New SSD recognized in Windows but not BIOS

Hello! I just put a Crucial M550 SSD in my HP Pavilion dv7-6195us notebook (Windows 7 64-bit). I have two hard drive slots so I left my 500GB Toshiba SATA drive with all my files in and simply cloned everything over to the SSD once I had installed it. The clone was successful, I can see that all my Windows files (including loaders), documents, etc. moved to the SSD. It appears in My Computer as well as Disk Management and other areas of Windows (still running on the SATA), but for some reason not the BIOS. I cannot change the boot order without it appearing in BIOS, which is the whole reason I got a SSD. Any suggestions would be very helpful!
(I'm not sure if it is useful information, but I did try making the SSD a primary partition.)
BIOS is showing (in the boot order menu):
Notebook drive
CD/DVD Drive
USB CD/DVD Drive

Swap the position of the drives. The secondary bay is not bootable so does not show up in the boot order. 
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