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I cannot boot from my second SSD drive
Hi everybody.
I have a DELL Inspiron 1564 and I replaced my DVD drive with an SSD (using this adapter) in order to have and a second SSD.
My problem is I can't boot from the second SSD, only from the first one.
(I can read and write files from the second)
You 'll find the report from HWinfo here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qhkFm2WLjIfzsWgZwr1CEES3ZEcjf6t3/view?usp=sharing
Any help on how to boot from the second SSD is welcome.
AdrianG001
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Posted February 11th, 2022 03:00
Maybe your 1st SSD is a M2.SATA and the laptop has a “one-or-the-other" 2nd “parallel" SATA connector effectively turning off the built-in. What's the device list - empty as well?
Make/model of that laptop would help a lot, for searching the online mainboard manual.
@AdrianG001 wrote:
What's the device list - empty as well?
(if you mean this by 'device list')
While booting, if I press f12 I get these boot options:
1. Hard drive
2. CD/DVD/CD-RW Drive
3. Removable devices
4. Network
5. Diagnostics
@AdrianG001 wrote:
Make/model of that laptop would help a lot, for searching the online mainboard manual.
I mention it in my first post, DELL Inspiron 1564.
ejn63
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Posted February 9th, 2022 09:00
While you can use the adapter/caddy for a storage drive, the system will not boot from the drive installed in the adapter. Only the hard drive connected to the system board directly can function as the boot drive.