I hope someone can help.The computer--a new Lenovo Thinkpad X230 notebook, which came with Win8 Pro pre-installed on the 500GB HDD.I bought and installed a 256GB Micron mSATA SSD to the PCIe slot., with the intention of a clean install of Win 8 to the SSD as system drive, and use the HDD as a data drive.First of all, the Win 8 installation (from USB stick) would not accept the SSD as a drive to install Windows 8 to. On reading forums though, I tried removing the HDD from the laptop (fortunately, very easy to do on that model), and it worked, I successfully did a clean install of Win8 to the SSD. Very quick painless installation after that.A couple of problems remain though:1) I wanted to have the system reserve partitions with recovery options installed on the SSD too. Although one can do that from a USB stick, I find it good to have it built in to the system, the recovery options. (Not the manufacturer recovery partition. No interest in that.) Anyhow, from reading here I assumed that when one installs Win8 to a blank drive with nothing on it, that it will automatically create the necessary system recovery partitions. Anyhow, that did not happen. Why? In any case, how do I now after installation create those system recovery partitions on the SSD. (I have them on the HDD still, but I doubt it would work to copy them over somehow.)2) Before I re-attached the HDD, the system booted up fine from the SSD, with clean install of Win8 Pro. Certain problems arose though, after re-attaching the HDD. First of all, although I of course plan to format the HDD to use as a data drive, I have not yet done so. First I want to check if there are any files on it that I want to save. So it still is a bootable system drive as well. If the HDD is attached, the laptop will boot from the HDD, not the SSD. That is even true if I set the SSD to a higher boot priority in the BIOS, very surprising!There is one way I can get it to boot to the SSD, when the HDD is attached. That is, through pressing F12 at startup, which goes to boot manager, and choosing the SSD there. If I boot up that way to the SSD though, I notice something else strange. The HDD is now completely invisible, doesn't show up anywhere. Not only does it not appear under Computer, it also does not appear in Disk Management, nor does it appear in Device Manager. There is no indication anywhere that a HDD is connected to the computer, when I have booted up via the SSD. What could be causing that? How could I fix that? (For instance, I cannot even format the HDD, nor do anything to it, when it is so totally invisible when the system is booted from the SSD.) (And of course, I could not format the HDD if booted from the HDD.)Anyone understand what is going on? Solutions?
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