Adding second HDD to acer 7720G

Hi, new to this forum, sorry if this problem has been posted before (I couldn't find anything). When reviewing this machine I found that it had a second HDD drive bay which I thought would be helpful if I ever needed extra space, that time has come. I made the mistake of buying an identical toshiba drive to put in the second bay as when I opend the second drive bay, it was totally empty, no chasis, no connector, or any sign of where I could attach a connector to the motherboard. Why promote a second drive bay if it can't be used; or can it???????

Can it be done, can I get the parts to do it??

Greatful for any help, thanks

 

I only needed 4 screws when I added my second hard drive. I plugged it in right next to the first one, which is the only place it could go. I don't have the G model though. I don't know if they are different or not.

 

If there is no connector, then you cannot add a second hard drive. The bay is probably there because the chassis is probably used for several different models with more/less features.

-J.B.

 

Does your HDD module look like the one I am attaching?

 

Here is a better picture of the hard drive connector. You can see where the 2 hard drives attach to the one card and the single connector of the card then plugs into the connector in the drive bay.

 

Second bay is on opposite side of laptop to first one

 

Then I'm assuming you have a Travelmate. I have an Aspire 7720. I don't know anything about the Travelmate models. Sorry.

 

That's right, thanks for trying

 

Hi all been haveing a similar problem hope someone can help i have the acer 7720g with with all the connectors to add a second hard drive wicth i have done both drives are identical Hitachi 160 gb 5400rpm sata drives model numbers ending in SA00 ..... however when i turn on laptop the second drive cant be seen in my computer so i cant save to it ? altho in devise manager it is seen and reported as working normal if i update driver there it says im using latest driver any idea's anyone ????? .... is there a jumper to change or somert ? im missing

 

Go into disk managment in windows and check to see if it's there, it might be that you have to format/assign a drive letter to it for it to work.

Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Managment.