Hi there, i have a Dell XPS 15 9560 laptop with an M.2 NVME SSD (SK hynix 512Gb) i wanted to upgrade to a Samsung 970 Evo 1Tb drive so i bought the drive, bought an enclosure connected it all together and used Macrium Reflect to copy my data from my old drive to my new one.
this worked flawlessly, the enclosure uses USB C so it was done in about 40 min, i then switched the drives and the Dell booted up with the new samsung drive as if nothing had changed it was about as smooth as it could be.
but i then was left with an enclosure and a 512 drive that i thought would make a nice external drive. except every time i try to use it Disk Manager says that the drive is not initialized and when i try to initialize it i get a "fatal hardware error"
putting the old drive back in the laptop it works fine, meaning its not the drive. i put the samsung in the external enclosure and booted the laptop from that meaning the enclosure works, i was then able to format the old drive using the M.2 port on the motherboard. but again putting it in the enclosure doesn't work.
is there some kind of security that prevents the drive from being read outside the Dell? is there anything i can do to turn this drive into something useful?
both the drive and the enclosure work fully, i have tested them in every way i can, they just don't work together.
thanks for the help
this worked flawlessly, the enclosure uses USB C so it was done in about 40 min, i then switched the drives and the Dell booted up with the new samsung drive as if nothing had changed it was about as smooth as it could be.
but i then was left with an enclosure and a 512 drive that i thought would make a nice external drive. except every time i try to use it Disk Manager says that the drive is not initialized and when i try to initialize it i get a "fatal hardware error"
putting the old drive back in the laptop it works fine, meaning its not the drive. i put the samsung in the external enclosure and booted the laptop from that meaning the enclosure works, i was then able to format the old drive using the M.2 port on the motherboard. but again putting it in the enclosure doesn't work.
is there some kind of security that prevents the drive from being read outside the Dell? is there anything i can do to turn this drive into something useful?
both the drive and the enclosure work fully, i have tested them in every way i can, they just don't work together.
thanks for the help
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