Dell Inspiron 24 7000 choosing mSATA as boot drive? help please

frondono on 22/01/2016 - 09:42

Just got a new Dell Inspiron 24 7000 from the outlet.

It comes with Intel speed step (I think?) where it uses a 1tb as the main drive and has a 32gb msata ssd as a cache drive meant to speed things up a little.

I have managed to get windows to read the msata ssd as a seperate drive but I can't get it to show in the bios. The Boot Device Priority Menu shows up as Hard Drive, Disk Drive, DVD Drive (even though it doesn't have one), Network Connection. Not the names of the individual components (maybe it's a dell thing)

I thought this would be as simple as change the option in the boot device priority menu in the bios.

I am looking to install a 250gb ssd to run windows.

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Comments

  • oscargamer on 22/01/2016 - 12:05
    -1

    surely easiest talking to Dell not us ?

  • altomic on 22/01/2016 - 12:44

    Legacy option enabled in bios?

  • zond on 22/01/2016 - 14:50

    may not be the exact situation, but I recently replaced my optical drive with an SSD in caddy bay. Had tremendous hard time to transfer the boot device selection from the Sata to SSD.

    Ended up tweaking around, unscrewed the hard drive compartment, switched the old sata hard drive with new SSD and instead put the Sata into caddy bay. apparently they are of the same size.

    Works like charm!! my 6YO laptop runs like a dream machine now a days.

    try it…

  • scrimshaw on 22/01/2016 - 20:28

    For machines that have Intel Smart Response (SRT) enabled, you need to switch it off in the BIOS and instead choose AHCI or IDE. The recommended setting is AHCI.

    This setting is usually found in the Advanced Menu

    Screenshot
    http://en.community.dell.com/cfs-file/__key/communityserver-…

    Once you've done that, tab over to the <BOOT> section and then set your new SSD as the first priority boot device.

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