bios will not recognize any SSD SATA drive

[dwu7373]

When I try to connect a SSD sata drive the BIOS does not see the drive. F10 to enter BIOS and the drive is not there. HDD drives I have no problem. I have tried several brand and sizes of SSD drives and none will work. The SSD drives however 

[BeemerBiker]

It is possible the bios is not reporting it as present until it is partitioned.

Boot into windows and run the "create and format hard disk partitions"

I assume you have it connected to one of the following and have attached the power connector

It is possible that SSD formatted to 4096 bytes per sector may have problems.  What SSDs have you tried and are they 512 bytes per sector?

I assume you have AHCI enabled  and not RAID

[dwu7373]

The drives I tried were Western Digital blue and green SSD SATA 240GB and SanDisk pro 240gb. Non formatted disk should not be a problem if you are doing a new Windows install. Windows will automatically do  that. I did think about that maybe SSD behave different than HDD drives so I did format the drives first. Any SATA HDD I connect direct to the motherboard the BIOS reds no problem, not SSD SATA drives

[BeemerBiker]

Any of those should have worked fine.  Something is wrong.  I do not have your 705 G1 system.

There is a UEFI diagnostic.  

https://support.hp.com/us-en/help/hp-pc-hardware-diagnostics

Please run that.

How did you format the drives?  Did you use another computer or an adapter to USB?

Did you  try to run that "create and format" app with the WD blue (or any other) attached?

Is SATA set for AHCI?

I have several of the WD blue and WD has cloning software that can be downloaded free.

[dwu7373]

I will download the UEFI diagnostic.  I used USB and disk management to format drive

[dwu7373]

This is getting stranger as a go. I installed the SSD in my old HP 8510p laptop, Did a clean windows install and the drive works fine. I ran a UEFI diagnostic check on my HP 705 G1 SFF computer with the HDD drive that has been working fine. It tested with no errors. I took out that drive and and installed (only) the SSD drive that was tested on my laptop and ran another  UEFI diagnostic test. The test said no drive installed. I understand it could not have booted because it would have the wrong drivers but the BIOS should have seen it. You mentioned AHCI and not RAID, my computer model recommends IDE.  

[dwu7373]

SSD's I have tried are 512 bytes per sector

[BeemerBiker]

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@dwu7373 wrote:

This is getting stranger as a go. I installed the SSD in my old HP 8510p laptop, Did a clean windows install and the drive works fine. I ran a UEFI diagnostic check on my HP 705 G1 SFF computer with the HDD drive that has been working fine. It tested with no errors. I took out that drive and and installed (only) the SSD drive that was tested on my laptop and ran another  UEFI diagnostic test. The test said no drive installed. I understand it could not have booted because it would have the wrong drivers but the BIOS should have seen it. You mentioned AHCI and not RAID, my computer model recommends IDE.  

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Yes, this is strange.  SSD should function with IDE or the newer AHCI.  There are benefits to using AHCI such as improved speed and compatibility.

I have never used 705 G1 and it is strange your model recommends IDE.   IDE mode provides better compatibility with some older hardware.  However, your motherboard has SATA connectors, not PATA so those older disk drives cannot easily be attached.

Possibly you need AHCI to get the SSDs to work.  This is just a guess as it should not make that kind of difference  (not working)

I assume you have a backup of the OS drive.  If you do then

(1) You have backup drive:  Boot into safe mode, make a registry change, then re-boot into the BIOS setup and enable AHCI as described here

https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/enable-ahci-after-win-10-installation.html

(2) You do not have a backup of the OS drive handy but have copied important items to external storage***.

Download windows l0 ISO (either Pro or Home depending on what your OS is) and put it on a USB flash drive.   Use a 16gb flash that has an LED that blinks to show it is working.

Remove your HDD and put one of the SSD in its slot.

Put the flash drive into USB

Power up and press F10 or DEL or whatever gets into the BIOS setup.

Select AHCI

Select USB for primary boot.  You may have to disable secure boot.

Save setting and reboot into windows 10 setup.  Windows should find the drive.  Delete any existing partitions and install windows.  Remove the USB and verify windows 10 works.  

*** Possibly you could attach the old HDD to a USB adapter that is smart enough to see the drive is in IDE mode.  You can then copy what you need to the new SSD.

[dwu7373]

I do not think AHCI is the problem because the SSD installed and booted fine with my old HD 8510P laptop that does not have AHCI option. Anyway, I removed my HDD and installed the SSD and switched my BIOS to AHCI. I saved and restarted the computer and I received a message IDE device Failed. I turned off the computer and inserted a USB windows 10 install drive with the SSD still installed in SATA, got the same message. I reset the BIOS back to IDE and with the SSD still connected and the Windows install USB inserted the computer booted to the USB. Windows install informed that no drive was detected for installation. Now why would it not boot with the USB drive when set to AHCI but it did boot when switched back to IDE 

[BeemerBiker]

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@dwu7373 wrote:

I do not think AHCI is the problem because the SSD installed and booted fine with my old HD 8510P laptop that does not have AHCI option. Anyway, I removed my HDD and installed the SSD and switched my BIOS to AHCI. I saved and restarted the computer and I received a message IDE device Failed. 

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When you formatted it using the USB adapter the layout was IDE: "cylinder head sector".  You then switched to AHCI and got the warning it was in IDE layout and AHCI was unable to find the boot sector (or the sector having the map of where things are)

I suspect someone with experience using your system will need to provide a walk thorough.