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2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only
1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
Hi,
Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
Hi,
Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
rick it as got another slot for another harddisk i just need the cable but i
dunno where i acn buy the cable from "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
rick it as got another slot for another harddisk i just need the cable but i
dunno where i acn buy the cable from "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
eSata cables:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...ds=esata+cable Laptops don't generally have additional slots for hard drives, only provisions for connecting external ones, are you certain you are looking at the right thing? -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... rick it as got another slot for another harddisk i just need the cable but i dunno where i acn buy the cable from "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
eSata cables: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...ds=esata+cable Laptops don't generally have additional slots for hard drives, only provisions for connecting external ones, are you certain you are looking at the right thing? -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... rick it as got another slot for another harddisk i just need the cable but i dunno where i acn buy the cable from "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
That model does not have provision for a second internal drive
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=4034195 You are seeing two partitions on a single drive and not 2 drives In order to connect a second drive you need a drive enclosure which uses either usb or eSata to connect to your laptop external ports Where a laptop has provision for a second internal drive there are no cables / connectors required the drive simply connects directly to the internal connection all ready inplace "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... rick it as got another slot for another harddisk i just need the cable but i dunno where i acn buy the cable from "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
That model does not have provision for a second internal drive
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=4034195 You are seeing two partitions on a single drive and not 2 drives In order to connect a second drive you need a drive enclosure which uses either usb or eSata to connect to your laptop external ports Where a laptop has provision for a second internal drive there are no cables / connectors required the drive simply connects directly to the internal connection all ready inplace "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... rick it as got another slot for another harddisk i just need the cable but i dunno where i acn buy the cable from "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
2nd harddisk for dv7-3020
According to this manual, there IS a second HD bay
http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01859261.pdf -- Thomas Wendell Helsinki, Finland Translations to/from FI not always accurate "DL" kirjoitti ... That model does not have provision for a second internal drive http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/d...roduct=4034195 You are seeing two partitions on a single drive and not 2 drives In order to connect a second drive you need a drive enclosure which uses either usb or eSata to connect to your laptop external ports Where a laptop has provision for a second internal drive there are no cables / connectors required the drive simply connects directly to the internal connection all ready inplace "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... rick it as got another slot for another harddisk i just need the cable but i dunno where i acn buy the cable from "Rick Rogers" wrote in message ... Hi, Your laptop has both eSata and USB connections, but no additional drive slots, it only accepts external drives. Your choices are to either purchase a USB-based hard drive enclosure or use an eSata drive w/cable such as the ones he http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...429&name=eSATA. The proper terms for your installed drive, to avoid confusion when you are describing it to others, is that it is a single physical drive partitioned into two volumes. This is common with most manufacturers, one is a recovery volume for use only when you have a complete operating system failure. Access to this should be described in your system documentation. -- Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/ Windows help - www.rickrogers.org "Alan Whimp" wrote in message ... I bought an HP Pavilion DV7-3020sa a week ago which has 2 HDD areas but only 1 HDD fitted. I have bought an identical HDD to the one already installed to fit into the 2nd drive slot but cannot find anywhere where I can buy the lead to connect it to the mainboard. Having now tried over 15 companies, including HP, I am becoming frustrated. Does anyone know where the lead can be purchased? It is a SATA socket on one end and a very very small plug on the other and is only around one inch long. (Please note that it does not connect directly to the mainboard in the usual clip-in method, it does have a small cable!) PLEASE HELP!!!!! |
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