Hi,
in my new Aspire E1-572 I tried to install an additional SDD/HDD inside the DVD's drive bay (using a hdd caddy).
Unfortunately, I had not too much luck. The additional device in this bay will sometimes not be recognized/initialized properly:
- I tried to install the SDD as the primary harddisk behind the cover on the bottom of the notebook and the HDD inside a caddy. Sometimes the notebook hangs at the BIOS splash screen. A soft reboot often resolves the issue and boot up continues. Within Windows7's drive manager the additional drive will be detected - but cannot be formatted. (It takes forever till receiving an error message)
- The other way round: HDD in the caddy and SDD as primary device. Again, Win7 installation went succesful, although there were 2-3 reboots not working properly (read: System partion from HDD is read, but SDD with Win7 n/a). Not it is not working at all anymore (SDD not available).
The connection of the caddy is properly done.
BIOS-Version: 2.13 (most recent, official one)
Boot-Mode: Legacy (With UEFI Win7 installation gets stuck (not a boot policy thing, though...))
SATA-Mode: AHCI
My question: Anybody out there haveing succesfully an HDD and SDD in operation?
Do you think I can improve my situation with any other BIOS or unlocked/advanced BIOS settings? (e.g. telling the BIOS that there is a second mass storage device and not an ATAPI-CDROM...)
(Version 2.13 does not offe anything useful here)
Thanks for any hints!
Sams
