Can't setup my new SSD as BOOT drive.

Hello,


I have just recently exchanged my DVD-drive in my Sony Vaio SVS1512Z9B with a SSD drive. Following the instructions from Sony Vaio S15 Disassembly and ODD Replacement Tutorial - YouTube .
After installing the drive I made a data migration from my old HDD to my new SSD. The migration included everything even Windows since I want to use my SSD as boot drive.
However after I successfully migrated everything I restart my computer and enter the BIOS to set it as boot drive it is nowhere to be found.
I then remove my old HDD, the normal boot drive, and try to start again. The computer starts up just fine and alot faster than usuall so apparently the migration went well and I do have a valid OS on there.
Again I enter the BIOS (still without my normal HDD connected and my SSD connected to the old DVD connector) and now I have no internal HDD available at all. The computer apperently consideres my SSD as an external HDD.
But ok, if that works I try to change the boot order to have external source set as higher priority than internal.
I plug my old HDD back in and restart my computer.
As expected the computer starts up just fine, and fast as the SSD is used as boot drive. But now I still can not see my old HDD even when it is connected.

So do anyone have any suggestions on how to make the computer recognize my new SSD as an internal HDD?

 

So no one has any ideas?

 

The old HDD with Windows might be labeled as a C: drive in Windows, even when booting the SSD, which means that it will be without label when you boot with the SSD. You might want to check that up using Administrative tools - Computer Management - Disk Management (I think it's called in English) and give the HDD a drive-letter.

 

How about place SSD in HDD port and put HDD to DVD port.

 

Sorry for late reply. I emailed a bit with Sony who of course didn't want to help me since they don't support exchanging of harddrives. However from the conversation I indirectly got to know that they have simplified the BIOS on their computers to prevent people to fiddle to much themselves. I suspect that this is the problem, I am missing the settings needed in the BIOS.

But since I didn't feel like spending anymore time on this issue I took the boring way out by switching places between the HDD and the SSD. Now everything works fine.

 

This is what I told you above.
In fact they won't support you what the didn't design for their laptop. If you want to modify it, then you have to do it yourself.

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