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    CF-53 MK1 2nd HDD

    Discussion in 'Panasonic' started by kingstu, Feb 13, 2015.

  1. kingstu

    kingstu Notebook Consultant

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    I've replaced my DVD drive on my CF-53 MK1 with a SSD and it seems I can only boot from that drive when the regular drive caddy is removed. Has anyone had any luck with the boot options to allow for booting from the media bay HDD prior to the HDD? Is a BIOS hacked needed or is it just not possible?
     
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    Well I went the other way. I go myself a spare SSD / caddy with Windows 7 32bit. The one I use all the time is Windows 7 64bit 16GB memory and it works great.
     
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  3. kingstu

    kingstu Notebook Consultant

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    I have a spare caddy also. The benefit of using the DVD drive as a spare HDD is you can put a 2TB drive there and use it for saving documents and movies and if you use that location as your "my documents" location for windows, when you switch out the hard drive in your caddy you still have access to the documents no matter which caddy you use.
     
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    perhaps something like grub for linux as a bootloader?
     
    Shawn, Feb 14, 2015
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