SSD instead of DVD-ROM in HP HDX16 laptop

Question

Hard disks

Hello!

I had an idea to install a second disk instead of a BlueRay drive in my HP HDX16-1040ER laptop, more precisely, an SSD. I have never done anything like this before, so there is a set of (stupid?) questions:

1) Do SSDs need drivers? Is it true that if there are no such drivers (and there are none on the HP website), then the laptop will not see the SSD?

2) The connector through which the BlueRay drive is connected is different from the connector through which the hard disk is connected. The system information refers to the drive as HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CT10L ATA Device. Do you have any idea what this connector can be and have you ever met an adapter from it to a regular SATA?

3) I found that cradles are sold for MacBooks on ebay, which allow you to connect a second hard drive instead of SuperDrive. Have you seen the same cradles for other laptops? Are they interchangeable?

4) Assuming that this venture succeeds, is it possible to easily transfer the system from HDD to SSD without reinstalling it?

Thank you!

Answer 1

1) Drivers are not needed
2) The connector may differ if the blue ray is a stalemate, but it is unlikely that it is a stalemate, I advise you to pull it out and take a look.
3) most likely you will need some kind of adapter / plug, because the drive is large and has a front panel
4) stupidly copying the partition with some thread should work. but I don't know how she will behave there

Answer 2

I will answer only the 4th question. How I usually transfer partitions with the system:
1) download Ubuntu and put it on a USB flash drive
2) boot from a USB flash drive
3) load Gparted (you can also use dd through the console, but it’s more familiar through a graphical interface)
4) copy / paste the desired section
5) after copying, set the boot flag on the new system partition
6) delete the old partition
7) load Windows
8) Windows makes a checkdisk
9) I
do not advise proffit ps through Acronis. There were glitches and more than once when transferring the system.

Answer 3

Optical bay caddy - are they interchangeable? Or do you need to look for a specific laptop?

Answer 4

4) I transferred Win 7 with acronis disk director. I connected both hard drives to the desktop and transferred. Acronis compressed the partition so that I was able to transfer data from a 320 GB drive to a 120 GB one. Squeezed - in the sense that there were 90 gigs of data, but the partition size was 320. Akronis somehow scaled the whole thing and everything started the first time.
For Macs, restoring from a backup is easier and faster and more reliable. I had a problem that Acronis did not understand HFS + (maybe the version was old, I'm not sure), so I just restored it from a backup to a clean OS