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‎03-13-2015 01:57 PM

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Is it possible to use the same caddy which I have now, remove the optical drive from it and add a hdd into the same caddy ?

 

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‎03-13-2015 02:19 PM

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You mean take off the black piece adapter from ODD and put it in optical bay HDD caddy?

Yes you should be able to do that, Huffer had explained that. Do a search in net for appropriate caddy for your model.
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‎03-13-2015 03:46 PM - edited ‎03-13-2015 03:49 PM

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You cannot use the same caddy for a hard drive. The SATA connector for an optical drive is smaller than the SATA connector for a hard drive. As I said that black connector piece across the back of your caddy has a plug on the back side that goes into the mini-SATA on the back of an optical drive. The other side has those weird connector things. It comes off if you remove the screws holding it on.

 

An optical to HDD adapter has a mini-SATA like an optical drive on the outside and then a bay on the inside that has a hard drive sized adapter. Like this. 

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817997048&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KN...

 

Just take that black thing off the back of your optical drive caddy and place it across the back of this adapter linked above or one like it. 

 

If this is "the Answer" please click "Accept as Solution" to help others find it. 

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‎03-13-2015 04:02 PM

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That's what I exactly meant while replying. Glad that you clarified it.

The term caddy, adapter, ODD are little bit confused here though, for the readers. I think OP has understood the facts.
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‎03-13-2015 04:20 PM

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First of all really like to thank you all. Excellent forum you have for HP support.

 

I got the issue fixed.

 

Thought of posting a image of the same. There is actually three screws which hold the plastic interface with the hooks. Remove it one by one. Then you can see some thing like the first image in the below picture. Its a circuit. There is no screws to it. But it is pasted on to the caddy with some glue. Gently pull it out. Whola  !!! The SATA adapter is inside it, as you can see in the second image posted below.

 

Let it be useful for future people searching for the same 🙂

 

Thanks to all for your support once again 🙂

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‎03-13-2015 04:25 PM

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Good snaps, thank you for sharing them and providing little more details into it 🙂


Regards

Visruth

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