so ive been wanting to replace my harddive with one of a ssd since their faster and what not, so take out my old hard drive and put in the ssd and i get nothing. so i said fuck it ill put it in another night, so throw my old hdd back in and now i dont get the bios splash screen my monitor stays blank until the windows login appears. its never done that before, i want to delete every thing on my old hard drive but can get into the bios to start from disc... i press the del key right at post and keep pressing it but nothing shows up, so then i restart my computer and it just loads to windows in the same amount of time it would take if i can see the bios and loading screen.

any help please? also do laptop ssd work in computers? just curious cause i got one of those laying around thats bigger then my other one.

Yes most SSD's work in laptops but as a rule not every single one. If it only needs 5v power it should be good to go and most decent laptops probably also provide 3.3v if you have one of those weird ones but i think 3.3 is usually only on the 1.8" drives not the 2.5". If it needs 12v for some reason your shit out of luck.

Let me see if I can break this down:

1) you want to replace your hdd with a ssd,
2) you take out the hdd with the current OS installed,
3) you put in a blank ssd with nothing,

(have you installed a OS onto the SSD?)

After you install the OS of preference you should be able to take care of the old hdd, and as well, access files on it. (It does this by loading as a drive and skips the OS loading).

What is the issue from here?

A) You want to load a OS onto your new ssd?
B) You want to clear your old hdd of info?
C) Tom has gotten stuff confused and none of this is what I am looking for,

Thanks,

Tom

I am with tom, you didnt install the OS onto the new drive? If not and or you want to copy the shit over you can use a cd based solution to image the current drive onto the SSD if the space used is less than the SSD (and preferably if you can size the partition from windows before hand, not required though). Otherwise you still need to install whatever you want onto the SSD before anything happens.

ok so fuck the ssd. no didnt have the os installed on it, thats why i said fuck it ill do it tomorrow.

now my old hard drive that worked and booted just fine (hours prior to putting in the ssd) skips the bios screen and my monitor just stays blank until windows login appears,, i removed every thing including the hdd to see if the bios screen will pop up nothing happened just black screen.. so i put hdd back in and take out every thing else that isnt needed, took out my second gpu and tried, it then proceeds to work, bios pops up just fine. so im like wtf? i rebuild the whole computer no bios doesnt show up. so some how from trying to install the sdd, something got all fucked up.

I would ditch the trying to make an image of the old HDD; (it would cause more heartache then it's worth). I would install the OS on the new SSD, and the move files over as needed, and reinstall programs on the SSD. (They should be free anyways, and if not you can contact customer support and tell them you have reformatted if needed. You should be able to install multiple instances of most software.)

One thought within the IT sector is that you put your needed OS on the fast responsive SSD, and then you put the files, i.e., music, pictures, etc on an optical media that can catch up to your SSD once booted.

Just a thought, lets break it down more if needed and fix the problem.

If you are worried about moving your data (pictures, music) then that can be taken care of later.
If you are worried about protecting your old data to ensure that unauthorized individuals do not access it, we can take care of that later as well. We can get a software that can US/DOD 7 pass wipe your drive.

Cools, over'nd'out.

-Tom

Hmmm is it working at this point though? You said it posted after removing one of the GPU's not sure if its still posting to bios or not?

I would reset the cmos (pull the battery and power cord if you dont know how) and run one GPU and the HDD till you can boot to windows. If it was only happening with the SSD in id suggest swapping the sata ports their on or checking the config in the bios but if u cant get to it at all with it plugged in then... eek

Originally Posted by RainMotorsports

Hmmm is it working at this point though? You said it posted after removing one of the GPU's not sure if its still posting to bios or not?

I would reset the cmos (pull the battery and power cord if you dont know how) and run one GPU and the HDD till you can boot to windows. If it was only happening with the SSD in id suggest swapping the sata ports their on or checking the config in the bios but if u cant get to it at all with it plugged in then... eek

yes its posts, im on the computer im working on right now.. its just doesnt show the bios, it did with only one gpu.. im still on the old hard drive i didnt put in the ssd. its just the bios splash screen doesnt come up and the loading screen doesnt show, im going to remove my second gpu again and see what the fuck is going on brb.

Just try the usual Esc F2 del whatever. Esc will usually show the verbose bios screen and or bring up the boot menu. I have myne hidden behind my logo these days.

Originally Posted by RainMotorsports

Just try the usual Esc F2 del whatever. Esc will usually show the verbose bios screen and or bring up the boot menu. I have myne hidden behind my logo these days.

yea thats what ive been trying to say, its just a black screen even tho i push delete to get into my bios, i just installed windows on the ssd, every thing is good so far, thanks for the help.

When's the last time you updated the bios?

Originally Posted by sixer9682

When's the last time you updated the bios?

never.. every thing was working fine till i went around fucking with putting in a new harddrive

Update the bios before you install the SSD. Some motherboards for desktops don't recognize the SSDs without a bios update. That would the first thing I'd do. The newer motherboards don't seem to have this problem but some still do so it's a good place to start.

Did someone mention firmware update for the SSD, mine wouldn't work also until updated. I had other problems too, but that was specific to my laptop.

Also make sure you make the newly installed drive recognizable and name it. For a sec I thought Doaker's porn got on the loose :/