Second hard drive for 8200?

I am considering buying a 8200 and I have a question about using a hard drive in the media bay.

I have seen references to batteries or different optical drives in the Acer notebooks, but I can't find any reference to whether a second hard drive can be added. If so, what kind? SATA or regular IDE? How does the hard drive go in there? Where does one get the adapter (or whatever is needed)?

Also, in another thread I read that the 8200 BIOS had very little settings. I wonder if it allows for the second HD to be bootable.

In the same vein, is the media reader bootable? If I put a microdrive in there could I boot from it?

thanks
Argun

 

Hi

I've had my 8200 for a few weeks now. I have not heard about this myself but i suppose if you removed the DVD drive you could find a hard drive that would go into the bay. I would just use an external USB or Firewire drive. I am indeed looking into this. Cheaper too i would suspect, while still allowing me to have the DVD writer which i need at the same time.

As for BIOS boot options it seems quite flexible. These options are easily accessable through one of the ACER apps installed on the system; eSettings management. For boot options it allows any order of the following:
1st HDD
2nd HDD
CD-ROM/DVD Drive
Network Boot
USB HDD
USB CD ROM
USB Floppy
USB Key

 

Thanks yellow11,

So, according to the bios, a 2nd HDD is a possibility.
Just need to find out how then.

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