Problem with new SSD

[96jonetxauri]

Hi everyone and thank you in advance.

First of all I want to apologize for my english, as it's not my mother-tongue.

The issue is, I've recently bought a SSD for my laptop (Acer Aspire E15), but it is not working as it should.

The capacity of the SSD is 120GB, which is really low, so i wanted to mantain the 1Tb HDD which i had in this laptop before. For this, I bought a HDD Caddy ( https://goo.gl/k8M3UW ), but the PC acts really weird with it:

- If the old HDD is in the HDD lot, the PC works as normal and the SSD appears as a storage unit, but it doesn't boot from the SSD (which is in the caddy) (obviously I want the pc to boot from SSD) (also the BIOS doesn't show it).
- If the SSD is in the HDD lot it boots from the SSD, but the PC doesn't recognize the HDD in the caddy lot (SSD appears in BIOS, and HDD no).
- If the SSD is in the caddy, and the HDD lot is empty, it boots from the SSD and it works fine.

I used Samsung Software to migrate the OS from HDD to SSD, but it stil remains in the HDD (i’m afraid to lose the OS; i wold like to format the HDD once it works fine). I’ve tried booting UEFI and also LEGACY mode, and I dont know what else to try. In all cases I edited the boot-order so the SSD was always the first.

If any of you could help me I would really apreciate it.
Thank you,

 

[mdd1963]

you cannot normally run an OS from a USB-connected drive...(excluding the Live-CD type distros that function fine, of course...)

If you migrate the software over to the SSD, then remove the conventional HDD, and set the BIOS to boot from the Samsung installed/connected in the standard SATA slot, and it should then function normally...

YOu can then reinstall the conventional drive, and, if happy the SSD is fine, format the HDD so it can be used as conventional bulk /secondary storage....