You'll need a boot manager on the internal hard drive -- you cannot boot from a hard drive installed in an optical bay adapter -- the BIOS in the system will not boot from such a drive.
It's certainly possible that the system doesn't support using an ODD HDD as a boot device, but I would be surprised if that were the case since the system just sees that as another SATA port, so I can't think of a good reason why it would allow booting from an optical drive on that port but not a hard drive. Have you tried installing the caddy SSD in the main HDD bay on your laptop just to confirm that it boots properly in that setup? First you have to make sure that works.
But as mentioned above, typically you would update Windows Boot Manager on your main hard drive to include an option to boot from the secondary drive. That way, technically at a system level you always boot to your main HDD, but that drive loads a menu that allows you to redirect to loading the Windows installation on your secondary drive. That isn't strictly necessary since you should just be able to select the caddy HDD as a boot device whenever you want by using the F12 one-time boot menu, but that's a bit less convenient -- although that method will work even if there's a problem with the main HDD, which isn't true with the Windows Boot Manager scenario.
I have tried to update the boot manager in advance startup but apparently it does not see other OS as well. I think similarly to BIOS setting it doesn't recognize the optical bay SSD.
Have you tried installing the caddy SSD in the main HDD bay on your laptop just to confirm that it boots properly in that setup? [ Yes, certainly and it works on main hard drive SATA port]
How to I update my Windows Boot Manager? I actually don't mind to use F12 everytime but the problem is in the BIOS level it doesn't recognize the optical bay HDD. I did try to remove my original HDD and left only the SSD with optical bay caddy, it doesn't work as well.
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You'll need a boot manager on the internal hard drive -- you cannot boot from a hard drive installed in an optical bay adapter -- the BIOS in the system will not boot from such a drive.
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It's certainly possible that the system doesn't support using an ODD HDD as a boot device, but I would be surprised if that were the case since the system just sees that as another SATA port, so I can't think of a good reason why it would allow booting from an optical drive on that port but not a hard drive. Have you tried installing the caddy SSD in the main HDD bay on your laptop just to confirm that it boots properly in that setup? First you have to make sure that works.
But as mentioned above, typically you would update Windows Boot Manager on your main hard drive to include an option to boot from the secondary drive. That way, technically at a system level you always boot to your main HDD, but that drive loads a menu that allows you to redirect to loading the Windows installation on your secondary drive. That isn't strictly necessary since you should just be able to select the caddy HDD as a boot device whenever you want by using the F12 one-time boot menu, but that's a bit less convenient -- although that method will work even if there's a problem with the main HDD, which isn't true with the Windows Boot Manager scenario.
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June 1st, 2018 17:00
Alright. Is there any bootloader you can recommend?
Thanks.
wcs1112
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June 1st, 2018 17:00
I have tried to update the boot manager in advance startup but apparently it does not see other OS as well. I think similarly to BIOS setting it doesn't recognize the optical bay SSD.
wcs1112
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June 1st, 2018 17:00
Have you tried installing the caddy SSD in the main HDD bay on your laptop just to confirm that it boots properly in that setup? [ Yes, certainly and it works on main hard drive SATA port]
How to I update my Windows Boot Manager? I actually don't mind to use F12 everytime but the problem is in the BIOS level it doesn't recognize the optical bay HDD. I did try to remove my original HDD and left only the SSD with optical bay caddy, it doesn't work as well.
Thanks.