have a HP laptop w/2 drives works great till I reinstall 2nd

Johnw January 5, 2015 at 17:43:14

Go into the bios after you I install 2nd drive, go to Boot & make sure the SS drive boots first.

Derek January 6, 2015 at 11:35:54

Just for into, for your laptop it is stated that you enter BIOS by pressing F10 while the HP logo is displayed. Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks message edited by Derek

thanks but tried that, bois doesn't see 2nd drive tried installing it after boot, still doesn't see it but still will not boot w/ both drives in.

Derek January 8, 2015 at 09:05:18

With everything plugged in normally what drives are listed in BIOS? Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks

It doesn't list hard drive (name) just hard drive didn't see second drive (not even one & two)

Derek January 8, 2015 at 17:54:17

On the face of it sounds as if the BIOS is screwed but that would be mighty unusual. I assume both drives are SATA. Although it shouldn't be necessary I wonder if it would tell us something if you swapped over the two connections Always pop back and let us know the outcome - thanks

Its a note book, and yes I tried swapping the two drives, know difference. I'm don't want to do anything with bios because hp doesn't recognize os (came with vista) I don't want to have a paper wait if it goes bad!