i attempted an ssd install (along with win7) as win8 64 seems foreign and clunky to me
I unpluged the sata and power to the win8 hdd and plug in a new 250gb ssd,
check the bios which is set to ahci fine, and attempted to install win7 pro x64
so on bootup i kept getting "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected Boot device and press a key" despite changing drive bootup sequence to dvd drive, tinkering with bootup sequence, resetting bios to factory default, user default
then gave up and plug the connectors back to the win8 hdd and it is fubar after its ~15min attempt to repair failed
then it's off to the acer recovery image which re-image (i'm guessing from a hidden partition) to its original shipped state...
check the bios again, the seagate drive is listed as UEFI-ST0001xxxxxxxx (sic)
and it's on sata 1 (sata 0 is empty)
so is this a uefi issue, a bios issue, or a win7 pro issue. thanks!
(can't be a partition issue as the ssd is brand new right out of the package)
I unpluged the sata and power to the win8 hdd and plug in a new 250gb ssd,
check the bios which is set to ahci fine, and attempted to install win7 pro x64
so on bootup i kept getting "Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected Boot device and press a key" despite changing drive bootup sequence to dvd drive, tinkering with bootup sequence, resetting bios to factory default, user default
then gave up and plug the connectors back to the win8 hdd and it is fubar after its ~15min attempt to repair failed
then it's off to the acer recovery image which re-image (i'm guessing from a hidden partition) to its original shipped state...
check the bios again, the seagate drive is listed as UEFI-ST0001xxxxxxxx (sic)
and it's on sata 1 (sata 0 is empty)
so is this a uefi issue, a bios issue, or a win7 pro issue. thanks!
(can't be a partition issue as the ssd is brand new right out of the package)