Question on adding a drive to a laptop. I have a HP dv7-1175nr that has a core 2 Duo 2.0 it also has I believe a Hitachi 5400 320 gig drive in it. I was thinking about adding a SSD (30-64 gig range) drive to it. I have opened up the laptop it does have the connection for an additional drive but there is no extra caddy. (I do not think I have ever seen that they advertise 2nd drive bay) But the power connection and data connection are just sitting there in the open. I think I could retro fit it with some sort of brace to hold a new drive firm. (Metal brace of some kind)
Through my years of computing I have only had a 1 drive system and I have a question. I want to basically have windows vista on the SSD and use the old drive for storage. If I add a SSD (with the original old drive taken out) do a fresh install. Then after it is running good install the old drive back in the second slot in will it conflict? I would not erase anything off of the old drive, so it would also have a copy of vista on it. I assume windows would boot off of the new ssd drive and then I should be able to see the second drive. Is it that easy?
I do have a adata 500 gig external hard drive at my disposal, so I guess if worse came to worse I could copy over files and put back on to a reformatted old drive.
Question on adding a new hard drive
Painbringer
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You would end up with two bootable partitions at this point. I would recommend backing up your information from your current drive to your external. Install the SSD in bay your initial drive is in and place your current drive in the second bay.
From there install Vista onto your SSD and following applications onto the drive also.
That's the best option in my opinion.
From there install Vista onto your SSD and following applications onto the drive also.
That's the best option in my opinion.