Also as I now have Pinnacle Studio video editing software, I also got a basic PCI express Graphics card, to make the most of the program. Though my CPU is still minimum requirement, but as long as I don't have anything else running it should get by.
But there are always extra's when it comes to anything, I mean I couldn't just get the hard drive could I ! I also needed a sata cable which came in its own box quite secure from damage >
Then there was the mobile rack to put the hard drive in as not much room in my computer so I had to use the 2nd DVD slot and fit the Rack/tray there.
This was not hard to fit, but unfortunately the screw holes don't quite match up with my case, so I really need a bit of meccano to clamp it in.
Even though the Sata drive is classed as 300MB/sec and the tray is only 150MB/sec, I don't believe I will suffer from loss of the speed as I don't believe computers can run at 300MB/sec yet.
After having put the hard drive in the tray, I took it out again so that I could connect it directly to the motherboard to format it, and that is where I had to do some googling.
The hard drive was showing up in the Bios, but not in My Computer, and as I hadn't fitted a brand new hard drive before I had to search for help.
It was quite easy to do, and I think I have actually read a while ago but forgot.
What I had to do was Right Click on My Computer > select Manage > then select Disc Management from the tree. Then it was just initialing the new hard drive and a quick format, then it was use-able.
It then went back into the tray and I transferred My Documents to the new drive.
The Graphic card ( which I meant to photo in situ but didn't ) is a inno3D 7200GS,and fitting that was easy as I just slotted it in, switched computer on and installed the drivers. All I had to do then was set it to the correct screen resolution.
I now have no excuse not to do any home video editing.
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