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    Question about second hard drive bay on dv9000 series notebooks.

    Discussion in 'HP' started by gmm22, Apr 6, 2007.

  1. gmm22

    gmm22 Notebook Consultant

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    I would like to buy a second hard drive for this notebook. Is it possible to only activate the second hard drive when storing information? I would not want the extra noise of a second hard drive running constantly.
     
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  2. vassil_98

    vassil_98 Notebook Deity

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    I think there's an option in the BIOS but that's it. From Windows you can set the HDD to turn off when not used but I haven't seen separate power managements for two HDDs.
     
    vassil_98, Apr 6, 2007
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