I'll try and be as detailed as I can here.
I just bought a Samsung 840 EVO SSD, plugged it into the 1st position sata port, booted into my optical drive and then installed windows 7 onto my SSD.
A few problems. Whenever I go into BIOS and look at boot priority, only my old HDD and optical drive are visible, UNLESS I go into the drive manager (where both the HDD and SSD are present) and change 1st drive from the HDD to the SSD which then puts the HDD in drive 2 position. Going back into boot priority, the SSD is available however the HDD is not. After setting the SSD as priority, I boot the computer which leads to a screen prompting:
Select an operating system to load into:
It then gives me the option between 2 Windows 7 options. When I select one of them, it boots to my HDD, when I boot the other it boots from my SSD.
Booting into my HDD is normal and same as usual
However Booting into the SSD gives me a clean version of windows without any of my files and preferences visible on it (Which was expected). However, I am unable to do much of anything. My wireless USB adapter is not detected and I am unable to access internet. Also, when look at device manager, my graphics card is not detected even when prompting to search for change in hardware.
So basically 2 things: How do I get it to stop prompting me to choose between Windows 7 HDD and Windows 7 SSD boot, and
How am I able to get it to detect devices and hardware once booted to SSD?
Sorry for the long write up but I wanted to be thorough and as descriptive as possible.
I just bought a Samsung 840 EVO SSD, plugged it into the 1st position sata port, booted into my optical drive and then installed windows 7 onto my SSD.
A few problems. Whenever I go into BIOS and look at boot priority, only my old HDD and optical drive are visible, UNLESS I go into the drive manager (where both the HDD and SSD are present) and change 1st drive from the HDD to the SSD which then puts the HDD in drive 2 position. Going back into boot priority, the SSD is available however the HDD is not. After setting the SSD as priority, I boot the computer which leads to a screen prompting:
Select an operating system to load into:
It then gives me the option between 2 Windows 7 options. When I select one of them, it boots to my HDD, when I boot the other it boots from my SSD.
Booting into my HDD is normal and same as usual
However Booting into the SSD gives me a clean version of windows without any of my files and preferences visible on it (Which was expected). However, I am unable to do much of anything. My wireless USB adapter is not detected and I am unable to access internet. Also, when look at device manager, my graphics card is not detected even when prompting to search for change in hardware.
So basically 2 things: How do I get it to stop prompting me to choose between Windows 7 HDD and Windows 7 SSD boot, and
How am I able to get it to detect devices and hardware once booted to SSD?
Sorry for the long write up but I wanted to be thorough and as descriptive as possible.
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