Can I install a removeable drive bay in this so that I can boot from different drives (Win7, Win 8, Linux, etc.)?
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Yes, I have this pc and there are lots of open bays to install a SSD or HDD.
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Yes this can be used simultaneously. When you format it (on a Mac), just don't choose the Mac exclusive option. And yes you could even partition the drive to be bootable from Mac OS and a Windows OS if you wanted, or even a three way partition with one Linux.
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I was told by Samsung that Win 8 is burned into the Motherboard and you cannot, BUT!I was also told by a local PC maker that they do it all the time. When I get time, I am going to have it donehere locally. I have Win 7 loaded on a SSD drive ready to go. Check around your area for smart People thatbuild custom PC's and they should be able to do it for you at a minimal cost.
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You sure can, there is no need to format the drives before installing. I bought this to take my two drives from an old desktop that had died, each that had plenty of data, and had it up and running with my new laptop in no time at all with full access to all of the old data. I've now used this with both Windows XP and Windows 8 without any issues, and have since swapped in a new drive from another old desktop.
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Yes, all of the USB 3.0 and 2.0 ports work. You can boot from either of them.
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I boot from USB CD drives and from USB 'thumb' drives using either FreeDOS or LINUX. Works great.
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This is not an internal or external hard drive. It is an external casing. So it does not matter what the OS is as long as you have USB support, the enclosure should work.
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Yes, you can install any secure boot keys you like, and I believe the keys Intel ships the board with are already capable of booting Microsoft OSes.
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That should work just find. Remember that it is the OS that will or will not recognize the size of the drive(s), not the hardware in most cases. But motherboard BIOS might be questioned and looked into just to double check
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Keyboard is back-lit. 2 hard drives built in - one in screen section SS, other in keyboard section. Changing either HD would be a major chore, have to tear into whole unit as there is no access panel. Unsure of boot mode or if you can change OS... assuming bootloader since it goes right into Windows 8, no boot screen.
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Yes. It looks like you can put 2 drives in if you want. I suggest an SSD as your boot drive, and this one for storage.
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I dont know since I only tried one drive in non RAID mode but it will boot windows from the one drive
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It would have been helpful if you had described what you intend to do. Clone what, exactly, would be a good start. And do you have any extra hardware available, such as an unused HDD that could be used for temporary storage?
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Yes, that will work just fine. I added drives after I started everything to make the startup price not as bad.
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Sorry to say the answer is NO. The system will not boot from CD/DVD or USB drive so no way to install any other Operating System
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It's not an option with this version. You have to wipe the hard drive and install Windows 7 from scratch. So try and save your data off another drive or usb device.
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If you have a large enough USB jump drive you can make a install from it. Just make the USB drive bootable, i used Diskpart in windows 7. (only diskpart in vista and 7 supports USB devices) Once the USB drive is setup to be bootable just copy all the files from the windows install CD to the root of the USB drive. Reboot computer into bios and edit the boot order for USB device first. if everything worked it should prompt a install just like the windows install CD. Im not going to list the commands for diskpart just google for it. i hope this helps