SSD nor ANY Drive Showing In Boot Options with a caveat

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tazmo8448

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Recently have put an SSD in an 'older' HP (key word there so keep that in mind) notebook....aka laptop. What has happened is when installing the OS (using the OEM disks plus some .ISO's I've kept) upon booting back to the desktop (if that is the right terminology) I find that the BIOS is not now listing the OS Drive as an option..only the CD/DVD or any USB I place in a port.
Again keep in mind this is an HP laptop with very few options in BIOS...there is no 'disable Secure Boot' there is no IDE selections between Raid-IDE-AHCI...it has a VERY limited selection. I have an Asus based desktop and know those options using that machine but HP in their 'wisdom' have eliminated that sort of thing in this and another desktop I have an that was one of the big reasons I stopped using their products. As a retired Land Surveyor they (HP) at one time where the 'gold standard' in surveying hand held mini-computers but those days have long been gone.
 
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'Enable CSM' = UEFI or in this case only legacy BIOS. SSDs wil also work in IDE mode but without AHCI, trim is going to be disabled and without it performance is going to suffer after a while. One way to get it back is to make a full backup with Macrium Reflect and restore it every few months.
 
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One thing about HP and BIOS settings of 2008 to 2014 they were VERY limited on the 'selections' they offered....speaking about Laptop BIOS settings...the desktop versions had just a tad more 'options'....I say this because I did a bare bones build of a desktop using an Asus FX99 mobo and realize that HP was woefully short on what one can and CAN NOT do...it's like they try to 'idiot proof' the thing.

Any way...getting back to the question..I found that this laptop a dv7-4177nr model had two hard drive bays and was using both...when I decided to go with SSD's I unwittingly used the 'secondary' bay therefore the BIOS couldn't 'see' it for some reason...being use to desktops that most have no preference to which sata port you use (most of the time and yes I know 0 is preferred) it didn't dawn on me that the 'Primary' bay (the one closest to the CMOS battery) was essential.

So....consider this 'solved'....just a reminder to those HP craptop users...if you go with one drive on a new OS install that has 2 bays ...MAKE SURE YOU SELECT THE PRIMARY BAY.....usually the one nearest the CMOS battery.
 
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thanks for that tip...I did install the new OS in UEFI mode that reflects an AHCI set up...and I like an use Macrium Reflect...in this case the new owner wanted a fresh install (can't blame him there) along with a macrium
image of the 'pristine' install and one with all the Windows updates finished....I as stated in another post realized I was using the wrong bay for the hard drive and now have it up an running an 'all good'...I have Macrium set up on an external hard drive to be on the safe side and not on the OS drive...along with the WinPE bootable USB.....
again thanks for your tip......
cheers...
Sam
 
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