Booting from msata ssd

In my Y500, I installed a samsumg 850 evo 250 GB msata ssd.I made it a GPT drive and cloned all bootsectors and the whole system from my HDD. So the Msata is now identical to the HDD (minus de D-partition for data.) But I can't boot from it. In the bios the windows-bootmanager on the ssd is recognized, but it does not function. I thought I have to rename the OS partity on the ssd to C, but I can't rename it with any of my partition-managers (on Bootable cd's). Microsoft says that windows change the letter of the os partition to C by itself. ??I tried removing the HDD to force a boot on the ssd, then he want to "recover", but there is no recovery and I dont want to make a clean-install of the windows 8 version of 3 years ago and reinstall all the software. I see on the forum that others got it working, but maybe not by clooning ??How to get my Y500 booting from the sdd, with the clooned OS and all software ??

Thanks for replying. I gave changing the bootconfiguration an other try. although I had done it already.Results: If I use only "legacy" the bios passes both my ssd-drive and my hdd-drive and goes to network-boot (without result of course). If I choose Efi first, and put the windowsbootmanager on SSD on top, he skips it an goes to bootmanager on the HDD.The question still is: How to adapt the windows bootmanager on the ssd to make that it boots the windowspartition on the SSD ??

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I purchased an HP ENVY 15t-j100 with a 1TB drive and 16GB RAM. There is an avaialble mSATA slot in the user area so I purchased a CRUCIAL 240Gb mSATA drive with the intention of installing the WIN 8.1 OS and my programs on the solid state drive and use the slor (5400) hard drive for data.
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