Why won't my laptop start up with an HDD instead of an optical drive?

Question

Hard disks

Good afternoon everyone!

The problem is this: I decided to insert a new SSD instead of the old hard drive, and insert the old HDD through optibey into the optical drive. After installing the system on the SSD, I insert the HDD into the optical drive, reboot, and the computer does not turn on (from the word at all) - a black screen. After a couple of hours, I found a way to turn it on - I pulled out the hard drive from the DVD, the battery from the laptop, disconnected the charger and connected it again. Only then did it work. What could be the problem?

I tried switching the toggle switch on the optibe - it did not help. When Windows turns on without a hard drive, I insert it into the drive, but it is not displayed. I insert the drive back, reboot, after the reboot I take out the drive and insert the optibey - bingo, the laptop sees it. Then I reboot, and again the same carousel.

WIN10 system, Dell Inspiron 5558 laptop. In the BIOS, I removed the priority of Internal HDD, DVD / CD from Boot Options.

Answer 1

I insert optibey - bingo, the laptop sees it.

Check the HDD, clean the HDD - so that it does not try to boot from it, find and throw another HDD, swap SSD and HDD, .....
Something is not friendly with something.
Black screen and freeze at startup - the laptop is trying to determine the hardware, but can't. So faulty drives and SSDs hang computers.

Answer 2

Dell needs its own optibey, on Ali only one seller has one, I ran into the same thing. And then I put another opti and it all worked, also a Dell laptop.

Answer 3

If it's about the current consumption of the HDD and DVD-ROM, then swap the SSD and HDD in places. The SSD does not have gluttony in terms of power at startup.