New G73JW-A1 & SSD Problem

Just purchased the new G73JW-A1 replacing my 2yr old M70Vm which I enjoyed but was underpowered on video. My reason for this posting is to see if I can get some ideas from other members as to why this unit doesn't like my Corsair P256 SSD. The SSD came out of the M70 and works perfectly. However, when installed in the G73, the pc will not boot from either the hard drive or a CD/DVD (screen freezes with a cursor in the upper left corner). My gut feeling is a BIOS issue, but someone may know something else.
More info:
- The BIOS does report the drive properly & using the ESC during bootup shows the drive as an option.
- This happens whether the drive is primary (single or dual) or secondary.
- Call to ASUS tech spt didn't help - in fact I got the feeling the unit was too new and they didn't have much info on it yet.

For those of you that have responded thank you. I tried not to be wordy on my original post, but i see that led to some confusion, so let me add.

First believe it or not you can move Windows7 drives between computers & if Windows7 can load the new hardware drivers you'll go though a couple of reboot but it will eventually work.

However, my point about this drive coming from my other notebook was to make the point that the drive is NOT defective.
After i removed it from the other system, I flushed it with a "secure erase" (resets drive to factory defaults) before putting it into the new computer. But again, even though the BIOS correctly identifies the drive, the computer will NOT boot from the DVD/CD when this drive is installed. Right now I have Windows7 fully functional on one of the 500gb drives that came with the computer. If i replace the secondary 500gb HD with the SSD this computer will NOT boot.
My question is has anyone else ran into this situation using a SSD on their computer?

 

So you put the new SSD into the machine and installed Windows 7 from a disc you had already at which point after the install all you end up with is a cursor on screen ?...

You left out some details so i am just making assumptions at this point .

 

No it sounds like he removed the drive from the old system and stuck it in the new system. With it physically installed the system will not boot from any device; original hard drive, DVD drive, or SSD. It sounds like he never gets to the point of trying to actually get the SSD working. I've never owned on so I have no clue as to how or why just physically installing this particular SSD would break the ability to boot at all form any other bootable device.

Cheers,

Cheers,

 

Yeah im not sure what steps he took inbetween yanking it from one system and putting it in the other..

If the BIOS recognizes the drive then a fresh Windows install will as well... You cant just take a drive from another computer and stick it into a new machine expecting it to work .. Old system might have been running in IDE mode in the BIOS which Windows would not know what to do other then either Bluescreen or the blinking cursor..

 

True, it's not a Mac after all , however, regardless of how it was installed on the old system, just connecting it to the SATA connector on the new system really shouldn't prevent the standard hard drive from booting. The SSD should show up as a NTFS drive D or F or whatever. The only time I used to see this problem was with SCSI termination issues and IDE master/slave mis-match neither of which really apply here.

Fresh install will not be possible if he can't boot from DVD with the SSD connected.

Cheers,

 

Make a backup image, and then wipe it clean. You may be encountering some DRM protection not allowing a transfer and/or bootup.