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Boot from ssd drive (optical drive bay)?

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by Riccardo83, Aug 15, 2012.

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Hello,

For some reason I swopped the ssd to the optical drive bay and the hdd back into its original place.

I felt the hdd was making weird sounds and was vibrating more due to the cheap hdd caddy.

After I swopped places the laptop did not start. So I pressed f12 at startup to start from the ssd. It worked!

BUT when I changed the boot sequence in the bios to make it permanent it failed and always set back hdd as a first option to boot from?

Another thing I tried was repairing win 7 startup did not work. Tried to install windows 7 on top but it said can not install on ssd coz it has mbr.

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Riccardo83, Aug 15, 2012

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