I have a P8B75-M LX MB. I already have a sata6G drive, wanted to add a 6g SSD. Unfortunately only 1 6g port. Anyway it seemed from what I read, I could plug it into one of the sata3g ports (using a 6g cable - pins should be the same?) - but then the pc won't boot. unplug it and boots fine. I tried a couple different 3g ports, no change. What don't I know please?
Trying to add 2nd drive:
- Thread starter ognik777
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The SSD should be using the faster SATA III header. The mechanical HDD can't even saturate the SATA II interface.
You have to enter BIOS and set the SSD as the first drive. Then it will show up in the boot order and you can set it as the boot drive. After that, the PC will look to the SSD as the drive to boot from.
You have to enter BIOS and set the SSD as the first drive. Then it will show up in the boot order and you can set it as the boot drive. After that, the PC will look to the SSD as the drive to boot from.
I was going to swap them later - I intend to use the SSD first to upgrade to win10 (the 1st time I upgraded win10 got into an endless auto-repair loop, wouldn't let me revert and I ended up rebuilding the PC!).
So my plan was: format the SSD while still the 2nd drive. Load win 7 onto it & make it a dual boot pc temporarily. Upgrade to win10 from the ssd. If all OK, make the ssd the 1st & boot drive, copy data off the old drive & reformat it..
But with the ssd connected, I don't get the bios loading - unless you mean somehow tell the bios about the SSD before I connect it?
Ta
So my plan was: format the SSD while still the 2nd drive. Load win 7 onto it & make it a dual boot pc temporarily. Upgrade to win10 from the ssd. If all OK, make the ssd the 1st & boot drive, copy data off the old drive & reformat it..
But with the ssd connected, I don't get the bios loading - unless you mean somehow tell the bios about the SSD before I connect it?
Ta
- Oct 6, 2014
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For the best performance yes the 6GB port but their not a lot of difference in using a 3GB port and their no reason for it not to work.
Unplug your regular hard drive and plug the SSD into the 6GB port and see if it will let you get to BIOS.
Unplug your regular hard drive and plug the SSD into the 6GB port and see if it will let you get to BIOS.
I didn't expect that, but with just the ssd plugged in it got into the bios OK.
So I plugged in the old drive as the 2nd drive and got excited when it allowed me to by pass the ssd when booting, and went on to load windows - except windows then froze unrecoverably.
Undaunted I unplugged the ssd, plugged the old drive back in - and have been fighting windows auto recovery ever since - even though nothing had been changed on either of the disks (good ol' Microsloppy).
After ~2 hours I finally am back in windows off the old drive.
We have shown that this will work with the SSD as #1 (probably a MB constraint?) BUT I am obviously wary now, and all advice on how to get me SAFELY to having win10 booting off the SSD will be sincerely welcomed.
So I plugged in the old drive as the 2nd drive and got excited when it allowed me to by pass the ssd when booting, and went on to load windows - except windows then froze unrecoverably.
Undaunted I unplugged the ssd, plugged the old drive back in - and have been fighting windows auto recovery ever since - even though nothing had been changed on either of the disks (good ol' Microsloppy).
After ~2 hours I finally am back in windows off the old drive.
We have shown that this will work with the SSD as #1 (probably a MB constraint?) BUT I am obviously wary now, and all advice on how to get me SAFELY to having win10 booting off the SSD will be sincerely welcomed.
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