How to Install an Internal CD-RW Drive

Video Transcript

"Whether you want to burn music to listen to on the road or you want to back up your data on a CD, you probably want to do with a CD-RW Drive. My name's James, computer hardware training coordinator for InterConnection and I can show you how to install CD-RW Drive into your computer. Now the first step is install the screws on the side of the player. Dependent on your machine, you may have different screws or different slots. Some machines have rails that go right here others have these rounds type of screws that go on here that slide into the machine. Other ones you just slide in and put screws through the side of the case into this to hold it into place. In our case we're using these little slide screws. These came with our computer so we're not going to be utilizing the ones that came out of the package. Like I said you have to look at how all the other drives are installed and go off that. So we'll install the screws. Now one thing to keep in mind this metal is very thin so you don't have to torque these very hard just install them like so,a little twist and that's really all it takes. Now once you have all your screws installed we're going to take this drive, insert it in here like this, it's going to lock into place. Now the hardware aspect of this is complete. Next we're going to install the IDE cable being very cautious not to bend any of the little pins that go in here. These IDE cables tend to only go in one way which is the reason you have this key up top. So we're ahead and install that now pushing it snuggly in. Now we're going to take our power cable install in here. It only installs one way. One finial thing to keep in mind is you do have jumper settings that's plugged into the top drive which is going to be the master, if it's plugged into the next one IDE cable it's going to be slave and cable select basically tells the drive to try to figure it out for itself. You're going to want to make sure you have it properly configured for however you have it installed. My name's James and I just showed you how to install an internal CD-RW Drive."