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PeterK222

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Yesterday I fitted a new 120GB SSD and followed all the procedures for cloning my old drive and this worked successfully. When I rebooted the system and went into system set up, I was able to pick the new SSD up and boot from there.
Today, however when I started the PC it has reverted back to my old Hard drive to boot up.
When I again restarted and went into the BIOS section to see the priority settings, the new SSD is not shown ??
I have attached a couple of pictures to show before and after.
Any help would be much appreciated.start up.jpg

start up1.jpg
 
Those images are too small to read. Can you host them on imageshack or photobucket or something like that?
 
I could if I knew how, but basically all that it is showing is that after booting up from the new SSD, it was showing that as 'Boot Drive, Page file, primary partition' and had changed the drive letter to 'C'.
When I booted up this morning, it had changed the old Hard Disk back to the Boot drive etc and changed its drive letter back to 'C'
 
All you do is create accounts at one of those websites and upload the photo to it and give us the link to it. Does the bios detect the ssd drive? Check the bios to make sure boot order for hdd is set for ssd first.
 
I think that was what I was trying to say in my original post, when I rebooted the system after installing the SSD, then F12 (on my PC) it showed a list of bootable options of which the SSD was one of them. Hit the new SSD and the PC booted up very quickly. So yes the PC is recognising the new SSD.
Today when I just turned the machine on it defaulted back to my original HD, so I checked the priority order in the BIOS and the new SSD is not showing up in any of the 3 options, Priority 1 -2 - 3, but it does allow me to boot up from the SSD if I select it from the list of possibilities.
 
Sure you don't have boot options and boot priority mixed up? Boot options just sets the boot drive for that one boot, on the next boot it goes back to what is set as your main boot drive under boot priority.
 
Yeah, you need to go into the HDD priority settings in the BIOS and move the SSD to the top of the list.
 
When I installed the SSD (yesterday), I rebooted the system then pressed F12 (boot menu). I was then presented with 4 options - option 1 CDDVDRW or something like, option 2 Old Hard Drive, option 3 Kingston SSD, option 4 E Drive which is an external HD.
I pressed option 3 and the PC fired up very quickly which is what I was expecting.
Today when I switched the PC on, it took a lot longer to start up, so I restarted the PC and pressed F12 again and at the bottom of the 4 options above is an option to enter the boot menu, which is what I did. This gives a list of options like M.I.T, System, BIOS features etc. I went into the BIOS features and that shows 3 options for device boot order, which I presumed that I am supposed to change to set the Kingston SSD as number 1 priority.
It is in here that I cannot see the Kingston SSD as an option. I can see all the other 3 as options but not the new SSD. Priority 1 is set to my old Hard drive.
 
Do you have the ssd plugged into the blue sata ports or the white ones? The white ones are a different chipset.
 
I just took out the sata cable for the existing HD and swapped that over with the new SSD and when I came to look again at the Boot priority I could now see the new Kingston SSD whereas before it didn't show up. Bit of luck I suppose, but at least my PC is booting from the SSD everytime now, and I have my old HD for storage.
SSD now set as boot priority 1
Thanks for your help guys.
 
My guess is that you need to have both ssd and hdd on sata ports 0 and 1 which would be the top 2 sata ports going up and down and put the dvd drive on one of the bottom ports numbered 2-3 going sideways.
 
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