SSD Crucial M500 is not seen in Windows 8.1 setup but it is seen in Windows 7 setup

Hello,
I have problem with new SSD Crucial M500 on new notebook HP 250 G3 (J0Y29EA).
Notebook has Windows 8.1 and latest BIOS.
I want to replace HDD with SSD.
So I created 4 DVDs with "HP Recovery Media Creation".
Then I format SSD in Disk Management on Windows 7 desktop.
Then I shutdown the notebook, replace HDD with SSD, disable Secure Boot in BIOS and boot from the first DVD. Some kind of Windows system came up and showed message that no disk was found.
I have Windows 8.1 DVD so I tried boot from it. Everything was ok but there was nothing to choose in disk/partition dialog (dialog where I want to install system). I tried to load some drivers from USB flash drive but with no success (maybe wrong drivers). I tried this with Secure Boot disabled and enabled, Legacy mode disabled/enabled. No success. I also tried run console (shift+F10) and list disks in diskpart with message "There are no fixed disks to show". No success.
I tried old SSD Crucial M4 from desktop in notebook and system from this old SSD (Windows 7) boot up in seconds (Legacy mode enabled).
I let the old SSD in notebook and boot from Windows 8.1 DVD and it was shown in disk/partition dialog.
I put the new SSD back in notebook and tried to boot from Windows 7 DVD. New SSD was shown in disk/partition dialog. Installation was completed and Windows 7 boot from new SSD in seconds.
I let the new SSD in notebook boot from Windows 8.1 DVD and no disk was shown to choose.
I tried boot from bootable recovery CD based on Windows 7 and the new SSD was shown in somelike disk manager. I tried boot from ubuntu recovery USB flash drive and the SSD shown too.
I tried combinations with MBR and GPT on new SSD with no success.
It looks for me like Windows 8.1 doesn't like Crucial M500
So I test another Crucial M500 and same results.
Maybe some UEFI problem.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks

I give up and return M500 (I had two drives).
I bought Intel SSD 530 180GB, cloned Windows 8.1 on desktop.
Set SSD windows partition as C: and HDD windows partition as E:.
Put SSD and HDD back to notebook.
Windows boot up from SSD in seconds.
Result: SSD Crucial M500 + HP 250 G3 (J0Y29EA) + Windows 8.1 are not compatible.
I don't know which one to blame, but this combination is problematic.
Intel SSD 530 had some issues too, like windows freezing.
One can be solved with windows update fix it (diag) from http://support.microsoft.com/fixit.
Another one is waking up from sleep mode. It can be partially solved in Power managment, but it's not elegant.
So that's all for now.
Have a nice year.

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I bought Intel SSD 530 180GB, cloned Windows 8.1 on desktop.
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