HDD Caddy as main drive

[dashsnow2292]

Hi. I have a sony vaio laptop lying around with its HDD cable broken. Unfortunately, I can't find the same HDD cable locally and shipping one to my home is out of the options. I checked the laptop's specs and found out that it has a 9.5mm dvd drive. Luckily, I found a local store selling 9.5mm HDD caddy's and I was wondering, is it possible to just have the HDD caddy (with an HDD installed of course) as my primary drive (to where I boot Windows) without an HDD attached to the orignal compartment of the laptop? Just to clarify things, I would be just be using one HDD which is the one attached to the HDD caddy.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks! 😀

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey there dashsnow2292. Basically you should have no problem using the HDD in the caddy as a primary drive. It doesn't matter if you've connected another one in the HDD slot, or if the one in the caddy is the only HDD in the laptop.
So you're good to go.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[dashsnow2292]

Hey there dashsnow2292. Basically you should have no problem using the HDD in the caddy as a primary drive. It doesn't matter if you've connected another one in the HDD slot, or if the one in the caddy is the only HDD in the laptop.
So you're good to go.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

Would there be no problems when it comes to booting an OS (Specifically windows 7) in the HDD in the caddy? I just want to make sure that when I buy one, everything would be smooth.

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Well you shouldn't have any issues with that. Sometimes people even use the HDD in the caddy with a second OS.
Basically it's just like in a tower PC. It doesn't matter which SATA connection you're going to use for the optical drive or the HDD. When you connect the drive and the caddy, it should be recognized like a normal HDD.

 

[dashsnow2292]

Alright. If ever I do have problems, I'll post it here for future reference. Thank you very much!