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On my T430s, I placed a OCZ SSD drive in a FRU 43R1984 drive bay adapter. Popped out the optical drive and inserted the adapter. I then booted with a USB stick containing Partition Magic and some other utilities. None of them see the new SSD. They only see the internal hard drive and the bootable USB stick.

Is there a setting in the BIOS I need to change? If so, I can't find it. Why can't any of these programs see the SSD?

Thanks

If you place the ssd in the main bay, and the old drive in the ultrabay HDD, which, if any get detected?

It won't fit. The drive in the main bay is 1/4" thick, but my OCZ SSD is 3/8". It fits fine in the drive bay adapter, but is too thick for the main bay.

Try putting the main drive into the ultrabay adapter, then. This will help rule out whether the ultrabay adapter is functioning. There should also be a security or IO section in the BIOS somewhere where you can set each IO port to be enabled. However, it should be enabled by default.

1. Is the drive formated?

2. Does 'sudo lshw' find the OCZ SSD?

You could use the "logical name" given by lshw to partition the drive with fdisk. An alternative is to put xubuntu on the usb, install gnome-disk-utility (shows up as 'disks' in the menu) and see if that finds the drive.

Or just mount the drive manually.
mkdir oczssd && sudo mount /dev/sdXx oczssd

You may also need to change some BIOS settings from UEFI to Legacy.

Thanks everyone for the replies. Hopefully I'll have some time to play with this again this weekend.

BTW, the optical DVD drive works fine in that bay.