welcome to this bite for you in this
video I'm going to teach you how to
install your SSD into your computer how
to connect all the cables where all the
cables come from and then how to install
windows on it as well on top of that I'm
also going to show you maybe you're not
interested in installing it as a Windows
drive you want it as a secondary drive
I'm going to show you how to do that as
well let me know down in the comments
below if you want me to teach you the
same on an m2 SSD but anyway let's get
started with the process real quick
right over here we have the power supply
the motherboard and the SSD as well as a
SATA cable now I took everything out so
that you can see up close how everything
is to make it a little bit easier for
you to install into your computer so
first off we're going to be plugging in
the SATA cable and that goes right into
here on the motherboard any one of these
six ports now some other boards might
have the ports standing straight out
right over here some down here they're
going to be in a bunch of different
areas but just so that you know what
they look like they're gonna be one of
these six or four or eight however many
your motherboard might have and then
we're going to be connecting this into
there now if you notice right over here
there's a little L shape you'll notice
that same little L shape right over here
so when we go to install it we're going
to match up those L shapes so that it
connects just like that and then we're
going to connect that same L shape on
the other side of the cable to the L
shape right over here on the SSD and
simple
alright and we're connected now the
power supply I'm just going to move the
motherboard over for a second you have
this long strand of Madusa cables you
might get a little scared you may not
know which one to use
so the cable that you're going to be
focusing on is going to be a strand kind
of like this the end is going to look
just like that and like I showed you
with the SATA data cable there's that
little L notch right over here which
will also match up with the L notch
right over here and we'll just that's it
and it's connected now let me show you
how to put it inside your computer
alright now that I've shown you how to
install the SATA power side and the SATA
data side let's go ahead and put it
inside of the computer on my particular
case literally it's going to be on the
back of the computer just to keep
everything hidden so then we'll go ahead
and grab a SATA power cable and connect
it just like I showed you making sure to
match up the little owls and then we'll
go ahead and connect the SATA data cable
okay now because this is a SATA drive
there are no moving parts you can kind
of just throw it in there though I don't
recommend it not only do you want it to
look beautiful but you want it to work
as it should so we'll go ahead and
install that real quick alright so we
got that installed not going to go over
very detailed on how to do that because
it literally will be different for every
single case coming in from where you
would normally look inside your computer
I just wanted to show you this is where
the SATA cables go connected now on many
motherboards it'll be on the side here
maybe on the bottom here facing down
like this is facing sideways now on a
lot of other motherboards it'll be
either right here or right here facing
towards you so instead of plugging in in
sideways you would plug it in directly
into the board but I just wanted to show
you this side just in case like you were
looking inside your computer alright now
let's get started with the install and
then also using it as
a storage drive now let's go through the
process of how to use it as a storage
drive so we'll go ahead just turn on the
computer real quick okay so now that
we're on Windows if we went to click on
the file explorer here and on this PC
well we don't see a new drive we see the
two drives that we had there before they
don't we just install a new drive that's
ok
so it's a little bit odd the way you got
to do it but I'm gonna show you how to
do that real quickly so we'll just close
out of File Explorer here well
right-click on the start button here and
then we'll click Disk Management okay so
this management right now shows these
two drives that I have this 0 and disk 1
and if we scroll down a little bit
hey what's this this two I'm gonna go
ahead and expand it so we can see all
the drives so disc 0 is my primary C
Drive and then all the other partitions
that Windows puts in there for you now
we have my other drive my D Drive that's
where I have another install of Windows
so over here we can see we have a 465
game or 500 gig unallocated dry and
you'll notice the allocated ones are in
blue unallocated which means completely
empty is in black ok so what we'll do is
here where it shows unallocated we will
right click and then we'll click new
simple volume and then we'll go through
the simple volume wizard so next if you
want to make partitions you would change
that here I'm going to make it an entire
Drive next assign the drive as Drive II
and we can change that if we wanted to
next and then I'm going to name this one
WD
demo install and then we'll click I'll
leave that as perform a quick format and
then we'll click Next and finish so
within a few seconds we can see it's
formatting but within a few seconds this
shows up WD demo install II so I'll
close out of here I'll open file
explorer go to this PC and bam there we
can see our
ud demo install drive it's there it is a
drive and if we wanted to to save some
space and I'm just going to go ahead do
one file I'm gonna go ahead click on
that file go to that drive that I just
