Packard bell install hard drive

It has the same pins SATA connector as your optical drive. This makes HDD Caddy a great fix if you want to keep your laptop mobile and you dao not want to carry external USB hard drives or sticks anymore. HDD Caddy supports 2. It is also possible to boot from the secondary hard drive in the HDD Caddy.

This allows you to easily have a multi-OS boot on your laptop. Read more about what HDD Caddy is. Your email address will not be published. If those work fine you should be able to install other OS's after those without problems :.

Was this reply helpful? Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. Can anyone offer me any help? Thank you in advance if you can. You will need to either flash it or to get a special program to be able to use it.

Western Digital provides such a program, but I don't remember the name. Sep 2, 0 0. Vboy is correct The software he is referring to is ontrack's dymanic disk overlay. SnowPunk98 Banned. Jun 15, 4, 0 0. Jiggz Diamond Member. Mar 10, 4, 0 In this case, you will have to use an overlay software which basically allows you to use a hdd larger than mb. Check with the hdd manufacturer's homepage on what kind of overlay software they use. Dan Diamond Member. Oct 9, 5, 0 0. SillyMan: Do you have your original PB install disk?

Assuming you get the system to recognize the new drive, you'll need to run the PB install disk. You must log in or register to reply here. Once you have the details you can search the Packard Bell website for your drivers and, if available, download and install these drivers. If you are unsure of whether or not you need to update your Drivers, or indeed which Drivers may need to be updated, you can run a Drivers scan using a driver update tool you will need to pay to register this tool but usually the Drivers scan is free.

This will allow you to assess your Driver needs without any commitment. Alternatively, you can use the device manager to check if there are problems with any of your hardware devices. In many cases the answer to this is yes, however in some cases the manufacturers no longer make the Drivers available so you need to use a Driver Update Tool to install the missing Drivers. The purpose of such as tool is to save you time and effort by automatically downloading and updating the Drivers for you.

Installation Instructions: 1. Follow on-screen Instructions. Once you have downloaded the Driver Installer, launch the program usually the icon will be saved to the Desktop or My Programs.