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How To Install an Internal Hard Drive

If you're comfortable tinkering with your PC a little, you may be able to install an internal drive in your system yourself. Here's what you need to do: 1. Make sure that you are not carrying a static charge when you touch anything inside your computer. Touch something else that’s metal before you start, to discharge any static electricity. Don’t work near anything that might give you a charge, such as carpeting under your fuzzy slippers. If your environment is static-prone, you can buy an ...

Partition Your Hard Drive

If you’re out of space on your system, it’s time to add a new hard drive to your PC or just reconfigure an old one. There’s no real need to set up even the largest drives into multiple partitions anymore, as the system BIOS can address all the storage in one partition. However, partitions can still make for good housekeeping, and you might consider creating a separate partition for any network shares you’d like to make, for storing drivers and software installation files that you plan to reuse a...