Hard drive swapping issue GE60 2OC

So i bought this new MSI GE60 2OC laptop and the only rly negative point with it is its HDD, cause I'm used to SSD now.
Thus i decided to upgrade the laptop with my SSD from my old laptop which is an OCZ agility 3 240g. So i plug it in my laptop nothing goes wrong just like i have done it before.
Then i start the laptop and it goes straight into bios menu where you set boot option and such, fine i thought and checked if it was in ACHI mode,
so i saved and exited then after i saved and exited it rebooted and went to the same bios boot menu again. now i got nervous and check all the setting and they were correct and it keeps looping like this every time u exit it the menus.
tried several boot option and switch to legacy from UEFI then it booted but dunno if it is the correct way to do it .
So i swapped it back to UEFI to get it back for my HDD.(Legacy boot thing might be the correct way pls say if that works, cause haven't red into it that much yet).
Now i thought it was broken so i switched back to the HDD and it worked perfectly and i tried the same thing with my dads SSD an samsung SSD Basic 840-Series 250GB
 but got the same loop and have searched forums and so on but i have no clue why it get stuck there, it's like the laptop don't find the SSD in bios only the HDD. Any ideas of how i should proceed would be awesome.

Hello Odeen,
I assume you have the HDD plugged out/removed when you have your SSD inserted in the laptop? If you have plugged it in, try setting the boot order in the BIOS to HDD first!
If you have your HDD unplugged, you are not using an MSATA but just the Sata 3 for the SSD because you only have 1 SATA slot right? The SSD doesn't have the proper Windows files and/or proper boot files to boot to Windows, therefore it boots into the boot menu (I think) You should take an bootable USB/DVD (DVD is recommended) and put the bios into UEFI mode for a Windows 8 DVD or you should put it in LEGACY mode when installing Windows 7, for Windows 7 install it's a bit harder but I have a tutorial on that topic on this forum... Let's say that you're going to install Windows 8: go to the bios and turn off secure boot and fast boot and enable the boot mode in UEFI, boot the Windows 8 DVD in UEFI mode (when seeing the MSI logo press F11) and select the boot device in the Boot Menu, now your Windows 8 Installer should load the Windows files. Select your SSD (do not format it in Windows so if you haven't done a format yet go make a Parted Magic bootable USB/DVD and do a secure-erase on the SSD (tons of tutorials about that on the interwebz) Now install Windows 8 on your SSD and there you go, Windows 8 installed on your SSD in UEFI mode. Everything should work fine from then...
Hope I helped you out! 

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