New SSD not recognized, Pavilion 17, AMD drivers

[Analyzer]

Hello,

I bought the laptop (HP Pavilion Notebook 17-f250) on September 2015 and this September 2016 i decided to upgrade with a 2nd SSD.

I bought a caddy, placed my SAMSUNG EVO 850 PRO inside, removed the optical drive, and then place the CADDY inside the laptop. It fitted perfectly, no issue there.

But Windows doesn't recognize this at all in DISK MANAGEMENT.

It doesn't appear there in order to format it, etc..

My IDE/SATA appears as "AMD SATA CONTROLLER".

I can't find anywhere any option to enablev AHCI etc.. My BIOS doesn't have any option to check if AHCI drivers are enabled or not.

With AUTO-DETECT my driver is : AMD A4-6210 APU with AMD RADEON R3 graphics.

My operating system is WINDOWS 10.

FYI, i bought another same SSD for my desktop and worked smoothly. I am only having trouble with my laptop, and i cannot figure out how to make Windows recognise the SSD!

BR,

Dionisis

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Which caddy did you buy? There are a lot of these on the market and some are not made with highest quality control. Did you maybe test it with another hard drive?

Secondly, the interface for the optical drive is SATA which is ahci. Drivers are not the issue.

Lastly, putting an SSD in an optical drive is a bit of overspending since an optical drive interface is slower so the SSD speed is wasted. It would be far better to put a large, slow regular hard drive in the optical bay for storage. Having an SSD in there will not be fast in any sense. Also, a drive in an optical bay is not going to be bootable. 

[Analyzer]

Hi,

Thanks for your fast reply!
The Caddy is from the local market here, not specifically an HP Caddy.

So, you think the best solution is to open laptop, replace HDD with SSD , and try again?

Is there a safe way or documentation on how to safely open laptop?

BR,
DIONISIOS

[Analyzer]

Hi,

You were right!

I open my laptop and put SSD inside with no issue, windows activated smoothly!

Then i used the caddy for my HDD, with no issue!

Thank you for your support!!!!

BR,

Dionisis

[Huffer]

Good job! Thanks for reporting back. Helps the Forum.