Hi

I just bought a refurbished Precision M4800 that came with a WD 7200 black drive in the main bay, and then quickly added a Samsung 850 250G MSATA SSD in the WWAN port. Running Windows 8.1.

I've loaded the OS on the SSD and the installed the HDD. It works ok until I format the HDD, at which point it won't boot. All this is happening in legacy mode, because it won't boot at all in UEFI and Secure boot. I've been on the phone with Dell support for hours.  They're telling me that 8.1 has to run in legacy (even though it shipped and ran in UEFI when the OS was on the HDD.

In the brief period I've used it, I'm not thrilled with 8.1, and am ready to go back to 7. It seems like 8 is just layered on top of 7. But maybe that for a different discussion

Any suggestions?

Thanks

Don

I've also read conflicting posts throughout the Internet as to whether the mSATA wil run in SATA3 or just SATA 2.

Does the community have any new information.