can you remove a laptop dvd drive and replace with a msata
1 Yes it is possible to boot from mSATA with Windows 7 or 8. 2  You can also use a hard drive caddy and install a second hard drive in place of the CD/DVD drive. 3  You might need to use the bracket or faceplate of your existing optical drive.fter that you can install all heavy programs on your SSD and use your laptop with SSD as a boot drive and also have your 1TB disk as data disk. BUT: 1) you can not delete Windows on your standard hard drive. 2) windows will permanently read some data from your standard hard drive.