- Jul 17, 2012
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Hi guys! I have a laptop (asus g46vw) and recently purchased a crucial ssd 512 gb that with soon replace the 5200 rpm hdd. I went into disk management in windows 8 and a poppup came on the screen to initalize the drive. However, I did not initialize it atleast i dont think i did if that is even possible. Right away i used AOMEI backupper to do a system migration from my hdd partition with the os and all data to my ssd. It does fit. The clone was successful but now i dont see the drive in bios. Did i need to initialize as mbr. If so can i format the drive and initialize it again? Or did i need to make the drive bootable somehow? Also ( a bit of info) the drive is not actually in my laptop yet as i can only have one at a time. Right now i am running on the old drive and wanted to see if i can boot with a sata to usb adapter and shell that the ssd is sitting in. I can see the drive on my computer tab in windows but not in the bios. Thanks!
Edit: here is an image of my computer management (disk management) display the ssd is disk 1 http://gyazo.com/89ed15ee26481e9b7480c134f427faeb
Also could i possibly need to have the ssd alone.
Edit: I formated the drive and deleted the volume and now i looked in properties and it is mbr.
im gonna clone the system again but will the bios not recognise it again?
Edit: here is an image of my computer management (disk management) display the ssd is disk 1 http://gyazo.com/89ed15ee26481e9b7480c134f427faeb
Also could i possibly need to have the ssd alone.
Edit: I formated the drive and deleted the volume and now i looked in properties and it is mbr.
im gonna clone the system again but will the bios not recognise it again?
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