How to install a hard drive where the DVD drive on hp-pavilion-15-n200-notebook

[KhaledKaram08]

How to install a hard drive where the DVD drive on hp-pavilion-15-n200-notebook?

[WAWood]

@KhaledKaram08 

Personally, I recommend against doing that -- and here is why.

Laptops that come with an HDD and an optical drive are hard-wired to boot from the optical drive first.  That is to allow you to boot from CD or DVD without having to manually change the boot order.  That is generally not changeable.

If you replace the optical drive with an HDD, the PC will still boot from it -- and since that drive is blank, you will then NOT be able to boot into Windows anymore.

These PCs are not designed to have the optical drives replaced with disk drives.

[KhaledKaram08]

I got it, but I'll formate the HDD and setup new windows at a new SSD.
I'll use the HDD for storage and the SSD for boot.
Did you mean I can't boot from the SSD or what ?

[WAWood]

@KhaledKaram08 

No -- I mean that whatever device you connect to the former DVD connector cable will automatically be used as the boot device.  Most folks don't understand this, so when they connect a blank drive, they don't know why their PC does not boot anymore.

If you install Windows to it in a bootable mode, then when you connect it, your PC should then boot from it.

[KhaledKaram08]

I really appreciate your support, can you tell me the steps to replace the DVD drive with the old HDD and make SSD a bootable disk?

Thanks.

[Huffer]

I advise against this for a slightly different reason. On many models even a bootable hard drive or SSD in the optical bay will not boot. The BIOS is looking for an optical disk to boot from and the signature of a hard drive is different. Some newer models can boot from the optical bay with a hard drive or SSD, but yours is not one of them I am pretty sure. Also, the SATA interface for the optical drive is not equivalent to a SSD or hard drive SATA interface, and is often slower. But what you want to do can be done. It can be done several ways. The hard drive can be copied or cloned to the SSD or you can do a clean install onto the SSD. In either case, you want to first remove the existing drive and install the SSD. Have you purchased an optical bay adapter/caddy to replace the DVD drive? You need one of those. Have you purchased an SSD? I do not really recommend trying to do this as a first computer tech experiment it's going to take some skills.