co2shaun Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Anyone have any experience with adding a 2nd hard drive in a laptop's optical disk drive bay? There are several adapter out there for this. I'm thinking of using one harddrive for windows and the other one for a couple of different linux distros. I know I could set it all up on one hard drive but I really don't want to partition my main drive. I'm just wondering if anyone has went this route. Also could i get it set up so that windows only turns on the windows drive and linux only turns on the linux drive so that I don't have two drives taking battery power? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr-Protocol Posted September 10, 2011 Share Posted September 10, 2011 Use USB external drives for linux? And enable USB boot in BIOS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Infiltrator Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 Most laptops use SATA connectors, also when installing a new HDD make sure its a 2.5-inch mobile hard drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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