How to Upgrade Your Hard Disk Drive

hi my name is Carrie Holzman and today I'm going to show you how to do a hard drive replacement upgrade basically I'm just buried and work over here and it's 7:30 at night on a Saturday so if the colors in the video seemed a little off it's because I'm working without the Sun so but that's the way it is I got a lot of work to do and there's no days off for me until I get caught up so I'm gonna try and film as much of it as I can and what I've got here is a computer that I built back in December about seven months ago for this customer and he already had a 500 gig SSD solid-state drive in his computer that we were upgrading from so we just carried that over into this build and I suggested he get the 1 terabyte drive but he wasn't going to have it it was too much money and now he's already filled it up so we have to replace it and we went out and got a Samsung one terabyte it's the Samsung 850 Evo which is a great Drive and super fast and we can even enable something called rapid mode once we get the Samsung magician softer in there which makes the drive seem even faster than it already is you should be a happy camper now there's a couple ways we can accomplish this task one way would be that we could hook this drive up with a USB cable and do the hard drive cloning right through USB but I want to get this done sometime today and going through USB is just too slow but going through USB it's a little less technical as far as you know you're not messing with as many wires and such inside of the computer which understandably makes some people nervous and if you are interested in doing that you can get a little USB hard drive adapter like this or if you already have an external drive one of these little two and a half inch laptop drives like what I've got here and if the drive is failed you can crack these open and take the little circuit board out and that little circuit board you can then plug in to any two-and-a-half inch laptop size drive and that will be powered and accessable through the one single USB cable this one I think came out of a Western Digital but it'll work on Seagate's and well pretty much anything that's got the static connector on it and if you don't have any of the little two and a half inch adapters here's another one this is the I believe this is called the Bulldog from from cavalry I did a review on this a while back but if you don't have one of these little ones one of these harddrive docking stations like this will also do the trick where you have to provide power to this and then you plug it into your USB port and you can plug in a standard three-and-a-half inch desktop hard drive or the two and a half inch laptop drive so the two and a half inch or three-and-a-half inch are referring to how wide the drive is and all the SSDs now all the solid-state drives are all laptop size drives to the two and a half inch size but they'll work just fine in a desktop obviously a desktop drive at three and a half inches wide will not fit in to any laptop whatsoever they're far too large so that's the logic behind it but we're not going to be doing any of that today what I will do is get my patient ready because here we've got our patient my operating table we've got our our monitor keyboard mouse there so we can keep an eye on the stats of our patient while we're operating on them and these are my USB dongles for the wireless keyboard and mouse I'm going to go ahead and plug those into the back here right now using the black USB ports and I want to go ahead and take the side panel off on this computer so we'll get the screw driver here and let's just turn this to the side where you can see what's going on there we go and we're just going to take out this two screws this is a Corsair 200 R I do not believe I filmed this build when I did it I do so many of them I only felt film about one out of every 30 computers that I build somewhere there you know every two dozen three dozen computers I buy film one so I don't think I filmed this one but what happened here this is something the customer and I wouldn't give it to the customer like this he put a card reader in here or replace the card reader he had and just slapped it in there and you know he did a pretty good job he didn't he doesn't care about the wiring obviously but we'll probably clean that up for him just because we're because I'm a nice guy like that so what I can do with the computer open is take the new drive which I've got right here let's go ahead and get this out of its box well still got the tape on it get that tape cut there we go all right so let's get the drive removed there's all the software there's the drive this is the thing we need see like when you have one of these little adapters you just plug that right on so and then just plug it into the USB port but again it the data transfer just moves too slow for me to do it that way so we're going to plug it in right up here we're going to unplug the CD drive or the DVD drive we're going to use the power cable in the data cable from the optical drive and we're just going to let the drive hang their versa whether it's a mechanical drive or a solid-state drive you can let it hang there you just don't want to bump it especially if it's a mechanical drive anyway you don't want to bump it well it's got power to it and that's just a pretty much good rule to follow even with a solid-state drive in case when your cables falls out and it's in the middle of a write it can corrupt data on it so also make sure that when it's hanging like this you don't want it leaning against anything metal you don't want it too short anything out the Samsun drive this plastic it seems on this side and metal on that side so I think potentially it could short things out but there's nothing back here so we're just let it hang right back here now I'm going to rotate this around a little bit so you can see the front here now here's the next step the next step is I've got a program called a Cronus sure image the Cronus has been out many many years and I've talked about it before I actually like using the 2011 version unless I'm cloning Windows 8 or doing anything with Windows 8 then I've got to use 2013 or newer because of the GPT partitions and whatnot but anyway I've got when you install a Cronus true image it gives you the option of making a rescue disk or rescue boot USB