SimpleTech STD-CPHD/40 40GB Internal Notebook Drive Hard Disk Drive (Caddy Drive Upgrade for Dell)

hi guys my name is Jude from ascetics earlier this month I made a video on how to upgrade your laptop hard drive to an SSD without reinstalling Windows and without losing your files this video is more like an extension to that so instead of replacing your hard drive with an SSD here we'll be replacing our optical drive with an additional Drive and buy additional drive I mean either SSD or HDD it doesn't really matter the steps are basically the same in both cases so without any further ado let's get to the process [Music] in replacing an optical drive with an additional drive there are three main steps involved and the order of these steps depends on your needs so we have the software transfer the hardware transfer and the configurations the software transfer involves the copying of your operating system applications program files and folders and system settings to your new drive the ha