[SOLVED] Looking to change boot drives on an Acer Aspire 5 (A515-43-R5RE)

[Nuklear]

Hey all!

I'm new to this forum, so any sort of answer is appreciated!

The basics of this project are fairly simple. I want to take my Acer Aspire 5 Slim and change the windows boot drive to a SATA SSD from the nVME SSD, as I plan to use the m.2 slot for an eGPU. Is it possible to change the windows boot drive on this laptop? Thanks!

 

[USAFRet]

Is there space and a connection for a SATA drive in that?

 

[Nuklear]

Is there space and a connection for a SATA drive in that?

yes, there is, in the top left.

 

[USAFRet]

How much stuff do you have on the current drive?

The best way would be to take out the current NVMe drive, and do a clean install on a new SATA III SSD.

 

[Nuklear]

How much stuff do you have on the current drive?

The best way would be to take out the current NVMe drive, and do a clean install on a new SATA III SSD.

Perfect, I didn’t know if I could actually do a clean install on a laptop mobo. Thank you so much!

 

[USAFRet]

Perfect, I didn’t know if I could actually do a clean install on a laptop mobo. Thank you so much!

No reason why not.

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