Q: My 1st hard drive is full so I am going to install the 2nd myself. It looks simple to do, I took it apart. It has a second bay and 2 additional wires. What do you recommend I buy and from who? I want at least a 100g drive. Can I transfer all of my music,pics,etc. to my new bigger drive, then use my 1st drive for normal daily use? Thanks Sorry, not 100gig. At least a 750gig or the 1TB
A: Well, I'm not sure what you mean by "2 additional wires," but I'm assuming you have an IDE or SATA cable (what transfers data) and a power cable. On an IDE drive, the power cable looks rectangular with 4 holes for the four rods on the power receptor on the HD. Both the data and power cables on a SATA HD look like tiny capital L's. I recommend Western Digital. I'm an IT tech by trade and have built 2 computers successfully. Both the HP and most of the Dells I handle use Western Digital HDs, and the only time they've failed on me was through CONSTANT writing and rewriting (video editing and rendering).