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    Satellite P200. Install second hard drive?

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by latichever, Oct 14, 2010.

  1. latichever

    latichever Notebook Enthusiast

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    My satellite p200 has only a 60gb hard drive, so I purchased a 500gb replacement. But now I'm wondering how difficult it would be to install the new drive as a secondary internal drive.

    The manual says you can do this on "certain models" but is otherwise quite sketchy on this. There seems to be a secondary drive bay.

    Can anyone please confirm that I do have a secondary bay for a hard drive, and how difficult would this be? I'm assuming I would need a new caddy/cradle for the new drive. How difficult would it be to obtain that part?

    Any soldering, access to the motherboard required? I found another thread about another Toshiba model saying soldering, etc. would be required.

    Any info on my model appreciated.
     
    latichever, Oct 14, 2010
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  2. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    I don't think the P200 has the SATA connector for a 2nd drive. It has the room and the pins on the motherboard, but no SATA connector. You should pop the bottom anels off and check.
     
    Nick, Oct 16, 2010
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