HP z420 SSD PROBLEM PLEASE HELP

[sam33331]

PLEASE HELP I purchased the new ssd bx500 thr 2.5 inch one and got a sata cable inserted into the sata port 0 .

first i got my windows 10 on my HDD;got the ssd initiated and formatted everything is fine till i wanted to get it the new operating system to boot yhe hp z420 . any usb flash disk i attach does not want to get me the space IT DOES NOT SHOW THE SSD SPACE AT installation screen . and even countless tries like getting the sas controller driver from windows 10 then reboot it does not want to create on the space. i tried ahci only ;,ahci +raid'ide.nothing is working. i tried cloning from my hdd to ssd again got me into blinking cursor black windows screen . what do i suppose to do ?? i can get into the ssd from the hdd at inside windows of hdd but i cant do windows inside ssd . and there was times when i got the ssd and got the windows inside it but says something like controller in the bios ?????i did all the 3 ahci ahci+raid and ide. how do ppl get windows inside that ssd to boot up ?????

[BambiBoomZ]

Sam33331,

First, try the drive again without any other drive connected. Boot to BIOS and check the status in Storage and record the boot order.

It's possible that: the new SSD is not properly formatted, does not have the volumes set as partitions, and/or more likely  is set to MBR instead of GPT.  GPT is required to run in an UEFI system as a boot drive.

Consider starting over to ensure each step:

1. Run the system on the previous OS drive and with the new drive installed as the only other drive.  Install a disk manager (I use EaseUs Partition Master) and that should provide a view of the settings  of the new drive.  With that utility,doing one task at a time:

2. delete any partitions, which will be designated as unallocated space,

3.  create a partition,

4.  set the partition GPT, format NTSF, set as active, and

5.  change the label to OS. 

These are quite easy to do in EaseUs PM thanks to the GUI.

BambiBoomZ