SATA port 2 installed, can't be seen in boot order

Marius_7

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My motherboard Samsung NP-S3520 i got messed up fixing of my laptop and during that i lost my hard drive in port one position with cable to connect it.(don't ask...) So now i have only my part two that is my port two as in cd-rom position made as my second part for hdd.
I successfully installed my windows 7 in it, so assuming i can't connect my hdd to port one is it possible to force my laptop to boot windows from sata port 2?
Boot- priority does not help changed in anyway i put sata hdd in first place but does not show my hdd name in there but it shows that it is installed at second port in system information tab
 
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Some motherboards are strange like that. You need a BIOS extender I think.
Get a USB stick (can be as small as you want) and install PLOP boot manager on it. Boot from the USB in the BIOS then, in PLOP, choose your hard drive in the second port.
Alternatively, get a USB stick and a copy of EasyBCD community edition. Go to BCD deployment and write it to the USB stick. It should then be bootable as above and detect your copy of Windows.

meaga1n

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Some motherboards are strange like that. You need a BIOS extender I think.
Get a USB stick (can be as small as you want) and install PLOP boot manager on it. Boot from the USB in the BIOS then, in PLOP, choose your hard drive in the second port.
Alternatively, get a USB stick and a copy of EasyBCD community edition. Go to BCD deployment and write it to the USB stick. It should then be bootable as above and detect your copy of Windows.
 
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