Drive and I've installed it on my main computer not on this computer and on my main computer I made the the rescue boot USB boot drive and this has the Acronis software on it which is all I need to do all the cloning that I want to do so that's made it real easy and I know there's some free alternatives out there Acronis is a paid product but to me none of them are as easy or as reliable and straightforward as a Cronus's and let me show you how this works we're going to go ahead and just go ahead and plug this USB stick in the back here and we've already got a keyboard mouse plugged in so we'll plug in the monitor and I want to make sure I plug the monitor into the video card not into the motherboard because the motherboard has built-in video but we're not using that I've seen people they plug their monitor right up there into the mother the motherboard when they've got a discreet video card and they go computer's coming on but am I getting any video because you didn't plug it in the right place last thing you'll see me plug in is the power make sure the switch is off on the power supply plug that in flip the switch to on on the power supply and we'll come around front and we're going to turn it on and I immediately want to go into the BIOS and what I want to do is I want to change the boot order I don't want it to boot from the hard drive I want it to boot from the USB Drive and the BIOS isn't going to know that so I'll just keep pressing delete on the keyboard here until I get into the BIOS there we go and then what I can do is we'll just arrow over here to boot override and it's asking me what I want to boot from and I will say a data USB flash drive and I can I can select the UEFI version or the regular version I'm going to select the regular version because I've seen some incompatibilities where it doesn't boot right with UEFI says are you sure I say yes and now when it boots it says a starting starting a Cronus loader and the options are to do the system report or to start the true image home software so now Acronis True Image home 2011 is loading and we're bypassing the internal hard drive at this point on the boot process and it's going to take in a minute to analyze the system and when you get to the main screen you what do you want to do I want to go to tools and utilities and you have all these options I want to clone the disc when you clone a disc you've got to make sure that the amount of data you're going to clone will fit on the drive that you're cloning - in other words if so right now he's got a 500 gigabyte solid state drive that's completely filled so we're moving almost 500 gigs of data he's got maybe a few percent in 1% of drive space free or something ridiculously tiny which is affecting his computer performance it's slowing everything way down you always want 10% of your drive space available so anyway what I was getting at is if we were going to a smaller drive obviously we can't cram 500 gigs of data onto a 250 gig drive it won't fit if he if this was a one terabyte mechanical drive and he was only using 200 gigs of it let's just say and he gets this 250 gig solid-state drive can you move can you clone a 1 terabyte drive to a 250 solid state or otherwise if there's less than 250 gigs of data yes you can with a Cronus software with the you might have seen in some of my previous videos that our hard drive cloners where it's just a machine that clones it's a sector-by-sector clone where it doesn't care about the operating system it's just copying every sector if you've got a terabyte worth of sectors you cannot move those onto 250 gigs worth of sectors it won't fit even though you're only actually you you know whatever the amount of space is on a mechanical hardware harddrive cloner it's a sector-by-sector copy so you have to go the same size or larger in most cases that's irrelevant anyway in this particular case because we're going to a larger drive so hopefully I didn't confuse you with that but I know it's a question that gets asked a lot and I just wanted to clarify that and if you need to learn more about it there's plenty of information on the web you can google it or play this back several times until it makes sense to you what we want to do to start the clone we select clone disk which is right here and it's got an automatic mode or a manual mode we can use automatic because the drive we're going to clone too is brand-new it's never been partitioned or formatted so a Cronus can work out gee I wonder which drive he wants to clone the one with the data on it or the one that's brand-new that has never been partitioned or formatted it's going to obviously no we want to clone the old one to the unused one so automatic mode is fine we click Next and it shows a summary that the source disk is disk one and the target disk is disk two and it says before you clone you've got one terabyte of data which shows 931 point 5 gigabytes and after you clone this agreeing part of the of the of the bar here is how much data is going to be used on the new drive now you can go back to previous screens if you want to verify which drive is drive one and which drive is drive two if you plug them into the proper SATA controller parts on the motherboard your main drive should always be disk one you know some people will say to me what difference does it make if you plug it in SATA port 0 or SATA port 3 there if you've got a motherboard will they all run the same speed you can adjust which one you want to boot in the BIOS the reason why I will plug in the main drive into port 0 or port 1 depending on the board is for this very reason when you're bringing up Disk Utility software and you want to make sure that you're on the right disk because it could be devastating and I want to emphasize this as much as I can if you attempt to clone from your empty Drive to the one that is you're trying to clone from if you get it backwards you will wipe out all of your data it will be gone so you don't take this lightly in fact I'd even recommend you have an image backup before you start in fact I've already done that off-camera took about an hour using the Acronis software and I just imaged his current Drive into a file onto an external drive so if I completely screw everything up there's a safety that I can fall back on it's time-consuming but it's an investment for that safety net now it's giving us this description