Learn something new every day. Thanks Richard.

Guess he'd have to contact HP for the appropriate cord. Wonder if the drive
is proprietary as well considering the connection type???

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"Richard G. Harper" wrote in message
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He probably is. I have a DV7 also and it does indeed have two drive bays.
Bay 1 is populated with the system hard drive, bay 2 has no drive but does
have both space for a drive and a motherboard-mounted connector for a
small combo power/SATA cable that appears to be HP specific.

"Rick Rogers" wrote in message
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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?