Recent content by styl_impulse

Perfect, thankyou so much for your help, was starting to lose hope till I found this forum 😂. Much appreciated.

Thanks, powered up after replacing the cables, the HDD is still unplugged and it successfully booted up! When you state to later reconnect the hard drive how long would you say till I reconnect it? Or does it not matter as much.

Just to clarify, where you state to clarify the BIOS boot order, does this refer to where you press DEL on the start-up screen and the devices are in order? If so does the SSD need to be first? Or another device.

Ahh I see, okay, those instructions seem much clearer than any tutorial / guide I've come across. I'll make sure to give this a try in the next hour and I'll get back to you, thanks again.

Thanks for the reply! The SSD I purchased was titled exactly Crucial MX500 CT500MX500SSD1(Z) 500 GB (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD). Whilst my motherboard is an MSI A320M Pro-E.

(Disclaimer - I know the bare minimal about PCs) So, I've basically purchased a 500GB Crucial SSD card which I have successfully installed into my PC, my PC does pick up that it is installed, however I'm struggling to understand how to make the SSD the boot drive. I understand how to enter the...