Laptop Sata Connector defective (hard drive)?

I bought an HP Elitebook for 30 euro.

The HDD seems to have been torn out at the bottom.

Then I bent the pins apart, installed RAM and started with Ultimate Boot CD (USB).

Everything worked.

So I thought to myself I solder the hard drive to.

But that was too risky for me to cause any short circuits.

I just had the idea to swap a hard drive caddy with the CD drive.

Is the?

It looks like there's still a "Mini PCI-E" slot above the WLAN card. There are adapters or direct Mini PCI-E SSDs for this.

A hard drive caddy should also work

Okay supi. The thing has a really awesome trackpad.