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    Format replaced system drive - Acer Aspire 3

    I finally got it. I re-installed Windows onto the drive on its original computer via bootable Windows USB. Then plugged that drive into the open SATA port on my Acer Nitro 5. It actually booted into windows on that drive, which I wasn't expecting. Once I switched boot order and booted from...
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    Format replaced system drive - Acer Aspire 3

    I got an Acer Aspire 3 laptop for my parents for $300 and decided to replace the 1tb drive in it with an SSD. That was a task on its own--I used a USB-to-SATA adapter and EaseUS to clone the system drive to the SSD. The new drive wouldn't be recognized as a bootable device until I cloned all...