![]() ![]() Obvious step here, put your mSATA drive in the mSATA slot. ![]() Alternatively, you could download the drivers from the HP site and extract just the drivers, but I think it's easier to go straight to Intel. Download the Intel Rapid Storage RAID drivers directly from intel, and extract them to the root of the USB key. Not going to walk through the steps here, but google "bootable usb windows 8 fat32 diskpart" and you'll get a step by step tutorial. This MUST be FAT32! UFEI will not recognize an NTFS USB boot drive. Create a bootable USB key with your Win 8 OS on it (you can download an ISO directly from Microsoft, and the license key is embedded in the BIOS). If you don't want to do this, you could always use a partition utility to manually delete just the boot partition off the HDD, and disable the "ACTIVE" flag. ![]() Note, my easy way here involves wiping ALL data from both drives. I finally figured it out, and I thought if I was struggling with it, maybe someone else is too. I want to be able to yank that 1TB HDD at a moment's notice and have the system not be affected. I could get it to work if I didn't have an HDD in there at all, or if I had the boot sector on the HDD. I was doing a lot of research, and ALMOST returned the laptop because I couldn't figure out a GOOD way to run a 256G mSATA SSD as the boot drive, plus keep the 1TB drive as a separate data drive. ![]()
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