Post by Stella on Feb 6, 2022 20:36:53 GMT
This is not directly Bodhi related - but a hardware issue. So I have a new laptop (nearly new - about 10 months old). Works well. Has a 500gb ssd. It came with Windows 10. So the first thing I wanted to do was upgrade the drive to 1tb, transfer all my files and dual boot with Bodhi. But it seems this SSD is part SSD and part Optane memory (32gb). Did a fair bit of reading up about and ascertained that before doing a system image or replacing a drive you needed to disable optane in the software installed. Which I did. Made a system image, took the back off, replaced the drive with the 1tb (nvme not an optane one). Reinstalled the image. All went fine. Except then it wouldn't boot. Error message saying "Inaccessible boot device". This went round and round in a loop. So I checked bios but nothing else there to be disabled and very little info about optane.
It's not just the new hard drive that won't boot either - nothing would boot on it then either - bootable usb's or my external dvd drive couldn't boot anything either. So I put the original optane SSD back in and it works fine.
Now this optane thing sounds to be a real hassle so I would prefer to replace with a non optane SSD as I had bought. So I can install anything easily and don't have to worry about disabling optane before backing up. But seems to me it won't accept another drive. Lots of googling says you are supposed to be able to replace the Optane SSd with any M.2 drive providing you disable optane before doing so (which I did and it definitely was disabled).
Does anyone have any experience of this or anything I could try to get the new ssd to boot? The new SSD is absolutely fine. And when first installed it clearly accepted booting from a Windows media usb to enable an external hard drive to install the image. Only after the image was on the hard drive would it refuse to boot anything.
