Upgrading Envy 17 3D to SSD

I have an Envy 17 3D, and I wanted to upgrade it to a SSD Boot drive to speed things up and eek out a bit more battery life. I got an OCZ 3 Agility 120 GB SSD, I was able to run through the recovery DVD I created to install Windows 7, but on reboot I now get an "PXE-E61 media test failure" and it fails to boot. When installed as the 2nd drive, I see the drive just fine, including the Windows files.
I've updated to the latest Firmware, 2.15, same issue. Any ideas what might be causing the issue?
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banhien wrote:
It looks like the machine is trying to boot from the network. You can disable this is BIOS.
You are right, it is still in the default config which places the boot order as I recall as 1) Hard Drive, 2) CD/DVD drive, 3) USB, 4) Network.
I'll go ahead and turn this off as I don't see ever using it for a home machine, but it isn't the issue unless there is something weird I am missing, As soon as I replace the original boot drive, it boots fine without changing the boot order. The core issue seems to be a failure to recognize the SSD during the boot process.

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