How to connect hard drive to laptop

Connect the SATA disk involves mounting this disk in the housing. But in the case of a laptop - mount in the enclosure will not work. It is therefore necessary to find alternative ways of connection. The mount operation will take no more than 10 minutes. With the knowledge of all the little things to connect a hard drive can be much faster. All the nuances of this kind of hard disks you can find below.

You will need

• Set the SATA disk, USB-container, laptop.

Instruction

1. The main characteristics of the disks:
   
   - The SATA cable has the same connectors. One connector leads to the motherboard, the second directly to the hard drive. Improper connection of SATA-disks is an impossible operation;
   
   SATA drives do not have the presence of a jumper connection is very simple;
   
   - SATA drives for notebooks differences do not have and established by the additional device.
2. In order to connect a SATA disk you need:
   
   - buy a USB container to external hard drives;
   
   - put the disc in the container and connect the inner leads;
   
   - connect the connecting cable leading to the USB connector in the laptop.
3. In order for your operating system can see the new disk, you must set the operating mode of the disk. Make the connection of all wires. On the adapter should light up the warning light.
4. Turn on the laptop, when the computer boots, press the Delete button.
5. The screen displays the BIOS Setup – go to the selection tab of the options installed devices – to view all available devices - among them should have a SATA HDD.
6. When you install any operating system requires an additional driver for your drive. However, some versions of operating systems are already equipped with such drivers.
7. When installing the hard disk with the installed operating system, drivers load into the system after turning on the computer and the appearance of the welcome screen.
8. After loading the operating system, some containers are automatically determined by the system. The screen will display the message on necessity of reboot. Click "Yes". The next time you reboot the drive will be installed. Go to "My computer" and make sure it is displayed.