installing another hard drive

Well, I need an additional hard drive to store music on, and I bought a nice Western Digital 500GB SATA 7200 rpm hard drive. Now all I have to do is install it. I've never actually installed a hard drive before, but I have seen it done. I've removed a hard drive...actually the one I removed is around my house someplace but I can't find it atm. It's the drive from my old machine. I do want to put it back in my machine whenever I find it but even so, I need a drive for music.

So....this is gonna be interesting. I am printing out the instructions on how to install it now. I hope I don't fuck up my machine irreparably! I was going to have Mack do it but then I said, well, I'm sure I can get directions from the web. It's times like these that I really miss having a computer guru boyfriend. Oh well. He did actually give me some brief advice on which hd to get but I certainly cannot get any further assistance from him. I also called my friend Duckie and left him a message telling him what I'm doing. Maybe he'll call me back.

I need this so I can upload all my music because I got an mp3 player for christmas that I haven't even touched until now because the idea of uploading all my cd's seemed like it wouldn't be much fun. But, since I'm having my party Saturday, I need music and I don't want to be switching cd's out all night.

I guess I'll hopefully still have the capability to post another entry later after I install it and everything is working perfectly LOL. Wish me luck!