Question I’ve got an ASUS F1704z and got a crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD

[Dan3006]

I’ve got an ASUS F1704z and got a crucial P3 PCIe 3.0 NVMe M.2 SSD but I can’t find an extra slot. So how would you go about installing it?
I wasn’t sure what to do so I removed the one in it and put in the other one and started it. I got a page that I could test everything so I did but after that there was no where else to go.
You could save and exit but when you do it just restarts and goes back to that page.
I put the other back in until I can figure out how to do it.

 

[zinkles]

"that page" is probably the BIOS. it will continue restarting to the BIOS because it doesn't have an OS to boot. Your previous OS (presumably windows) was in the SSD you removed. When installing the new one, there's no OS in the new SSD so it goes to the BIOS.

You should reinstall windows on it (through an installation media) if you want to use it. You cant use it as a separate storage drive without an OS (unless you have another drive thats connected by other means which has an OS).

Your laptop does have another slot as mentioned by its product page, which I couldnt find where it is located, sadly.

 

[Dan3006]

Thank you very much.
I got the Laptop in December but it did not come with any kind of windows disk of any kind. Leaves me kind of lost and confused.
I backed up files on a USB like the crucial site said to do but that doesn’t really help anything with the installation I don’t think

 

[zinkles]

Thank you very much.
I got the Laptop in December but it did not come with any kind of windows disk of any kind. Leaves me kind of lost and confused.
I backed up files on a USB like the crucial site said to do but that doesn’t really help anything with the installation I don’t think

You can make a installation media by yourself. You'll need a USB stick.

You should put your previous SSD into the laptop to be able to go to windows and do this.
Follow this guide to create the installation media.
After creating it, you can turn the laptop off, remove the old SSD, plug your new SSD in and install windows onto that by booting from the Installation media you created.
See how to install windows from installation media if you're having troubles.

Good Luck!

 

[Dan3006]

Thank you very much for the help!

 

[Dan3006]

I made the usb installation media and started it but the darn thing showed two partitions, both said disk 0 and I could not install on a partition with zero.
now i'm getting a bit scared
I'm never quite sure which partition I'm supposed to be installing on but I'm guessing the one that says system?
I have found a couple of things online. Both say to bring up a command prompt, shift+F10, and diskpart, (which mine shows
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 238 GB 0 B *
) then select disk 0, then type clean. One also adds convert gpt


Does this sound right? Or am I way off?

 

[USAFRet]

If you're trying to install a new OS on this drive, here:

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

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When it asks where...that is when you Delete all existing partitions, and continue with a blank drive.
See section II.

 

[Dan3006]

If you're trying to install a new OS on this drive, here:

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

If you are looking for the Windows 11 Clean install tutorial, you can find that here: Windows 11 Clean install tutorial (Click here) Otherwise, welcome to the Windows 10 Clean install tutorial This tutorial is intended to help you, step by step, to perform a clean install of Windows...

forums.tomshardware.com

When it asks where...that is when you Delete all existing partitions, and continue with a blank drive.
See section II.

I'll check it out.
Thank you