Can I use SSD in place of CD Drive

[MnkyJack]

can i use ssd in place of cd drive in hp pavilion p027tx model?

[WAWood]

@MnkyJack 

Presuming the CD is a SATA drive, then yes, you could hook up a standard SATA SSD to that connector in place of the optical drive and use it.

But ... and this is important ... there is a catch.  In PCs that come with both an optical drive and HDD, the first is hard wired to be the boot drive.  You don't notice this because the drive is empty nearly all the time.  But when your PC starts, the boot loader looks in the optical drive for boot files.  Not finding them, it then goes to the HDD.

If you put a drive there, your PC will try to boot from it -- all the time!  So, you would have to basically "clone" the OS stuff from the HDD to the SDD so you PC will then boot.

Here is information on how to do that ...

1) Download and install Macrium Reflect (MR) from here: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree
2) Connect the new drive to the PC using a USB-to-SSD drive adapter (like the one illustrated below)
3) Follow the instructions in this link: http://knowledgebase.macrium.com/display/KNOW/Cloning+a+disk
4) Shutdown the PC when done
5) Swap the drives and reboot the PC.

NOTE: To do this easily, the SDD has to be the same capacity as the HDD.  IF you get an SDD that is a lot smaller, then before you do the cloning, you have to shrink the largest partition on the HDD (usually the OS partition), to the size such that it, and the other partitions, fit easily on the SSD.

You should boot from the new drive without any problems.

Typical USB-to-SSD adapter:

Good Luck