of what the drive looks like before it's cloned which is shows everything's unallocated no partitions no formats this is what it's going to look like after then you can click proceed or cancel I'm going to click proceed and it's working now we sit and wait for this to finish which shouldn't take too long because we're going from one SSD to another but we are moving quite a lot of data so this is showing it's going to take 8 minutes I think that might be a little generous but what I'm going to do is I'll come back when the when the process is completed because I don't want to run my batteries down just staring at a screen with a slow progress bar that I'm just going to edit out later so I'm going to go ahead and stop the camera here and when I come back I'll show you what we do once this process is complete to finish the upgrade it's very very simple all right you know what that only took about ten minutes that wasn't too bad clone disk operation succeeded now when you click OK and you close this out it's going to want to reboot but we don't want to reboot yet so at this point all you have to do is hold the power button in I was reaching around the back to hit the power supply power switch which you can do too but in this case it's all the way down on the bottom if you hold the power button in for about five seconds or so the machine should turn off that works on desktops or laptops and you'll see this blue light on the USB card reader stays on that's pretty normal for some card readers it's often a complaint you'll read about when you read the reviews on some of these card readers and you're thirsty for the head while you take your time save some for the fish all right buddy anyway the blue light that's on the USB card reader some USB card readers do that even though the computer is off and like I said that does irritate some people but a little piece of electrical tape will cover that right up and solve that problem for you real easy but now that we've got the drive cloned what I want to do is I want to disconnect the drive the new drive this is the one terabyte drive and I'm going to plug the optical drive back in the way it was and I don't necessarily need to remove the other solid-state drive I need to install this one and I can install it right beside right here like so and move the SATA connector and the hard drive power connector over but the problem is I've got these wires so tight it looks like I'm going to have to do a little bit of cabling work here so if that's the case I'm going to go ahead and unplug everything which is always a good idea to do before you start working on the inside of the computer anyway we're going to get rid of the flash drive we're done with that for now in fact we're done with it for good for good and let's go ahead and take this other side panel off and this is one of the downsides of doing your cabling all nice and neat is when you go to do what should be a you know a fairly quick upgrade now it gets a little bit more complicated as you have to rearrange your wire and then reset it up so that it looks nice again so you can see how nice that looks here got such a nice cabling and unfortunately well looks like I'm gonna have to get the wire cutters out why is ooh and set them free there we go there's one all that work I spent making that look pretty and just gonna undo it but what are you going to do pays the bills all right so this is our power connector here and I see what I've got going on here is I've got the same power connector going up to the optical drive and I don't know that I'm going to have to available to plug in for the solid-state drives it just isn't enough I'm just there isn't enough cable to do it so what I'm going to do is unfortunate but I don't really have a choice I'm going to have to run the cable internally and I think maybe I can leave a little portion of it out there let's see if we can plug one in on this drive one in on this drive oh it doesn't look like it's gonna fit maybe is it it's awfully tight let's see what its gonna do is it going to let us do it yes it does and wouldn't you know it we're about half an inch too short so there is another alternative to this and that is that we can take the drive on this particular case we can move this drive out of its position and put it above the other drive like this now the two cables will go right above each other like so and will this reach the optical drive now it does so that's what I say when people say can you show us how you do cabling it really depends on what power supply you've got what case you've got how long your cables are much hardware you've got and I'm going to go ahead and leave power hooked up to the old hard drive for now I'm going to grab the old SATA can a table which is connected to SATA port 0 plug it in to the new hard drive that we just cloned again I've removed the flash drive so it should boot to the newly cloned 1 terabyte solid-state drive and the old drive won't be seen by the operating system because we haven't plugged it into the motherboard yet but we don't want to until we know we don't to make any changes to the original source drive until we know for a fact that our clone was successful the way we're going to know that is Windows should boot up with all the programs and icons and wallpaper and everything even if there were viruses temp files we get it all on a clone so just keep that in mind you know if you've got a virus on your hard drive and you clone it you just clone the virus just so you know so once again we're back to hooking the monitor back up and we're going to put power to it here there we go and here we go let's see if what I did works if I turn this this way you can see the computers working the fans are turning get this fan going this fan going looks like yeah I hooked up this fan in the front normally I don't but because he's got this GeForce GTX 970 in here I want the airflow over that video card if he did not have a discreet video card if he was only using the motherboard video then I wouldn't even have plugged this fan in it's just not necessary excuse me here we go this is his desktop right here this is a warning that it detects there's no speakers plugged in and wants to know if we want to disable the sound or if we want to check our speakers I'm just going to tell it new and you've got a program that's trying to start malwarebytes