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    Samsung 840 Pro (in caddy) not getting detected in BIOS

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by justjags, Oct 15, 2013.

  1. justjags

    justjags Newbie

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    The caddy works fine. Because the SSD (in caddy) is working fine in my old laptop. But since that that old laptop is on SATA-2, the SSD's seq read/write is ~250MB.

    So I wanted to try out caddy in my new laptop (toshiba, core i5). The caddy fits well (I even opened up the back cover to make sure that caddy's port fits into laptop's port). But the BIOS is not showing up the drive in ODD. All I get is ODD: none!

    Is there a compatibility issue with caddy? Or maybe my new laptop's motherboard does not support disk drives in place of optical drives.
     
    justjags, Oct 15, 2013
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  2. WhatsThePoint

    WhatsThePoint Notebook Virtuoso

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    SSD have latest firmware and notebook have newest bios?

    Could be the Toshiba bios is the issue and not the caddy or SSD.

    Have you tried putting a different SSD or HDD in the caddy to see if it's recognized?

    How about on a reboot,not a cold boot?

    If you boot from a different internal drive in a SATA 3 slot how does the drive in the caddy show up in device manager/
     
    WhatsThePoint, Oct 15, 2013
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