Storage drive instead of dvd drive in laptop giving me boot problems

[Goran]

I recently changed out the boot drive of my Dell Insprion 1764 for a 120GB kingston SSD. Cloned my old 500GB drive on to it and it boots up super fast and is all fine and dandy.
Took the old HDD and stuck it in one of these: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/350504345...X:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649#ht_4839wt_1396

After formatting the drive, it is recognised in windows and i've transferred my itunes and movies and stuff to it and that all works fine.

Now, the problem i'm having is when i turn on my laptop with the storage drive plugged in, it goes to the screen with the DELL logo but the bar at the bottom only goes 3/4 of the way along and no further. I can't get in to BIOS or anything. If i pull out the hard drive (which is easy to do as its in place of the cd drive) it boots up as normal (and really fast thanks to the new ssd ;])

does anyone know anything i can do to fix this?
I've tried looking in the BIOS but as it's a dell, there's not a lot of options and as I can only get in to the BIOS with the HDD unplugged, I can't see any options for it.

any help would be much appreciated OC3D!

cheers

 

[castleite]

myabe the cd drive has a higher boot proirity than your sdd and because the hdd is in the cd drive slot maybe your laptop is trying to boot onto the hdd, just a thought

 

[Goran]

i've changed the boot order to hard drive first and cd last but it still does the same thing. guess i'll always have to pop out the hard drive before i boot up

 

[hmmblah]

Usually when you set it to boot to hard drive, you have to also pick which hard drive. CD drive isn't coming into play at all so it doesn't matter what it's boot priority is. If I'm understanding you correctly you took the DVD drive out and put in that HD cage in it's place so you can have two hard drives in your laptop?

Also, have you checked to see if there is a more recent BIOS?

 

[Goran]

just updated the bios and that didn't fix it. i would try change the boot order of each hard drive, but i can't get to the bios with the hard drive plugged in!

really no idea what to do.

 

[Josh Weston]

It seems strange to me that you can't get to the BIOS because of a HDD change...I thought the two were independent of eachother. Doesn't make sense, at least not to me.