Hi - need some help trying to install a second SSD into my z820.
I have an existing ssd drive (a Micron 256gb) as my boot drive, and want to add another ssd (samsung evo 850 1tb) as my media drive. I bought the adapter so that it could be installed via the blindmate bay. I fit it, started up , and noticed the new drive didnt appear in the computer drives window( as in plug and pray) .
I then installed Samsung Magician. It saw the new drive( but with something about wanting AHCI to be setup) but it still didnt show up elsewhere.
I tried restarting and the pc failed to boot. It appeared that the boot order was trying to boot off the blank samsung SSD and so i rebooted with it removed, and the 256gb SSD booted up windows7( as usual).
I had a look at the sata cable connections on the board, and noted that HDD BAY 0 ( zero) SATA cable was connected to the SATA1 AHCI 1 connector ( SYS BRD is connected into 0), and that the other sata cables ( i gather for the bays) were as follows SAS 1> HDD BAY 1,SAS2 > HDD BAY2, SAS3> HHD BAY3
Currently i have the 256 ssd in bay 3 ( which i believe should be in bay 0 as the boot drive) , but it boots . If i put the 1TB SSD in it refuses to boot (DOS prompt at boot says it fails becasue its a non-system disk or drive error ) .
If i try the 256gb in bay 0 it fails to boot.
If i put it back into bay 3 and put the 1TB into bay 2 bios sees both drives in the mini -OROM window , but then wont boot into windows as a non system drive again.
I gather i need to change something in the BIOS to correct the boot order, or ??? Anyone able to help me ?
Below is the config report for the 256SSD according to HP Performance advisor.
Friendly Name: ATA MTFDDAK256MAM-1K SCSI Disk Device
Class Name: DiskDrive
Instance Id - Hardware Key: SCSI\DISK&VEN_ATA&PROD_MTFDDAK256MAM-1K\5&7378737&0&000300
Driver Key: {4d36e967-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0017
Driver Version Installed: Microsoft 6.1.7601.19133
Physical Device Object Name: \Device\0000008a
Hardware Device Location: Bus Number 0, Target Id 3, LUN 0
Device Enumerator: SCSI
Device Service Name: disk
Chassis Slot Number: 0
Port Identifier: 3
Size: 238.47 GB
Physical Disk Instance Name: 0 C: F:
Number of Partitions: 2
Status: OK
Media Type: Fixed hard disk media
C: Bytes Per Logical Sector: 512
C: Bytes Per Physical Sector: 512
C: Bytes Offset for Sector Alignment: 0
F: Bytes Per Logical Sector: 512
F: Bytes Per Physical Sector: 512
F: Bytes Offset for Sector Alignment: 0