need some help please with booting from SSD in caddy

[mmoalem]

hi there - got my first SSD only t o find out that to replace the drive on my dell inspiron will need complete disassembly of the laptop down to the motherboard. so i have put it in a caddy that replaces the dvd drive. it is recognised but after migrating the OS partition to it it wont boot as it is not recognised by the BIOS as a bootable drive.
so i came across PLOP but cant figure out how to get it to work to boot from the SSD...

[Elmar]

hi,
at first, how did you migrate the os and what os is it?

elmar

[mmoalem]

hi there and thanks for the reply
the OS is windows 7 home premium 64bit
i have tried different methods of migrating. through command console and using paragon migrate to ssd. I believe the issue is in the bios (i have updated it too ) - it lists the drive as SATA ODD rather than SDB.
i have also tried EasyBCD to add entry pointing to partition F: (the drive letter windows allocated to my SSD) but trying to boot it throws an error of not finding winload.exe (it is there)
in regard to PLOP - all i have done was run InstallToBootMenu.bat and than boot into it i have only 3 partition options HDA1-HDA3. ihave used the options to add HDB1 but this didnt go anywhere...

[Elmar]

when the bios does not detect the hard disk correct, then the plop boot manager is not able to work with the hard disk.

[mmoalem]

thanks for this - at least it saves me fiddling with it till end of time.
cheers
michel