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‎01-25-2017 01:27 PM

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Have a Zbook G3 17 which came with SATA,1TB HD only.  Installed a 1TB SSD M.2 2260 PCIe in the SSD connector on system board, updated BIOS to latest version and both drives are recognized and accessable in Win 7.

 

My issue is, in the BIOS, I can not permanently change boot drive from HDD 0 to SSD. If I press "F9" key during booting up, I can select which drive to boot off of during that startup only. Next boot up computer reverts to HDD 0 for booting up.  I do not see anywhere in the BIOS where one can permanently select which drive to boot up on.

 

I want to have the HDD as a data drive/backup and SSD as primary drive. Has anyone experienced this issue, if so how to corrected, or am I nuked?

 

Fred

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‎01-25-2017 02:21 PM - edited ‎01-25-2017 02:28 PM

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Does the hard drive still have an OS on it? I have exactly the same setup in my Zbook 15 G3, which has the same motherboard, I think and I pulled the 2.5 inch drive during Windows installation and formatted the 2.5 inch drive before putting it back in the machine. Mine boots from the M.2 now. Since you have Windows 7 you are using Legacy boot and it will default to the Windows bootloader and the boot sector on the hard drive is taking priority.

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‎01-25-2017 02:21 PM - edited ‎01-25-2017 02:28 PM

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Does the hard drive still have an OS on it? I have exactly the same setup in my Zbook 15 G3, which has the same motherboard, I think and I pulled the 2.5 inch drive during Windows installation and formatted the 2.5 inch drive before putting it back in the machine. Mine boots from the M.2 now. Since you have Windows 7 you are using Legacy boot and it will default to the Windows bootloader and the boot sector on the hard drive is taking priority.

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‎01-25-2017 02:57 PM

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Thank-you for reply.

 

Currently both drives have OS on them, as 1st step was to clone HDD to SSD. Believe my workbook defaults to UEFI mode and not Legacy. I can eliminate HDD OS to see if will work as yours, which was direction I was heading, but first wanted to get booting off SSD before reformatting the HDD.

 

Fred

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‎01-26-2017 05:59 AM

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Huffer

 

Disconnected HDD and ZBook booted up on SSD. 🙂

 

Reconnected HDD, formatted and all is well, thank-you for the advise.

 

Fred

 

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