Need help, cannot boot to ssd.

[smashman12]

Just put in a evo, have 7 installed, all was well, put my HDD into bay two. Booted into 8... Expected, changed boot order, thought I did in bios. Had Samsung 850... In boot option 1. Still boots to my HDD. Any help would be awesome

 

[ronintexas]

If you want to do a dual-boot with Windows 7 & 8, you need to have the operational Windows 7 (HDD boot), then add the SSD and install like a dual boot (see http://www.extremetech.com/computing/143380-how-to-dual-boot-windows-8-and-windows-7). Instead of resizing the hard drive partition, you just install to the SSD.

 

[smashman12]

OK so your saying I need to install win 7 to my HDD as well? Then I will be able to boot from my ssd afterward. Any bios adjustments needed?

 

[smashman12]

Right now I'm looking at disk management, it has my c: as boot, page file, crash dump, primary partition. C: is my hdd, with win8. My g: is ssd with win 7 that only has primary partition, I am assuming I need to add boot to the list. How do I accomplish that?