T530 - Move boot partition "SYSTEM_DRV"?

Hi all

I just bought a blue WD 1 TB drive to replace the stock 320 HDD in my T530. I have Win7 installed on an mSATA SSD 256GB. However, when readers to discuss, BIOS recognizes both drives but the laptop will not boot - from SSD or HARD disk.

I suspect this is related to the partition of mysterious "SYSTEM_DRV" on my 320 GB HARD drive. I considered changing the partition tables and the copy of this partition on a score of similar size on the SSD, but I have a bad feeling about messing around with partition editors when I'm positive, not exactly what I'm doing. I have a set of discs of recovery when I first set up the computer, but as far as I KNOW this will restore the laptop to 'presets' which is a configuration that does not start a SSD installed.

I have not really tried something drastic because I thought that I would consult the forum before scribbling with my partitions or try a new installation of Windows. Is there a way I can move (risk free) this partition so he can start fully from the mSATA SSD?

-edit: it should also be noted that I tried to reimage the drive using DriveImage XML, but it doesn't recognize the "SYSTEM_DRV" partition, otherwise who would have seemed failsafe. Is there a tool I need to use what is not 'hot', as a bootable drive?

Another update:

Turns out I have a very inadequate knowledge of the score and the MBR. I downloaded a tool called "EasyBCD" which has an option to 'change the startup disk '. In about 5 seconds, it moves the information on my SSD and prompt to restart the computer. To test this, I removed the HARD drive to see if my cell phone could launch with only the SSD - it can!

I want to thank the community for their support.

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