Kingston SSD isn't detected in the BIOS

[dposada70]

I have a 500 gb HDD in my HP ProBook 640 G1 (F2R38LT#ABM), but recently I bought an SSD from Kingston, the A400 with 240 gb, but every time I try to install Windows on it the Installer tells me I have a disk but it doesn't has free space, not even space left or the size of the memory.

I already tried switching modes, between Legacy, UEFI with and without CSM, the SATA mode is AHCI, and the connector works fine, I can tell it works because right now I'm using the HDD with Windows. I also used diskpart, installed windows on the SSD with other Notebooks, and it worked fine.

I don't know if the SSD is not compatible, but if someone could help I'd really appreciate it

[pepe999]

Hi,

Everything works fine now but it took me some time to get it working. I think I disabled the Secure Boot and ignored the Legacy Mode to get it working because the Legacy Mode didn't recognize the SSD as I thought it should. I was pretty mad that it didn't work as I expected but got it working eventually by disabling the Legacy mode enabling the Secure Boot and then disabling the Secure Boot again (reboot after every change). Give it a go and play with it a bit because it definitely works in UEFI mode. Got a MacOS Mojave on the main HyperX Kingston SSD and Sabayon linux in the optical drive bay on one of the Intel solid drives.

[dposada70 · Accepted solution]

Hello

After some months of denial I got a great hint from https://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Boot-and-Lockup/Probook-6560b-does-not-recognize-my-SSD/td-p/...

After reading that I tried it (changed SATA speed from 6.0Gbps to 3.0), also changed to UEFI Hybrid and using it on mbr works so much faster than my old hdd.

I really appreciate your help, it motivated me after all these months.

Thanks.