says it's out of date now it says installing new driver software that's going to be for the new drive we plugged in and it's when you whenever you change your hard drive out it's going to want to restart the computer after the driver gets installed for the new hard drive there it is right there restart now restart later let's hit restart now and then we'll wait for that to boot one more time and then when it does I'm going to check the free space on the C Drive because he should have a bunch of free space there this is normal to the waiting for background programs to close happens because it was still pre loading some stuff the reason it was not as fast as it normally is it had to slow down install those drivers so the boot up process was taking longer than it should and I'm impatient I don't want to wait for it so that's okay that won't happen under normal operating circumstances so if you see that don't freak out so here we go it's starting back up again does the windows flag even come together doesn't even come together yet it's already booting to the operating to the desktop and it should boot much faster this time and he's got a bunch of programs on this thing alright so so you just so you guys know this thing is filled big time so here we are with the no speakers are plugged in yes I know I'm going to go to the computer icon just close all this out go to the computer icon here and there's our C Drive and it's showing that it's half full now before it was completely full we go to the properties the blue is what we're using and the pink is what's available so it says we're using four hundred and sixteen gigs and five hundred and fifteen gigs are available so the clone was successful we don't have to repartition anything Acronis did all that automatically Acronis partitioned both partitions on the drive resize them accordingly and and that's great now what I can do is shut this down again and now we're bytes is saying it's out of date I'm not plugged in to an internet connection you'll see on the back of this computer there's no Ethernet cable so that is nothing I can do about that for right now and I don't care right now one thing at a time once the system's done I put the side panels back on it we can resolve any software related issues he still has something waiting to close again I'm I have a feeling that there's something that's trying to load that maybe a piece of hardware it could be like a printer monitor for many you know HP or Epson Canon Samsung printers have a monitor and oftentimes they're searching on the network trying to find it and they can search for two or three minutes or you could have something else going on I don't know but again not worried about it at this point because we're not done yet and what I want to do now is grab an extra SATA cable and plug it into the old drive into the next available SATA port which is going to be actually the optical drive I've got plugged in right behind the video card which is kind of hard to get at but I want to move that up to SATA port three there or I think that's three so that the the SATA port one zero will be used for the main drive one will be used for the secondary drive and then we'll grab a couple screws just to secure that in place like you always see me do I put the two screws here on the side so let me go and do that real quick and I'll be right back okay so I've got a couple extra screws here and I got an extra SATA cable now because I work on so many computers I have this stuff laying around but if you're going to do your own upgrade keep that in mind you might need to have the spare screws and a spare cable which is why you always see me collect all the extras and put them in the box and give that box to the customer and ordinarily I would ask for that box back however for this customer I did not I didn't think about it at the time I'm kind of regretting that now because now I'm using my own parts but he's a good customer saw it take care of me takes care of me it's all good anyway I want to go ahead and secure the new drive that we just put in and he's never gonna notice these screws are different anyway he's not going to care I mean he saw the way he left that cable he just wants the computer to run quickly and reliably and I drop the screw and it's really important if you do that that you find out where it went and get it you don't want any loose screws rolling around inside of here because they could short something out and turn a simple upgrade into a complete disaster now one of the things you might have to do is completely unplug the computer because I'm going to demonstrate and pick the computer up flip it upside down until the screw comes out okay now we can go back to what I was doing here and put this last screw in it's why it helps to have a magnetize tip screwdriver this one is magnetic but it's losing its charge I'm going to have to run it through my little magnetizer again and it's just not quite lined up and loosen the other one up a little bit here so that the drive will wiggle around so we can get that screw lined up there we go much easier and again that's why you don't tighten all the screws down until all the screws are at least three-quarters of the way in to avoid that very problem now I'm not going to worry about making this cable look really clean right now I just want to make sure everything's going to work so turn this around so you can see I'm going to plug in the SATA cable here onto the old drive not staying in this little metal clip is supposed to lock it in and it's not locking in that is discouraging I don't know why we might have a bad cable let's see if the other end does the same thing the other end is doing the same thing that suggests to me that the drive itself is at fault here or it could be could be the cable this one seemed like it was okay no it's the drive look at that so that one snaps in and this one does not now I don't know if the customer gets something to it but that can come loose and shipping and that's really disappointing and it's something to be addressed when I do the cabling and when I do the cabling if I do it right it should be tight enough so there's not any movement on it to reduce the likelihood of that falling out you know it'll bite by wrapping this cable I can add pressure like I'm doing right now it's pushing it in and that will keep the cable in and it's