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May 19th, 2021 20:00

latitude 3580 m.2 disk issues

Following the upgrade parts recomended in the Dell webpage bought a SNP112S/256 G wich is a m.2 disk and the 2.5 HDD BAY SATA to m.2 SSD board, when remove the HDD and connect the ssd instead, the BIOS won't find it nor windows installer. I tried reading lot of post of similar problems, like changing the BIOS parameters. Note that i cannot clone the disk since only one disk can be connected to the laptop nor format since windows installers won't find it also.

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May 20th, 2021 19:00

You would have been better off just installing a regular 2.5" SATA SSD as you will get no additional performance or benefit with the M.2 drive adapter. As for why the drive isn't being recognized, there maybe a potential conflict between the SATA controller and the M.2 adapter, or the M.2 SSD that you're trying to use doesn't support the SATA interface and only supports the NVMe/PCIe interface.

You can buy an inexpensive USB-to-SATA adapter that you can use to temporary connect a second drive externally if you want to clone a drive to another one. This one will work with any 2.5" HDD or SDD.

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May 21st, 2021 05:00

Thanks i will try it and let you know if works.

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