created paste and now it's out of my C
Drive into my drive saving some space
mind you you're going to want to move a
lot more than just one file but just to
give you an example and now you can
install games applications use it for
storage whatever you like so now I'm
gonna show you real quick how to install
Windows 10 on it so what I'm going to do
to prepare it now mind you is this is a
new Drive you don't have to worry about
it I'm doing this to make it easy for
people that might have had already a
drive that they use and want to convert
into a C Drive if they have other drives
so I'm gonna go ahead and click again
this management and to not confuse
myself I don't want to overwrite the
zero disk one or disc two so I'm gonna
right click on WD demo install and I'm
going to click delete volume and yes
okay so there we go now if this was a
brand new drive you might have to
right-click over here under the disk and
then initialize the disk but I don't
have to initialize the disk because I've
already used it before okay so now it is
a 100% clear partition and let's go
ahead and install Windows 10 now I
created a Windows 10 install drive I'll
go ahead and link up above so that you
can know how to create one of these as
well for me this is the best method to
install Windows 10 as Microsoft creates
updates they're going to include it in
their latest version with the windows
media creation tool it allows you to get
oh is the latest version that way when
you install your windows you don't have
a trillion updates you might only have a
hundred but anyway let's get to that
real quick and then I'm gonna go ahead
and right-click hover over shut down or
sign out and then click restart alright
after we've restarted the computer on
the bias post screen we're going to want
to
the lead or f2 whatever it is to enter
your particular bias now your bias is
going to look different than mine I have
the EVGA z 390 dark motherboard
everything should be relatively similar
if there is something that you're not
too sure on go ahead and ask me down in
the comments below I'd always be more
than happy to help you out so we're
going to go under advanced configuration
enter setup then we're going to go under
save and exit and then here we're going
to go down under UEFI SMI USB disk 1100
or whatever the thumb drive you have is
it will be listed there so we're going
to go ahead and hit enter there because
I've created the drive under the media
creation tool kit I've selected to have
64-bit and 32-bit options I'm going to
select 64-bit and I apologize I'm
actually recording off of my monitor my
capture card is having issues so this
turns out to be the best and the only
way right now okay
we'll click Next here install now I
don't have a product key or enter your
own product key then select the version
of Windows 10 - Pro accept the license
terms of course after you read all that
and next make sure to choose custom
install windows only advanced ok so then
when you come here to the windows cell
where do you want to install windows
you might notice if you have other
drives there's going to be a bunch here
I always recommend to install with no
other drive plugged in but if you have
to notice drive one has four different
partitions it's also down here under
partition four 930 gigs or one terabyte
we want to install on to the 500 big
drive so I'll select the unallocated
space and click Next okay now this is
going to go through its entire process
I'm gonna go ahead and fast-forward
through this entire part
you
now if you already had a drive with
windows installed and you're installing
this drive and you're installing windows
on the second drive you're going to be
given this option which you want to boot
off some people like to have dual boot
os's they want to keep on their their
stuff there I like one OS one option so
we're going to select volume two alright
so now we're in Windows we've just
installed windows we're good now it's
going to be setting up everything mind
you if you're connected to the Internet
it'll start downloading drivers and all
that good stuff I might recommend to not
be connected to the Internet that way
you can install your own drivers that
you might have prepared before but
that's a different story so in order to
fix that multiple boot thing we're going
to want to click on the start button and
type in MS config and press Enter ok so
then after we go into boot we're going
to see the one we just installed and
then the previous one so what we can do
is click on the previous one and then
click delete ok that's not going to
delete that drive that drive will be
intact that's just going to delete a
boot partition that way you don't boot
directly to that drive anymore you boot
to this one I'm going to keep that on
there because that's the OS I'm using in
the background now if you want to change
back to this one just select it and
click set as default so in this video
I've shown you how to install an SSD how
to connect all the cables and how to get
everything working from top to bottom
and even to installing Windows 10 so I
hope I helped you out in this video and
this is part of the basic series now on
this video I show you how to not only
download the Windows 10 but create the
thumb drive that I used to install this
version of Windows 10 now mind you since
this was a quick fast forward kind of
installing Windows 10
over a lot but in this video right below
that I show you how to install Windows
10 from start to finish my friends if
you have any questions please don't
forget to leave them down in the
comments below I always try to respond
to all of your questions again see you
guys
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