SL510 upgrade to ssd

[Doctor9]

From what I've read, the SL510 *can* be upgraded to an SSD. I just did a clean install of windows 7 64 bit, cloned the drive with macrium reflect to a Kingston A400 SSD - I can see everything on the drive if I plug it into a usb-SATA adapter. However, the bios refuses to see it. It lists HDD0, but there is no name beside it, and if I try to boot from it, it just doesn't acknowledge it. The drivers for the intel chipset are updated, the bios is updated - it's as if it doesn't exist.

I'm trying to upgrade this laptop for somone - I've done other Lenovo laptops, but no luck on this one.

Any Ideas?

[RealBlackStuff]

Depending on SATA settings in BIOS, change it from Compatible to AHCI.
Did you clone the boot partitions as well?
If not, redo the cloning including those partitions.

[Doctor9]

It was already AHCI. I did a full clone - as I've always done before - this isn't my first rodeo. I don't know if it's something to do with the Kingston A400 SSD (I've tried *2* of them). I can see everything on them when in a an external enclosure, but plug them into the drive bay and *poof* nothing. The Bios doesn't see them. The Windows install CD *sees* them, but can't install because the bios doesn't see them.

[Khavvie]

Did it pick up the original hard drive?

[Doctor9]

Oh, it does that no problem - slap it back in, and it reboots perfectly. I'm starting to wonder if it's the Kingston A400 line that 's the issue.

Kind of annoying if it is, means I need to buy another drive

[Doctor9]

Yup....the SL510 doesn't get the drive ID info from the Kingston A400 - I just bought a Crucial MX500. First thing I did was slap it in, boot up to bios - and there it is, an identified drive.

The A400 was fine in some newer models - I guess it just can't talk to the older hardware