BIOS does not see a new SSD

I have a new Samsung 512GB Solid sate drive.

I have cloned my C: drive (which is the boot drive) via a USB interface.

The drive is present on the USB interface and the cloned drive C: files are there.

but when I place the SSD into the C: drive slot the BIOS is blank and sees no drive.

Does anyone know if the Dell Studio 1737 is just not compatible with an SSD drive?

I have the current A09 bios upgrade installed.