something to consider when you're doing your cabling now what I want to do at this point is plug it all back in turn it back on and then just reformat that drive and you'll have his old Drive will be completely empty and available for him to use and his new drive will only be half full and available for him to use as well so here we go turn it back on all right so here we go with these warning messages again that's unique to this motherboard it's got this sound blaster x53 sound chip built on the motherboard and it throws this fit when it notices there's no speakers plugged in let me go over to the computer icon and I should see two hard drives now I see the C Drive the system reserved partition of the D Drive which is part of the of this of the main drive this is part of Windows 7 does this creates this little partition and then it says local disc II and it says there's only 49 gigs free out of 465 we know that's the old drive so what I can do is go to the control panel I don't even have to do that I can just do it right here I can right click on the drive click format and we'll just select a quick format which is already checked click start are you sure yes and that's going to wipe that drive out now format erases everything so make sure you're formatting the right Drive and that you've got a data backup in case your new Drive fails which does happen and you might need to then do a restore from a backup so I can't emphasize enough the importance of backups I don't make any money whether you choose to backup or not so there's no financial incentive for me to advise you to do it so it's the drive is in use do you want to format in any way yes I don't know why the drive would be in use let's format it and it's already done and now we have a big blank 500 gig solid state drive and I always like to turn off Drive indexing by going to properties and unchecking the box that says allow files on the drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties I just turn that off and it should be already turned off here and it is because when I cloned it I cloned it with all the settings that's what cloning does he won't be using the system reserved to drive at all so we could I think we can hide this but I'm not going to worry about it he's got his II drive there and his CD drive has shown up as well the F Drive so that's how it works the new drive is C and D the old drive is e the optical drive becomes f2 just keeps following the next drive letter does all that automatically or as Microsoft would probably rather me say Auto magically but it's not magic it's just programming anyway that's it for the upgrade now all I have to do is tie the cables back up make the cables look nice and neat put the side panels back on and deliver it right back to the customer that's all there is to it and apparently he's got something running on here whether it's a printer or it's something that wants internet access and it can't get it and it hasn't timed out and that's what's causing that during shutdown I'm not going to worry about it my guess is when the customers got it back with everything plugged into it that that won't happen but if it does the customer will reach out to me and I'll be able to address it through remote access it's nothing I need to even waste time looking at right now because it may not be an issue once it's at the customer customers location it either has been doing this for some time and it either doesn't bother him because he hasn't talked to me about it or it's never done it for him because as I mentioned before it either wants the internet or it wants a printer or some other peripheral and because it's not finding one of those things it's stalling and that's preventing it from closing without that error message but in either case the job is the hard part of the job is done Acronis makes that very easy I'll put a link to the Acronis software in the video notes below and you can decide for yourself I think they even have a free trial you can try it out but it's great for making system images it's great for cloning and a system image is a great form of backup but again if you've got viruses temp files it's going to get all that all your system restore points every single bit of data on your drive is going to get cloned over so I advise people to do it when a drive is new when you've just got windows installed and active window stays activated when you clone it when you've got all your updates installed all the updates clone over so it's really at a point in time it's an exact image of every bit of data on the day you made the backup so what you do is you make that is your main backup when you do that say every few months or however often you think you need to do it and then you use another form of backup where you just backup your My Documents folder and things like that for all the changes that you've been making on the computer since the image was done and then this way if your computer is stolen or you're getting you know a virus that encrypts all your data all you have to do is remove the virus or replace the computer whatever the case may be restore your image and then restore your what would be a differential backup of your My Documents folder and that's why you have to make the image about every six months or every few months because as the time goes on and you've made more changes to the computer for example Windows updates if we were to clone the hard drive or make an image of it rather today and the hard drive fails we have to replace it in January it's going to go back to everything the way it is today and we would have to then reinstall all the updates or any programs or program updates since you know that have occurred from today until January which could be very time-consuming so in that matter the the image backup is what we call perishable it's not good forever I mean it's always going to work but it may not be worth your while it may be useless to you without all the updates so when you make a lot of updates or a lot of changes that's a good time to make a new image as long as you know everything's working that's going to wrap up this video I hope you found it educational and enjoying I'll talk to you later thanks for watching

Channel: CareyHolzman

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Length: 35min 39sec (2139 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 06 2015