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‎04-14-2019 01:56 AM

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Product: elitebook 8770w
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit)

I put it in Kingston 128GB SSD (as primary boot partition), and install Windows 7 64-bit.
System recognize SSD all OK, BUT BIG problem it is unpossible to made at BIOS (v F.70) that mSATA (SSD) is first boot device?!
To Windows 7won't be start, I have to selected in BIOS "Multi boot menu delay" to 5 seconds ?!
So i hope HP will repair BIOS, because you can boot machine from HDD, ESATA, DVD, USB all only from mSATA you can't ?!

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‎04-14-2019 03:03 AM

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Try discontecting all other drives if there is any. Did you REALLY change the boot priority (F5-F6) to get to the top of the hard drive list in BIOS?

No need for thumbs up or other farcical deeds.
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‎04-14-2019 03:39 AM

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i have, but msata not in booting list.

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‎04-14-2019 03:49 AM

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If you haven't, try changing to AHCI somewhere there.

The disk must show up in BIOS to be able to boot.

Windows sees it cos they have drivers for it but your boot manager cant tell it to execute after a restart since it doesn't know it's there...

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‎04-14-2019 03:54 AM

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Please link to a Pic of your drive, is it really an mSATA?

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‎04-14-2019 04:43 AM

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‎04-14-2019 05:25 AM

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On laptops from that era the mSATA port is primarily designed to be an acceleration cache using Intel Rapid Storage. An mSSD in the mSATA port can only be the boot drive if no drive is present in any of the 2.5 inch SATA bays. 

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‎04-14-2019 05:53 AM

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there is, any solution for that?

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‎04-14-2019 06:16 AM - edited ‎04-14-2019 06:17 AM

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None that I know of. As they say it's a feature not a bug. Use a 2.5 inch SATA SSD. If you think the mSATA is somehow faster that is not the case. It's still basically a SATA SSD and a 2.5 inch in one of the hard drive bays will work just as well. 

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‎04-14-2019 08:40 AM

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thank u, for all.

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