Toshiba Qosmio x770 - there is no SATA connector in the 2nd drive bay.

I called Toshiba tech support and spoke with shekinah in the phillipines about this issue.  She told me the same thing 5 times over and over in the span of the 2 hour call. I asked to talk to her supervisor or the "lead tech" she kept talking about.  She flat out refused.  She kept telling me that I just need to plug in a 2nd hard drive.  I explained again that this is impossible as there is no cable of any kind or an sata connector.  With the x505 version you needed to purchase a seperate 2nd hard drive cage but the sata connector was there. There is a picture attached that shows what I mean.  I looks like the part is a tiny laptop ribbon cable that would connect above the primary hard drive and then terminate at an sata connector that you screw down right before the primary hard drive.  Looks like there might be some sort of hard drive cage required for it too.
Is there a way to purchase just the ribbon cable and sata adapter so I can add my own 2nd hard drive???
I would be willing to buy a 2nd hard drive with an included cable/sata adapter if it's not insanley expensive.  I would obviously rather not do this.
There is no email that I can find for toshiba tech support and the phillipens call center is not worth calling.
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You might find some help by reading the following:
Go to "Toshiba Forums" and scroll down to "Satellite Laptops::all others" open it and find the "Subject", "Second internal Hard drive P775----" with 1040+ Views (Note there are two listings on this subject). It should make for interesting reading.
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