Today I will show you how to mount the second hard drive in the laptop, instead of the optical drive, for this we will use in the adapter that I got from ebay, for this I paid 18 US dollars but these Adapters can be much cheaper if you take them from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc. ($ 7-9 US). The package came to my door in 7 days, it can come from Asia in 45 days. If you are not in a hurry… ..
I will not refer to itself buying its details (ebay fees, VAT, transport, customs, etc.) to this we have a tutorial about shopping on ebay.
First of all you need to know some details about your optical drive, so you can buy the right product.
The most important details are:
1. Profile optical drive, so must be the adapter (12,7mm or 9,5 mm)
2. Interface optical drive, so to be and adatptorul (ide or sata)
3. Interface hard drive that you will install (SATA or IDE)
I needed an adapter from SATA to SATA 12,7 mm, you may need something else, you must remove the optical drive and make sure before, to see what profile is and what interface. Besides, undoing optical drive can take courage to mount adapter (caddy, as it is called off).
For example, if you have an IDE optical drive and 12,7mm and hard drive which adapter to use it in is SATA, you need 12,7mm IDE adapter with SATA hard disk slot.
Those with ultrabooks with optical drive, definitely will need an adapter 9,5mm. In any case you should make sure in advance that you do not buy the wrong product.
Immediately after installation, and, as shown in the tutorial, worked hard disks, for it did not do special settings. When you are likely to be other settings in bios, usually optical drive is the boot priority (that and the new hard drive will be), if you have trouble booting the operating system after installing the new hard drive will need to enter the BIOS and place as the main boot drive to hard drive with the operating system.
HDD caddy to optical adapters on Ebay (I have not left link to a specific product because I do not know what you need)
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What kind of hdd you put it? the pc or laptop? (3.5 or 2.5 inch?)
As far as I know, the "Desktop Systems" HDDs are 3.5 "and the laptop ones are 2.5".
Indeed very useful tutorial. No I thought not possible. Although my laptop has already 2 HDD and optical drive is a Blu-Ray, I think I'll use your idea and make a memory expansion.
If you were a fan of the site, you would have seen the "episode" in which my colleague showed how to change the hard disk and the optical drive of a laptop.
There my colleague changed the laptop's hard disk with SSD
Well, the HDD he took out in that "episode" is now being replaced by the optical drive.
The conclusion? It is old laptop's HDD.
On normal hard disk slot has now installed an SSD and optical drive is mounted in place now the old HDD.
That's a good idea, I was thinking how to do to put an SSD in my laptop and look like someone came up with the idea and even show you step by step how to do. You did a great job, congratulations!
hello, I'm really looking and I found something like this at a boy in Bucharest, only I need PATA idea at sata (hdd) anyway ms for tutorial ...: P
How quickly it moves even when the laptop has an SSD. I saw that the laptop booted in a few seconds using that ssd.
People do not understand, how good is an SSD, and you can do with an SSD, the world just look at the price and that's all.
In general many of the Romans just want as large HDDs and save movies non stop, and listen to manele.
How Drek put the pc? Well you know how mean or 2.5 3.5 inch?
Thank you very much!
Congratulations cristi for tutorial!
A tutorial ff useful for many, I say.
Please show me someone who managed to put a 3.5 HDD in a laptop :)
Asus has succeeded, it has an older K93SV model that supports 3.5 SATA hard drives.