I have a week old laptop and decided to upgrade my storage space. Currently this laptop came with a 512gb m.2 nvme ssd. I have an empty slot for sata ssd so I bought a 2tb crucial sata ssd.
Here's where it gets odd.
I don't have the sata cord that was supplied with the laptop atm, so I decided to use a USB enclosed box with the crucial sata ssd in it, connected via USB 3.0.
I use partition wizard free version to clone the m.2 to the crucial ssd. After successfully cloning the m.2 I take out the m.2 and proceed to boot via USB the crucial.
Everything in the bios is set correctly to boot from the USB, but it gets a recovery screen when I try and boot with only the usb.
If I insert the m.2 ssd it will then boot fine from the USB.
In short, without the m.2 inserted, the USB SSD will not boot at all.
So what gives? What am I missing??
1: is it possible that because it's not connected to the main board it's not letting it but right?
2: why would removing the m.2 drive affect the booting of the USB?
3: is it possible there is some sort of restriction that the laptop company has set where it absolutely will not boot the sata ssd without the m.2 ssd? I've never heard of such a thing, but I'm my years of IT I am always learning new and crazy things.
If anyone knows I'd be grateful for solutions.
Here's where it gets odd.
I don't have the sata cord that was supplied with the laptop atm, so I decided to use a USB enclosed box with the crucial sata ssd in it, connected via USB 3.0.
I use partition wizard free version to clone the m.2 to the crucial ssd. After successfully cloning the m.2 I take out the m.2 and proceed to boot via USB the crucial.
Everything in the bios is set correctly to boot from the USB, but it gets a recovery screen when I try and boot with only the usb.
If I insert the m.2 ssd it will then boot fine from the USB.
In short, without the m.2 inserted, the USB SSD will not boot at all.
So what gives? What am I missing??
1: is it possible that because it's not connected to the main board it's not letting it but right?
2: why would removing the m.2 drive affect the booting of the USB?
3: is it possible there is some sort of restriction that the laptop company has set where it absolutely will not boot the sata ssd without the m.2 ssd? I've never heard of such a thing, but I'm my years of IT I am always learning new and crazy things.
If anyone knows I'd be grateful for solutions.