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HP Pavilion M7-1015dx, 2012 vintage, InsydeH20 BIOS (see pix) with no explicit setting for SATA mode, only the legacy mode choice for UEFI/CSM. It had run the OEM Win 7 fine, upgraded to Win 10 fine, reinstalled Win 10 clean from other media fine. Recently the factory HDD died. I've added SSDs to several desktop systems with no trouble, so I put in a new Kingston 240GB SSD -- and can't get to login with either Win10 *or* Win7 installation from DVD or USB, usually BSODing after the first restart with complaints about winload.efi or wlnload.exe. (I cleared all partitions between each attempt, and have tried both "legacy mode" settings.).
In frustration I got another laptop HDD and successfully installed Win 10, then cloned that to the SSD via a USB->SATA cable (don't have an internal cable for the second bay) -- and when I put the SSD in as the only drive, it still won't boot, saying either that there's no OS or that it's failing SMART. (It passes Kingston's and all other drive tests when attached to other systems.) Am I missing a step, or is there something about this hardware/BIOS that just doesn't like SSDs?
In frustration I got another laptop HDD and successfully installed Win 10, then cloned that to the SSD via a USB->SATA cable (don't have an internal cable for the second bay) -- and when I put the SSD in as the only drive, it still won't boot, saying either that there's no OS or that it's failing SMART. (It passes Kingston's and all other drive tests when attached to other systems.) Am I missing a step, or is there something about this hardware/BIOS that just doesn't like SSDs?