set msata as boot drive in bios?

[spreadred]

I recently cloned my 1TB HDD to a 180GB SSD in my envy dv7. After doing that, I then physically switched the placement of these two drives thinking this would correct the boot order. It DID NOT.  It kept loading Windows from the old HDD.  However, by using bcdboot command, I was able to install the OS bootloader on the SDD, and now I can properly boot into the Windows installed on my SSD. Here is a link to the answer, I used:

http://superuser.com/questions/663733/windows-boot-manager-and-two-hard-disks

Hope this was helpful. I spent time searching everywhere for something that should have been super easy.

[ITbezproblem]

I used Acronis Disk Director boot disk to solve the problem. I cloned all mssd disk with Windows to HDD, after I deleted partition with windows on HDD.  After on HDD I created DATA partition for my data. In Windows you mast delete letter for 100 mb partition to hide it. 

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[trickbiker121]

Really wish that HP would fix this issue.  The current workaround stops the laptop from hibernating.

[wcnngt]

I want to share a working solution after a few hour of trial and error, it is quite simple and doesn't involve any third party software other than the windows 10 installation usb drive.  "caution*, this is clean install and will wipe everything on HDD and msata. 

1. Leave bios in factory default.

2. Boot windows 10 install usb drive to custom install.

3. Delete any partitions in drive 0 and drive 1. 

4. Create new partition on drive 0. (drive 0 is HDD and this will create boot record, later you can format the partition to use as data storage). 

5. Choose drive 1 and click continue to install windows on drive 1 (drive 1 is msata ssd). 

Done. windows is installed on drive 1 but computer boots from drive 0. 

[MrHix]

This guy is 100% correct.  The only option in Bios regarding msata is only whether it is enabled or disabled.   But there are no options to it in the boot menu at all.   

My current workaround is installing Windows UEFI style and then when I boot the computer I have to go to F9 (boot menu) and select boot from efi file and find the bootx64.efi file in the appropriate directory.  This is the only way to boot from msata.

It would be nice if HP were to add an msata boot option.

But, there is one I am about to google and work out... that is,, the customized boot option.  I just have to figure out what to type in when its referring to drives on a hardware level. 

[Serengetiman]

Thanks a Lot my friend, you saved my life, after three days trying to install Windows 10 on eSata SSD, downloading many of a third part software for solve booting problem in BIOS of my HP Envy 15. All  without sucess of course, I just tried your solution and Bingo!!! I should have come by your post earlier, would have saved me a lot of pain, cheers bro!