SSD Caddy not recognized

[Delta61]

I want to use a 960GB SSD instead of the optical drive bay, which is connected with the Universal Serial Bus (just like the internal USB ports). For that, I use a Caddy, which allows me to put an SSD in the optical drive bay. The problem is that it doesn't get recognized, unless I boot with the regular optical drive and then switch it for the SSD. But that is not practical and I want the SSD to be recognized directly, without having to switch the drives.

[WAWood]

@Delta61 

You need to go into the BIOS/UEFI settings and see if the SSD in the caddy is listed as boot device.

IF it is not, there is nothing you can do to boot from it.

[Delta61]

.@WAWood

It strangely isn't listed, but that's not my concern, I don't want to boot from it. I just want it to show as an available device once I boot into Windows. I already have the drive partitioned and listed because it did show up when I booted with an optical drive in the drive bay and switched it for the SSD while in Windows.