Installing Mavericks on second internal Hard Drive (SSD)

I've recently installed a second hard drive in my 15" 2011 MacBook Pro using the Optibay drive replacement. I've put a 120 GB solid state drive in place of the CD drive. I have been attempting to install OSX Mavericks on it, but have been unsuccessful. The drive currently has no data on it, and has been reformatted several times to re-attempt the installation. Each time I have tried to install mavericks on the extra SSD in the optibay drive, I have received this error:
"Install Failed: OS X could not be installed on your computer. OS X can't be installed on the disk because a recovery system can't be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more" and it only gives me the option to restart the computer.
After I visited the site I tried the suggested steps in both of the articles linked to on the page, but still no success. I am not running RAID on the drive. It is brand new and has been in the laptop for about a month. It hasn't been used at all. I've also tried creating a bootable flash drive, but startup disk will not recognize the flash drive or the other drive in the computer to start up from.
I was thinking of possibly taking the SATA drive out (where my OS Mavericks currently resides) and replacing it with the SSD to force it to start up there or the flash drive. Would that be the logical next step here?
This is what I am trying to do: I want to have all of my OS and software on the solid state so it will be quicker, but I will store most of my data on the SATA drive that came with the computer.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Winston

I am also facing similar issue with 2011 late july 13 mac book pro with 256gb  intel 520 ssd (runs the OSX)<pertioned 119 for mac, 119 for boot camp running oem win8.1) at main bay, 750 gb WD hdd on optical bay (where Home folder is moved). Basicall SSF mainly for apps and os. Where as home folder remain in WD HDD.
With snow leopard it's absolutely a performer. boot up less than 15 second, sleep to wake instant. WIN 8.1 superb too..no fass at all.
Intel 6 Series Chipset:
disk0s1:
  Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
  BSD Name:          disk0s1
  Content:          EFI
MacPro:
  Capacity:          119.2 GB (119,197,646,848 bytes)
  Available:          75.01 GB (75,012,960,256 bytes)
  Writable:          Yes
  File System:          Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:          disk0s2
  Mount Point:          /
  Content:          Apple_HFS
  Volume UUID:
Recovery HD:
  Capacity:          650 MB (650,002,432 bytes)
  BSD Name:          disk0s3
  Content:          Apple_Boot
  Volume UUID:
BOOTCAMP:
  Capacity:          120 GB (119,999,037,440 bytes)
  Available:          84.87 GB (84,866,392,064 bytes)
  Writable:          No
  File System:          NTFS
  BSD Name:          disk0s4
  Mount Point:          /Volumes/BOOTCAMP
  Content:          Microsoft Basic Data
  Volume UUID:
Intel 6 Series Chipset:
  Vendor:          Intel
  Product:          6 Series Chipset
  Link Speed:          6 Gigabit
  Negotiated Link Speed:          3 Gigabit
  Physical Interconnect:          SATA
  Description:          AHCI Version 1.30 Supported
WDC WD7500BPKT-00PK4T0:
  Capacity:          750.16 GB (750,156,374,016 bytes)
  Model:          WDC WD7500BPKT-00PK4T0                 
  Revision:          01.01A01
  Serial Number:          
  Native Command Queuing:          Yes
  Queue Depth:          32
  Removable Media:          No
  Detachable Drive:          No
  BSD Name:          disk1
  Rotational Rate:          7200
  Medium Type:          Rotational
  Partition Map Type:          GPT (GUID Partition Table)
  S.M.A.R.T. status:          Verified
  Volumes:
disk1s1:
  Capacity:          209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes)
  BSD Name:          disk1s1
  Content:          EFI
Data:
  Capacity:          749.81 GB (749,812,400,128 bytes)
  Available:          329.73 GB (329,727,766,528 bytes)
  Writable:          Yes
  File System:          Journaled HFS+
  BSD Name:          disk1s2
  Mount Point:          /Volumes/Data
  Content:          Apple_HFS
  Volume UUID:
Now while upgrading to Marverick, its says my SSD is locked even though its writable, and only availble drive for installation is WD HDD! Which i don't want at all, then no point of having SSD on board!!
I did tried to install Marverick as packageinstaller, but its still find my SSD is locked.
Any flocks facing the same senario? any though will be welcome.
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