How to Install an IDE Hard Drive

Video Transcript

" Hi! I’m James Adams and I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com and now we’re going to talk about IDE hard drives. So now we have the cable connected to the motherboard. All power supplies come with these white connectors, which is for power on the hard drive and then the hard drive we need to have it set. So like I said before you need to have the pin corresponding with what spot on the cable the hard drive is going to occupy. In my case on this example, we’re going to use master, so the pin is set to master and the pin is connected like this. The pin connects going up and down. It never connects like that in the set of the master position. We ake the master connector on the IDE cable and like I said, it’s keyed so is the cable. Snap it in, take the power connector snaps in and then all we have to is drop in your shiny new hard drive. Now the hard drive has some holes to put screws. In my case, I put them right here. You just put screws and you’re done, you’re finished your hard drive is installed. In case you wanted to make this hard drive a storage hard drive for windows, let’s say you have windows you filled it up, all you have to do is take the pin out, put it on the slave position, let’s pretend this one already goes to a hard drive so you would put it right here and you’re done."