How do you add a hard drive to your computer?

It depends on what computer model you have. Some motherboards won't let you add a drive internally. Some cases aren't large enough or have an empty bay for a 2nd drive. The easiest, fastest, most failsafe way to do it is to get an external USB hard drive. Just plug it into your USB port and you're ready to go. It will show up in My Computer or Windows Explorer with a new drive letter (probably "D"), unless you already have partitions on your existing drive.

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