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For anyone with an HP 14-cm0xxx/14g-cx0xxx/14q-cy0xxx/14z-cg000 laptop (they use the same chassis) wishing to add a hard drive needs the hard drive cable and cover (Part nos. L23187-001 and L23219-001 respectively) as referenced in the maintenance guide :http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06245106 

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Hello, I was wondering if its possible to add or attach a SATA connection to my laptops motherboard, I am not sure what model it is but if you have any suggestions on how to find out, I will be willing to follow those tips and find out the model of the motherboard, My laptops motherboard has an NVME SSD already connected but on the bottom left side of the motherboard there is an open space for which a 2.5 inch drive can be added, however this space does not have any SATA connections around it so I am wondering if its possible to add SATA connections so I can connect another storage device, This is the model of the laptop: HP 14-cm0999na, Hope this helps

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This is the motherboard model: HP 84A2

This is the Motherboard Chipset: AMD CZ FCH
 

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A random picture from the internet to illustrate how the connection should look:

 

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Yes, I have a space like that but the SATA connectors are not there, I wanted to know If it is possible to add these SATA connectors

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Sure, you can solder a connector to your motherboard, you can get them on eBay or Aliexpress, but I'm not sure if the option for a second SSD is enabled in your bios. Before you void the crap out of your warranty, you can boot to the bios and search for settings that are about additional SATA connections. If you find some, chances are you can succesfully add an additional drive.

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Just now, fabafaba said:

Sure, you can solder a connector to your motherboard, you can get them on eBay or Aliexpress, but I'm not sure if the option for a second SSD is enabled in your bios. Before you void the crap out of your warranty, you can boot to the bios and search for settings that are about additional SATA connections. If you find some, chances are you can succesfully add an additional drive.

Thanks for your reply, are there any tutorials or stuff on how to do this and i've only built pc's and never soldered things on.

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1 hour ago, Adz1928 said:

Thanks for your reply, are there any tutorials or stuff on how to do this and i've only built pc's and never soldered things on.

Just search for it on youtube, I guess. It's propably a surface mount connector, so you'll propably find the best results when you search for "surface mount soldering".,

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1 hour ago, Adz1928 said:

Yes, I have a space like that but the SATA connectors are not there, I wanted to know If it is possible to add these SATA connectors

Could you show us a picture of what it is you see?

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29 minutes ago, imreloadin said:

Could you show us a picture of what it is you see?

This is what it looks like; http://prntscr.com/m1gj7l

as you can see on the bottom left there is an empty space but there's no SATA connections there

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For anyone with an HP 14-cm0xxx/14g-cx0xxx/14q-cy0xxx/14z-cg000 laptop (they use the same chassis) wishing to add a hard drive needs the hard drive cable and cover (Part nos. L23187-001 and L23219-001 respectively) as referenced in the maintenance guide :http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c06245106 

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