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Problem description: I have an Acer Aspire E15 e5-575g that I wanted to upgrade the boot drive on. It has two slots, one is a standard 2.5" bay that I've had a 1 TB SSD in for a while just fine, the other is an M.2 slot with an M key (one notch) that came with a 256gb B key (two notches) SSD from the factory. Reading online, it states in several places that the M.2 slot is only compatible with drives up to a 512gb capacity, but I don't understand why. I installed a 1 TB NVMe SSD (M key) in the slot that fits fine. First I tried to do a recovery backup image transfer, which didn't work and led to a boot loop, then I tried to reinstall Windows 10 from scratch (with recovery media I made from inside the good installation) which still didn't work, leading a slightly different looking boot loop. I'm typing this from an installation of Linux Mint that works just fine on this computer with the new 1 TB drive. I can certainly understand if somehow there's a weird driver or configuration problem where this Acer simply won't take a large drive in Windows for some reason, or if this would somehow blow up if I ever crammed it full of more than 600gb of files or something, but I'm pretty baffled otherwise. If the answer is to buy a 500gb drive instead and use that, sure I guess, but I don't want to buy it and run into the same problem. Also kind of a meh upgrade in that case. I installed Windows the second time using "recovery media," which might have corrupted system files or something, I could try a full reinstallation with a completely fresh downloaded image, but I kind of don't want that to be the answer because I don't actually want to go through configuring a fresh install and getting everything set up again. Attempted fixes: Recovery from a backup image, then reinstallation from recovery media, then installation of two flavors of linux. I can reinsert the old boot drive just fine, I haven't hosed the UEFI or anything. Recent changes: The new SSD is a Samsung 980 M.2 SSD. I'm removing the other 2.5" SSD while doing installations to make sure I don't accidentally overwrite it, but it boots fine either way with the original boot SSD. -- Operating system: Windows 10 System specs: Acer Aspire E15 e5-575g Location: USA I have Googled and read the FAQ: Yes
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Nov 11, 2022 22:56
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I'd make sure you're on the latest motherboard BIOS and see if that makes any difference: https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/drivers-and-manuals
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Nov 12, 2022 23:00
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