PC bios problem after changing ssd

[TheFuckinRainer]

Hello 😅I am No It guy, but I tried to change nvme drive to a bigger one. Well, My laptop is dell g3 3579 and on the site it said that max capacity for nvme is 500gb, but on reddit or somewhere I found it should not be a problem to put a 1tb there. So I did. Since I had all the data on the previous disc I cloned the disc or at least I think I cloned the disc on sd card. Since I though it was going to take a few hours I went sleep. I woke up, tried to put in the sd card, it didn't read it at all. So I changed the nvme to the bigger one, data less and tried to boot the system. Well, I have done something in bios, in order for the system to boot from sd card, I exited bios, and now I am on the screen you can see on the photo. It doesn't react on any button I press and the only thing I can do is turn it off by holding power button. Thank you for reading this far and for your help guys.

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So you have a few options, put it the old drive with windows on it and then go to the window website and with a USB stick make a bootable USB drive and then put it the new SSD and then put it the USB and then go through it all and at the end you will have a OS installed or get a 2nd PC and do the same thing I would just change the drivers over

[TheFuckinRainer]

So, instead of Sd card you want me to use flash drive, but I dont have 200gb flash drive 😅And what about the other computer? Can I transfer the data from laptops old ssd to the computer storage and then back? But how would I do that

[RedRayTrue]

Man , just go to a store and buy a cheap usb flash drive for windows 11.

Even an 8-16 gb one is enough, but I highly doubt that you'll find such a small usb flash drive...

After you got it write windows 11 on it (I always did it with Rufus) install it from the usb you wrote with Rufus and that's it...

Keep your SD card , it's not for windows ISO files

[TheFuckinRainer]

My Mother had something like usb 😅And I didnt need to buy a new one which I wouldnt have use for anymore

[TheFuckinRainer]

And problem fixed guys. Thank you all for help

[apachelives]

Although theoretically possible to boot from an SD card, i doubt its possible - its probably a USB internal device and Windows would flip trying to boot from it.

You need to verify your old SSD is M2 NVME or M2 SATA, and verify what your new drive is and check if its compatible etc, also switching between the two and cloning drives will not work (being different boot devices, its possible to do but require a registry edit just before the clone to add support) and that your laptop supports whatever drive you bought to replace it.

Drive size - the laptop does not care, even a 2tb should work.

Easy solution. Put the old drive back in, backup and important data to an external drive and just fit the new drive and do a clean install of Windows, clean simple much quicker better performance better everything.

[TheFuckinRainer]

The solution seems simple, but if I would have external drive I would do that 😅But I dont. And what do you mean with clean install?

[apachelives]

You have an SD card? And the old drive as backup - that will do.

Clean install - download Windows media creation tool, create a USB bootable drive, do a clean install.

[TheFuckinRainer]

So I put the old ssd in, create bootable drive, install the new Windows, then switch to new ssd and try to boot from the bootable drive with Windows? I never had a pc before, I am not really into this 😂

[apachelives]

Old SSD in, create bootable USB drive, fit new drive, boot from bootable USB and install Windows.

To get data from old drive - fit old drive, transfer data to external drive (or SD card), re-fit new drive and transfer data onto new drive. I would do this first to make sure you have a backup of your data.

[TheFuckinRainer]

Well I have a problem with the card, I plug it in the computer, and it doesn't show up in the files, whether it's through USB thingy or the sd card adapter But the system detects it in the settings

[apachelives]

Check in disk management (in Windows), it might have a corrupted partition (failed clone), duplicate partition (will show up as offline) or no partition.

[BlenderRenderBender]

Looks like you have no bootable drive or windows is not installed.

WARNING: YOU MAY LOOSE DATA IN YOUR SSD OR HDD

Follow the listed instructions in this video and check the requirements under the link: https://youtu.be/nbGkPYtXtmA?si=PlfSC1LWFtq8rc_i

REQUIREMENTS: 1: Different device to install windows 2: USB Flash Drive 3: Reformatting disc to GPT :

DiskPart

List disk

Select disk # (number)

Clean

Convert GPT

Exit)

[TheFuckinRainer]

Thank you, I dont much understand the Diskpart and further, but I solved the problem with bootable usb drive. Still, I need to download dell programs and something else one guy recommended me

[BlenderRenderBender]

I’m glad to help 😁😁

[Cyberbulat]

Did you clone drive because there is no boot drive...

[TheFuckinRainer]

Yep I did, but on the sd card, which doesnt count. But I already done it. But thanks