gt70 bios

Hello, i have a MSI GT70 and i have a problem. i just bought this laptop and i wanted to install an ssd so i cloned it and i went into my bios via advanced settings in w8 and i changed some setting in my boot and now what it does is when it boots it shows me a screen that says bigfoot boot agent press shift+f10 to configure then after three seconds it goes to a next screen saying that it couldnt find a bootable device and to try again. I did try doing the boot order via f11 but that did nothing. so what i think i need is to somehow get into my bios which i cant figure out with out going into w8 and reset it.

Thank you

 

You mean pressing Delete/F2 key during POST when booting does not enter into BIOS? If you use legacy settings there is an issue where it will try to boot from bigfoot first no matter what, I believe.

 

i had that issue when i set my BIOS to Legacy!
Just hit delete (or ENTF if you have a german keyboard liek i do ) and you can get into BIOS again to undo your settings!

best regards

 

thats the setting i changed but for some reason (even before this problem) pressing the DEL key never got me into bios. the only way i could get into bios was through the Windows 8 advanced menu. how do i reset the BIOS with out having to go into it, that seems to be the only way to undo everything i did.

Thanks

 

OK I have found the solution by finding and unplugging the CMOS battery and holding my power button for a few minutes which did reset the BIOS settings and i can now boot my computer so now I want to switch the topic over to ssd. I just bought a Samsung 840 120 gb ssd and i installed it into the seecond bay and I used the Samsung data migration software to clone the OS to the ssd but how do I set it up to make the computer boot off of the ssd rather then the hdd. I have tried going into the BIOS setting but as you know i f'ed that up so now i don't know what to do.

Thank you

 

You are welcome and I am glad you were able to solve your problem, at least your original problem haha.

If you clone disks, make sure you can see the SSD as an option on the boot order menu on your BIOS. It has to have higher priority. Also, you most likely need to format the HDD if it's still trying to enter to windows there. I suggest first you remove the HDD and boot only on your SSD to make sure it is working properly and that the cloning was successful.

Afterwards, if it worked, you should delete the HDD info by formatting it. You can do it by plugging it in like an external HDD and on windows select to format it/delete it. If you don't have such option, you can uninstall the SSD, hook up internally the HDD again and use a windows setup disk to format your drive as if you were going to do a fresh install. It should no longer be bootable. Then just reconnect your SSD and on windows reformat and make your HDD a part of your system again.

Hope this helps.