does it have a second bay for a second hard drive ? is it possible to install windows 7 ( with all the proper drivers ) ? regards
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it does infact have a bay for a second hard drive. you can even put a sata 3 ssd in there. as far as windows 7 goes, im not very sure.
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Yes! I have my old Acer Aspire 4736z's hard drive in the second bay and by switching the BIOS boot from UEFI to Legacy it instantly boots no issues. You'll have to download the drivers from Acers site however to get it to work with the new system. However it doesn't come with a second hard drive bay holder, but they offer them to buy for about 20 bucks I think. I haven't bothered to since my drive fits snugly in the ports anyway, but its a good idea to get one, esp if you move your laptop a lot.
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Yes, I yhinkYes, I believe it has two USB ports. But I sent mine back for a refund because I hated Windows 8.
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No it does not. However, Amazon does sell a dual bay like these that does. However, it is USB 2.0, eSata, IDE, not USB 3.0. That's important because even eSata 2 is as fast as the drives connected to it, but USB 2.0, is an incredible bottle neck. If that same unit had USB 3.0, I wouldn't have purchased this item. The way it works, is it has an IDE plug on the side of it, which connects to a USB cable and the drive, and thus it doesn't sit in the toaster like SATA drives do.
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With this kit I was able to install a 2nd hardrive in the lower drive bay kit. it's worth the price, on the ifixit site it was 70.00. Both drives are up and running and you should be able to do the install with instructions from ifixit. Good luck if you need more assistance contact me here on amazon
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well i can answer the first part of the question it has two drive one is main and the other is a back up 750gb for both hard drive, and for the second part idk i can answer it completely but ill give it a try, the hard drive is not original, it uses other hard drive from other brand to save price. i hope i answer your question. ( BY THE WAY IM USING THIS COMPUTER RIGHT NOW LOL!!!)
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Mine had windows 7 installed but it comes with the Disc to install Windows 8.1. You can install either system, but can't install them as a dual boot system. Either one or the other.
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Hi to the best of my knowledge an experience on a Windows platform it shows as 2 separate drives. On the Mac os it shows as 1 drive.
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That will depend on your OS and drive manufacturer. I'm using Win 7 and a Seagate drive so I had to partition my 3TB into 2 logical drives. Don't quite understand why but that's what Seagate said I had to do.
435957
No a Win 7 back-up disc was not included.I did not check if memory can be added because it's bigger than I'll ever use !
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Yes. I purchased this hard drive as replacement for a computer that already had Windows 7 (the hard drive died). Installed the operating system, drivers, etc. on the new hard drive and the computer is running fine.
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No u have to format.. partition.. and load Windows 7..if it's a new drive u have to do a fresh install..
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Hi&#65292;this system has no hard driver pre installed&#65292;you could choose the hdd 500GB or 1TB as you like. Thank you.
682537
Mine has one open drive bay. There are indeed 3, one for the system drive, one for the optical drive and one is open.
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Comes with Windows 8 installed although it will also support Windows 7. In fact I made mine a dual boot system that does both Windows 7 and 8.
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No. You have to replace the drive with a tray that holds the second hard drive.
2010151
Yes, you can either load Windows 8 on it or use it as a second drive in a Windows 8 system, as the drive uses standard device drivers. A more important issue is whether your motherboard will support getting the best speed out of the drive, and you'll have to see from the motherboard manual or the manufacturer whether it supports a solid state drive in the BIOS.
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1 HDD bay. you can swap out the cd drive for another tho. but that will cost you 10$ for a conversion kit online