How to connect your old hard drive

To connect old hard drive to the computer, you should follow certain precautions. Otherwise, you risk not only burning the hard drive, but get an electric shock.

You will need

Personal computer hard disk.

Instruction

First you need to disassemble the computer case. Before you begin this procedure, make sure that the system unit is not connected to the network. To get to the desired sector, it is necessary to remove both side walls of the housing. To do this, loosen the screws fixing them and slide out of the wall. You can now proceed to connecting the hard drive.

Before you plug in the power cord and ribbon cable to the hard drive, hook it in the system unit. For this, the corps provided special shelves. The device must be fixed with screws. As soon as you connect the hard drive, plug in the power cord and cable of data transmission. Make sure all the wires are plugged tightly attached to the outputs of the device.

Not collecting the housing, connect the computer to the network and make sure that the device is working properly. In that case, if the hard disk will not work, it is possible that it is damaged or loosely attached to the power contacts, or train data transfer. If the unit is working fine can collect the body, securing the walls in their original position. Before you consolidate the wall of the system unit, it is desirable to shut down the computer, unplugging it.

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