Change a Computer Hard Drive Disk

How to Change a Computer Hard Drive Disk(1)

This guide is going to take you through simple step to changing your hard drive

Steps

1.Static electricity can seriously damage the components inside a computer. To avoid this you must ensure you are grounded when operating inside your computer. One way to do this is to purchase an anti-static wrist strap which you should wear at all times. The wrist-strap plugs into an electrical socket which will automatically discharge the static electricity in your body.

2.If you don't have one then every one minute touch the back of the tower where the metal is. The static from your body will go there.

3.The hard drive.A hard drive - which is also called a "hard disk" - is much like a filing cabinet. The programs and data are stored on the hard disk and the computer accesses them as they are needed. When the computer accesses the hard drive, it is reading and moving the stored information into the RAM memory. That memory is the temporary workspace. However, the original file is still on the hard disk and is left undisturbed until the file is saved.

4.When the computer stores or "saves" information, it writes the data to the hard disk. That process results in the old file being replaced or modified with the new information. If you save data to a new file, or install new software, the information is written to the disk in an available, unused portion of the disk.

5.Getting into the tower. Open both sides of computer case by removing screws at the back of the tower and sliding the panels off.

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