect the SATA power
right here easy enough right so essentially we're ready to go I’m going to show you
connecting it inside of the computer actually installing it in the computer and then we're
going to go activating it now depending on your computer the power supply is either going to be on
the bottom or the very top mine just happens to be at the bottom so make sure you go ahead and just
flick the power switch off to make sure that if it is connected while you're connecting the SSD
the power doesn't automatically come back on so that's just a safeguard the open side of a
computer this is kind of the reason why I showed you on the motherboard alone on an
entire computer it could be a little challenging now on some motherboards the connection will be
down here easy enough with nothing in the way but on this particular motherboard
it's along the side so the video card is in the way so I’m going to go ahead and move the video
card real quick now before we touch anything in this computer make sure to go ahead and ground
yourself I don't mean punish yourself and go in the corner I mean touch the computer steal
portions of the computer in case you have any ESD or electrostatic discharge to go ahead and
discharge that on the case you don't want to ruin other components inside of your pc
and remember the computer is unplugged now we can just pull this out okay so now we can see right
over here with that video card removed now we have access to that easy enough you see that little
metal portion that we had before that actually made that clicking sound locking the drive we have
that right over here and then remember that little l so now we'll just go ahead and plug that in
it clicks letting you know it's in place
and now we can use the other end to plug into our SSD before I do that I’m going
to go ahead and plug the video card back in and I’ll come back to you in one second
okay now coming around to the back we'll go ahead remove
these screws from the rear panel now there's going to be another one along the top
and then on this particular case there'll be another panel
blocking access I’ll go ahead and remove that for now there are three trillion different types of
cases so I could only show you in my particular case how it is your case is going to be different
if you want to know exactly for your case you're going to have to look at the case manual but this
will give you a general understanding of how to physically install the SSD now if you remember we
connected that SATA cable I just ran it along the bottom here out to the back so it's the same cable
and then remember how when we had the motherboard outside of the case we had a SATA power connection
that's this one right over here so set a power and SATA data now in this particular case
there is a tray we can go ahead and attach the SSD to the tray so go ahead just put it right
over here and then we're going to go ahead and align the screw holes with the holes on the tray
and then we'll just go ahead screw that in now we're going to need to do that
for the other three as well but since I showed you the first and it is that easy
I’ll go ahead and do the rest off camera and now in this case
there's going to be these little anchors right over here and they're going to fall into these two
holes so I’ll just move this cable and I’ll slide those two little anchors right into those holes
and then I’ll go ahead and screw that tray in
okay so the drive is there and now because we have the drive situated and I’ve shown you
how to connect them you know you match the l to the l we'll just go ahead and
plug that in right over here
set a power connected and now set a data right over here and everything is connected and now
zooming you out so you can see just how complicated it looks on the back but how easy
it was to install that SSD so now I’m going to go ahead and put this side panel back on
now the other side panel
and now we have two hidden SSD we just installed one of the two so let's go ahead and
connect this all up and let's install it within windows so let's go ahead turn around
all right so now that we're in windows we're going to do like we mentioned before we're
going to go ahead and initialize the disk and then go ahead and provide a drive letter
and then also format it so that we can actually utilize the disk if we click on file explorer
and then this pc you'll see we have the c the e the f and then a network drive
here but none of these are empty that's because we haven't initialized the disk
just yet so we'll just go ahead and close this and now we'll go ahead and right click on the
start button this is going to be the same in 10 that it is for 11. just a different
place for the start button we'll right click on the start button then click disk management
and now initialize disk pops up and then it shows select disk this zero now there is GPT
and MBR they're both good but MBR will not allow partitions larger than two terabytes and GPT will
GPT is newer so that'll accept any drive so we'll go ahead and leave GPT selected and click ok here
you'll notice that went from offline to online but still up here we still don't see that empty drive
so we'll see right along here unallocated disk 465.75 Gig’s that's that 500 gig western
digital drive that we just installed so all we do here now that this is online is we right click
on unallocated select new simple volume under the new simple volume wizard we'll click next we can
lower the size here to create partitions but I’m going to keep it easy if you'd like go ahead
comment down below if you want to see something on partitions though I don't recommend them anymore
but anyway we'll go ahead and click next here we can select whatever drive letter we'd like to give
it I recommend staying away from A and B but D, G, H, I, all the way down nothing that you're using
already is here I’ll go ahead and select something off the wall so that you can see it I’ll select p
then we'll see assign the following drive letter we can also mount in the following empty NTFS
folder and do not assign a drive letter or drive path we'll keep it under assign the following
drive letter and we'll click next then here we get to select the file system type NTFS is perfect
that's what our c drive is that is what the rest of the drives in our system are formatted as so
we'll select NTFS default allocation unit size is fine and then the volume label so if we went
ahead and click next it'll be called new volume so I’m going to name this this is my new wd 500
blue and then I highly suggest keeping perform quick format on because if not this can take hours
this is only going to take a few seconds then we'll click next and finish now that's it I
didn't even get to tell you what was going to happen so we've initialized the disk and now
we've created that partition and now we have the drive so if I close everything like we did before
and I go back to this pc like I did before
and scroll down you'll see c e f and now the p drive that this is my new wd 500 blue so then
this is a brand new empty drive so if you wanted to we'll come over here to this pc prior to
making this video I copied over a ton of files videos over to my c drive to make it look full
437 so what I’ll do is I’ll right click I’ll cut come back over here and then I’ll paste this
so now that's copying all of the data over from my c drive over to my p drive now just know
that you can't simply copy or move a program from your c drive to your p drive or whatever
drive you decide to name it you can copy over documents or move over documents pictures videos
loose files like that downloads all that stuff programs that's going to be a little bit different
you're going to need to typically uninstall the program and reinstall it on the other drive if you
want to move that program over to your new drive steam epic and all those other gaming clients
they're going to work the same way now there's different types of methods to more easily move
them rather than have to uninstalled and reinstall we're not going to go over that in this video but
there are several methods to do that as well I want to try to keep this friendly for everybody
so in this video I’ve walked you through how to connect your SSD to your motherboard and how to
connect your SSD to your power supply after that we went ahead and I showed you how to install your
physical SSD into your computer case mind you it's going to be different on every single case
because there's a trillion different types of cases but I wanted to give you just a little
information on how to do that if anything for a case like that and then after that I showed you
how to boot into windows and then initialize your disk and then partition it so that that
way you had one large partition to copy over all of your files and your programs so hopefully
I’ve helped you out in that if you have any questions comments or concerns leave them down
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it helps me out a ton that way I can keep bringing you videos like this now on the screen as well
we're going to have two videos listed for you in case you want to learn how to install
windows on them right up here I have how to install windows on an SSD exactly like the one
we just installed and then right below that how to install windows on an M.2 SSD two different types
of SSD’s one faster than the other but either way it'll get the point across and then this
one tops it off with showing you how to install a second disk as storage so thanks again for
stopping by and I hope to catch you on my next one Iggy with ThisBytesForYou out see you guys