Installing SSD as Primary on Asus Laptop..Help

[teenwolf]

I just bought an Asus N56VZ-RH71 laptop which came with a 7200RPM HD...I also bought a Samsung 840 Pro Series 256GB to replace it...When I put the SSD in, the bios boots up and recognizes the new drive...but I see no option to change the boot order to install windows

When the 7200rpm drive was in it bios gave me the option to change boot or add boot options, all of which are blanked out with the SSD

After doing some searching it seems the problem lies with the UEFI bios, and after doing some googling I'm still confused what to do here

Basically when i turn the computer on, I press "esc" to get a list of devices to boot from - but the list is empty and the only option is "go to setup" which takes me to BIOS. If i don't press "esc" during start-up the computer goes directly to BIOS which shows the SSD as installed but gives me no options for boot order or anything like that

 

[kbp]

Welcome to the forums.
Why do you need to change the boot order if it boots directly to the SSD?
Is this not the drive you want to boot to?

 

[tracerbullet]

He's trying to set a different drive (ie CD) to be able to install Windows from.

I can't think of any reason why a new drive would do anything to the BIOS. Odd.

Trying to clone the existing drive in a different computer might be an option? Maybe flash to the latest BIOS and try again? Any chance the BIOS is pissed off that you swapped the drive to a different brand (Our PC's at work do something like this, they can detect a drive swap, and figure you've stolen proprietary data). Maybe stick a flash drive in and see if its presence triggers a new option?

 

[tweakboy]

Those samsung 840's are crap!!!!!!!!! Ive read over 1000 stories how 840 has some isssues with memory interface,, 830 is good. but not 840 its unrealiable junk...

 

[Ketchup]

There is another thread about Asus doing strange things like this. Like tracerbullet said, the easiest option should be to just copy the original hard drive to the SSC.

Alternatively, you should have the option to select which drive the computer boots from upon boot, without going into the BIOS.

 

[kbp]

I've got to believe with the SSd installed and a bootable CD in the CD drive bay that it will boot from the CD with a blank SSD plugged into the other port. . . Or at least I would try that first -

 

[rsutoratosu]

If your computer comes with Windows 8 preinstall, you need to go into the BIOS to check for secure boot option to disable, once you disable that you can have legacy boot, sounds like you have an uefi bios.

If you have UEFI bios, there is no such thing is boot selection.. thats with all the win8 laptops I been seeing from dell and toshiba