Hello experts. I am in the middle of a very peculiar situation and I would appreciate any information or advice given.
My old HP pavilion laptop has an empty tray (SATA 2 port) for another HDD to install. In an attempt to revive the machine, I bought for it recently an internal SSD.
The plan is to dual boot Win10 from SSD on SATA 1 and Win7 from old HHD on SATA 2 (was on SATA 1).
Unfortunately, SATA 2 is not bootable like SATA 1.
The BIOS (Insyde f.1b) comes with many limitations for the advanced users, but I wouldn`t like to flash it. It`s only legacy mode, no UEFI, EFI or secure boot options to enable/disable.
OSs have been installed on each drive respectively and the machine boots itself always from SATA 1, while it sees SATA 2 only as storage space.
Tried a few other bootloaders to fix the MRB to no avail. They all see the second OS, Win7 on SATA 2, but none of them seems to work (Win10 on SSD was cloned from old HDD, which later got formatted to host Win7, I don`t believe that they still share the same MRB do they).
With that being said, Is it possible to enter the OS from SATA 2 with SATA 1 being the only bootable port? Can EasyBCD or some other bootloader application make this work?
Thanks in advance.
My old HP pavilion laptop has an empty tray (SATA 2 port) for another HDD to install. In an attempt to revive the machine, I bought for it recently an internal SSD.
The plan is to dual boot Win10 from SSD on SATA 1 and Win7 from old HHD on SATA 2 (was on SATA 1).
Unfortunately, SATA 2 is not bootable like SATA 1.
The BIOS (Insyde f.1b) comes with many limitations for the advanced users, but I wouldn`t like to flash it. It`s only legacy mode, no UEFI, EFI or secure boot options to enable/disable.
OSs have been installed on each drive respectively and the machine boots itself always from SATA 1, while it sees SATA 2 only as storage space.
Tried a few other bootloaders to fix the MRB to no avail. They all see the second OS, Win7 on SATA 2, but none of them seems to work (Win10 on SSD was cloned from old HDD, which later got formatted to host Win7, I don`t believe that they still share the same MRB do they).
With that being said, Is it possible to enter the OS from SATA 2 with SATA 1 being the only bootable port? Can EasyBCD or some other bootloader application make this work?
Thanks in advance.