Snoopception
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Hey, 1st time posting here, 1st time really posting on any advise forum as i am usual rather confident with all things computers, but this time i have become completely stumped for 3 days. I have an old x51 r2, i5 3.2ghz, 12gb RAM, GTX 745. I recently decided to breath some new life into this rig as i enjoy doing some 3d rendering as a hobby and my ambitions are starting to out do the capability of this computer. RAM went fine, nothing wrong there, i have a gtx 970 ready to go when i have got the hdd sorted....
BUT THE HHD IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!
I ordered a 500gb SSD, more specifically a Crucial MX500 2.5, MDL: CT500MX500SSD1. With the hopes of just removing the old 3.5 HDD for this one. I cloned the HDD to the ssd, all partition correctly, no problems there. I remove the HDD, put my SSD in, start it up, i go to Bios, the SSD is registered in the SATA2 port, so my pc recognizes its there, but i am given no option to add it to the boot order. I have turned off secure boot, i have played with every setting and tried everything i can think of, cloned it and re cloned it, installed windows from scratch onto the SSD, and its still not found it in the boot menu. Legacy boot recognizes it, but then cant boot from it. It wont even boot as an external drive.
Please help me before i pull my hair out!
BUT THE HHD IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!
I ordered a 500gb SSD, more specifically a Crucial MX500 2.5, MDL: CT500MX500SSD1. With the hopes of just removing the old 3.5 HDD for this one. I cloned the HDD to the ssd, all partition correctly, no problems there. I remove the HDD, put my SSD in, start it up, i go to Bios, the SSD is registered in the SATA2 port, so my pc recognizes its there, but i am given no option to add it to the boot order. I have turned off secure boot, i have played with every setting and tried everything i can think of, cloned it and re cloned it, installed windows from scratch onto the SSD, and its still not found it in the boot menu. Legacy boot recognizes it, but then cant boot from it. It wont even boot as an external drive.
Please help me before i pull my hair out!
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