CQ50-130US: CQ50-130US SSD not recognized

My in-laws CQ50-130US has a scratch disk, but the machine is SO slow I want to update a 5400 RPM for one SSD and windows Vista 7 (or maybe 10). I installed a Sandisk Plus 120 GB SSD but can not get the system to recognize it. I can see it using a USB docking station I have on another machine, I even formatted it so the drive seems to be OK.

I updated the BIOS of F.25 to F.65. The BIOS will start to test the drive (because I don't know what all the test consists of I cancel immediately so I use unnecessarily) and if I remove the disc test fail... so the BIOS sees it, but when I get to the windows installation, Windows is unable to find a drive to install on.

I google a certain number of things, but what I found doing the litle is meaningless, as it said that it should be a 256 GB for the BIOS drive to see, but it doesn't seem to be the problem.

I had to use the drivers when I install disks to a RAID controller and which seems to be what windows 7 is looking for here, but too sholdnt happen.

I'd appreciate help if there is to be

At any time.

I am pleased to have been of assistance.

On a newer platform, I think any SSD will work.

On the largest, it's a crap shoot.

As I wrote yesterday, I have a HP 6930p notebook with the same chipset that you work the CQ50, and I installed a 330 Intel 120 GB SSD in this one and it works great.

I noticed in the specifications of the HP 6930p, which was the first company PC HP 'officially' supported for one SSD.

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