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Thanks again for your input. FYI, I settled on a "compromise" that looks like the best of both worlds. I ended up with the stock HP install on the 1TB drive and then activated the mSata as a cache drive (64 GB). No dual boot. looks like very similar performance to a native install on the...

Theog, thanks for the quick reply and link. Sorry for the delay in response. That's one of the problems with this new system (and HP's apparent lack of concern about BIOS/UEFI options), there is NO option to set any drive as the boot drive! This is an Insyde bios (ver F.36) with very few...

Greetings, I have an HP ENVY TouchSmart 15-j063cl that originally came with a 1 TB drive with Windows 8. Goal was to move the system drive over to a 256 GB mSata and keep the original drive for data, VHDs, etc., and I have completed most of the work to get there. Basically I wish I had just...