Best Buy HPs wont take 2nd HD

[tom]

I recently purchased an HP computer and none of
the HPs in the store take a second HD. Also, booting
from a USB port does not show up in the boot menu.
I looked at the bios and could not figure out how to
boot from a USB port. The computer I bought is
a a1730n.

I thought I could buy a computer where I could
run Linux without repartitioning the HD, but I guess not.

[Anthony]

Post by tom
I recently purchased an HP computer and none of
the HPs in the store take a second HD. Also, booting
from a USB port does not show up in the boot menu.
I looked at the bios and could not figure out how to
boot from a USB port. The computer I bought is
a a1730n.
I thought I could buy a computer where I could
run Linux without repartitioning the HD, but I guess not.

the new hard drive is it a IDE or SATA
USB external depending on the mb it may not have support for USB boot device
(rare) but usb boot device would say in bios USB-HDD, USB-CDROM, etc

Also in bios for IDE Primary make sure it set to both, IDE Secondary Set to
moth, and IDE Primary slave - Auto detect instead of none...