Laptop says there's no OS installed, but there is.

[Gibsonlespaul123]

Hey everyone,

So I'll make this short: I have a laptop with an mSata slot and an HDD slot. In the mSata slot sits my SSD with windows and everything on it. When it's just the SSD, everything works fine and windows boots and I live happily ever after.

However, when I plug in my EMPTY, formatted HDD in the second slot it won't boot and says there's no OS! And when I go to boot order in the bios, both my HDD and SSD are not in the available options !

Please, could somebody tell me the solution to this?

Kind regards!

 

[captaincharisma]

the boot order is messed up. go into BIOS and change the boot order so the right drive will boot first

 

[Gibsonlespaul123]

the boot order is messed up. go into BIOS and change the boot order so the right drive will boot first

Thank you very much for the answer but like I said, there's no option for either the HDD or SSD in the boot menu.

 

[captaincharisma]

the boot order is messed up. go into BIOS and change the boot order so the right drive will boot first

Thank you very much for the answer but like I said, there's no option for either the HDD or SSD in the boot menu.

not sure what kind of option you are trying to find. the boot order will list the names of your drives so all you do is find the name your the drive you want to boot first in the list and move that up to be the first drive in the list. you set this by using the arrow keys to highlight the drive and then use the + and - keys to move the device up or down in the list

 

[Gibsonlespaul123]

the boot order is messed up. go into BIOS and change the boot order so the right drive will boot first

Thank you very much for the answer but like I said, there's no option for either the HDD or SSD in the boot menu.

not sure what kind of option you are trying to find. the boot order will list the names of your drives so all you do is find the name your the drive you want to boot first in the list and move that up to be the first drive in the list. you set this by using the arrow keys to highlight the drive and then use the + and - keys to move the device up or down in the list

Yes, but both the SSD and HDD are not listed as available boot options. They are however found by the BIOS itself, just not listed in the boot list. The only options there are:

- OS boot manager
- Internal CD/DVD Rom drive (which I don't even have)
- USB Diskette
- USB CD/DVD ROM drive (which I don't have)
- Network adapter.

Anybody?? I'm getting desperate.