New DV7T-How to add extra hard drive? (Resolved)

Hello:
I figured this out. The hard drive cover was very hard to unlock and I didn't want to break it so I thought it was more complicated than it really is. The laptop is very well made and engineered.
Thanks!

si1960mon wrote:
My hard drive is nearly full and I'd like to add an extra hard drive but I'm not sure what to get. I can't locate where to connect the data cable to PC board. Any thoughts. Thanks.
Hi,
Specs: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01077654&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en...
There are only 2 SATA slots. One is for the hard drive and the other for an optical drive (DVD/CD-ROM..). There are also 2 PATA/IDE slots for PATA devices. There is also a PCIe x1 slot so you can use this slot to get this: http://www.span.com/product/SATA-3Gb-SATA2-PCIE1x21-PCI-Express-x1-Card-1x-SATA,-1x-5x-eSATA-support...
which is a PCIe x1 SATA card which gives you another SATA slot for a SATA device if the slot is still empty.
BTW: This section is for laptops.
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