HP DM4 SATA question

I recently purchased a DM4-3099se and I am loving it. This past week I upgraded the RAM and installed a mSata SDD.

Upon intalling the mSATA, I learned that there was no mSata boot option in the Bios. So, after messing with it, I've decided to just install a SSD in place of the HDD.

Does anyone know if the DM4-3099se supports SATA III?

Thanks

 

Installed a SATA III SSD today and was only getting SATA II speeds so that answers my question...

 

Glad to find another person who also installed a SSD in this laptop. Perhaps you can help me solve a boot problem that I'm having.

The laptop does not always boot for me. Sometimes the screen remains blank other time there is a message to load the operating system on the hard drive. So I then boot into the boot menu (Power+F9) and select Notebook Hard Drive.

Like you mentioned there is no way to select the boot drive in the BIOS so it seems the laptop sometimes tries booting from Port 0 which is the mSSD.

Did you simply remove the mSSD from your laptop? Do you have the same problem that I'm having?

Thanks for any help you can provide!

Paul

 

Paul,
I removed the mSATA and HDD and installed the SSD.
I then did a fresh install of Win 7 on the SSD, after that I reinstalled the mSATA.

I didn't have any boot issues. After about a day, I decided to just ditch the SSD and reinstall the HDD. The SDD I installed wasn't any faster than the mSATA so I figured i just keep the mSATA as my boot/ program file drive and the HDD as storage.

For your issue, it may be because you left the mSATA drive in place when you installed the OS on the SSD.

The mSATA is on port0 and the Win 7 installer has a habit of installing the bootmgr (and often the 100MB system reserved partition) on the disk with the lowest port number. Since the system is trying to boot from port1, it doesn't see the bootmgr hense the load errors.

The way my system is setup, I use the mSATA as my OS drive. I have the bootmgr partition on the HDD and it points to the mSATA to load from.

 

Thanks for your fast and very informative response. I did make the mistake of keeping the mSSD in the laptop when Win 7 was installed hence the boot problem I'm going to reload Win 7 today and let you know how it goes.

Thanks again!

 

Reloaded Win 7 after removing the mSSD and the boot problem was solved.

Thanks again for the help!

Paul

 

Paul,

Glad I could be of help!

Mike