Laptop not detect any SSD drive after trying to upgrade SSD

schwarzennegger

Good Morning community,
Hope you all enjoying the weekend..

I tried to upgrade 256GB ssd to 2TB Crucial P310 Nvme SSD in my Lenovo Yoga 910 laptop (If you check crucial website it will say 2TB is not combatable but it does as many user using it}
To make it work i tried changes in BIOS settings etc nothing worked,so changed the default settings to BIOS now.

Problem now is my laptop is not even detecting the original 256GB SSD card which it came with! It keep saying insert bootable media and then click ok!

Quick google search said to update Intel Rapid storage driver which i tried to install through USB but its not installing even though it say combatable but not installing when i click the Install button.

Forget about upgrading, first i want to make the laptop workable with the default drive ,kindly advise please,Thankyou.

gregalus

schwarzennegger
I have an X1 Yoga with a 7300U processor. I checked the BIOS, and the only thing I can think of is that you changed something in the secure boot settings.

Analayzer

schwarzennegger I don't know how it is with laptops, but do you have the Clear CMOS option? It is setting to the default values but with hardware, with removing the battery or rewiring the pins for clearning CMOS. Have you tried upgrading the BIOS to the latest version? I am not a fan of laptops, they are very sensitive to everything. A necessary evil.

gregalus

schwarzennegger
This incompatibility is mechanical and related to installation, so you probably haven't damaged anything. The Crucial ssd is simply too short, but it should work fine—you just need to secure it properly.

troh

schwarzennegger you need to always check first:

all mainboard specs
hwinfo
do a research about your concerns before start

Now, reset your BIOS to default settings. You'll see later how to proceed.

straycat19

You mentioned that you already reset the bios to default settings so the only thing left to do is clear the CMOS by taking the battery out. I have one note on Lenovos that says to clear the CMOS you need to leave the battery out 8 to 15 hours. Can't verify that because in all the years we had Lenovos we never had to clear a CMOS.

gregalus

straycat19
Why would he do that when he can access the BIOS and make the necessary changes or restore the default settings?

straycat19

gregalus He said in his original post he already reset the default settings in BIOS.

skopas

...sounds like your chip bios went awol. As other stated, clear bios. Take out battery for few seconds.

That should do the trick. If not, might need to update firmware on your mainboard. Good luck.

chitek

Is the SSD even being seen by the hardware? If you can boot Linux from a USB drive, you might try $ lspci to see if the drive is being detected on the bus. Then $ lsblk to see if's recognized as a block device.

Ardella

schwarzennegger i tried to install through USB but its not installing even though it say combatable but not installing when i click the Install button.

No... You would need to EXTRACT the required drivers on another PC (you will see .inf and a bunch of other files once done).
The drivers should be for correct OS version you are trying to install (Win 10, 11, etc). Typically you may see folders for Windows 7, 10, 11, etc. after extraction.
Then you provide those drivers at this screen (during Windows install after boot up from Bootable Windows INstallation Media):

Meanwhile, the drive itself will not be visible in BIOS/UEFI until the drivers are installed.

gregalus

I don't really understand.

[Login to see the link] replaced the 256 GB system drive with a 2 TB one. Why he changed anything in the BIOS, I don't know.
(I checked my 2nd generation ThinkPad X1 Yoga – the drive isn't visible in the BIOS at all, which is a bit strange. This is probably the first computer I've ever seen where the drive isn't detected in the BIOS, but that's how it is. It was my first time looking into the ThinkPad's BIOS, and I bought it a long time ago, but I rarely use it.)

I don't know the drive, but I assume that aside from mounting issues (it's shorter), there are no other problems that would prevent it from working.

Since he changed something in the BIOS, that means he has access to the BIOS, so clearing it by removing the battery or shorting it doesn't seem to make sense.

Likewise, I'm not sure what installing the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) drivers is supposed to achieve.

From Intel's website:

Configuration and maintenance of RAID 0/1/5/10

Changes for Intel® Optane™ Memory.

Intel® VMD support on 12th up to 15th Generation platforms only with an Intel® VMD capable BIOS.

I could be wrong, but it seems to me that if no damage (whether mechanical or caused by electrostatic discharge) occurred during the drive replacement, the only reason the computer isn't booting from the old drive might be related solely to the Secure Boot settings.

P.S.
It was bothering me a bit, so I checked it out. On my ThinkPad, a message appears during startup saying that to interrupt the boot process, you need to press Enter. A menu appears—which I obviously didn’t read 😂—allowing you to enter the BIOS, select the boot drive, and also run a hardware test (F10). After selecting it, you can test the laptop, and there’s also the option to test the drive, which is listed correctly there.

jshm2

Sometimes you need to insert your new drive externally into a working machine.

Then do a diskpart in command prompt, then list disk, and select your disk, then type clean.

As for your machine not booting with the old media, you probably need to do a "restore defaults" in BIOS.

There is also the possibility you've surged the drive and it's now bust. See if the old media still works in another machine.

gregalus

I just remembered that about a year ago, I replaced the original 256GB Samsung drive in a laptop just like mine with a 1TB Kingston drive. There were no issues at all. It’s a 2280 drive, so it was a perfect fit without any hassle.

schwarzennegger

Evening Guys, hope you all well community : : 🇦 Thank you so much for your replies ,over whelmed by the response what an amazing community we have..

1) Yes i was searching for the cmos battery, i couldn't find it, may be beneath the mother board i think.
Any way, i don't know how, but at least for now it identified the 256GB it came with , so installed windows again on it.

2)But its still not detecting the 2TB Crucil p310 ssd, google says this particular model laptop is picky with 2TB SSD as its fine with Samsung SSD, also some users made to work even with the crucial 2TB nvme 4th pci4 ,even though their official site says not compatable.

3)Other option i have is my latest laptop ASUS UX563 is PCI4 compatable, so i have to swap this crucial drive there and take the one in there to the Lenovo laptop.
Before that i have to back up everything etc also i have to check if this crucial drive is shows up in the Asus laptop !

Analayzer

Laptops are very sensitive to new hardware, disks, memory... That's why you have to consult the manufacturer's website about what can be inserted into it. Otherwise, it will not work with unsupported hardware.

wyvernone

What is the brand of the 256 GB ssd you have? You'd think SSDs are universal but laptop makers do not support all brands of SSDs. When I had an Asus g531w it would not detect a brand new WD or KIOXIA SSD at all. And these were known problems. Good thing I was able to refund the drive to Amazon. But a Samsung drive worked so I went with that.

schwarzennegger

There is no name on it, but it says samsung.com/semiconductors......so this is the reason these guys happy with Samsung ssd's but having issues with other brands...Have a good weekend guys.
Have to dig a bit how some users managed to use other brand ssd in this particular model laptop ,or have to back completely the Asus laptop and put this ssd there...

chitek

schwarzennegger Could it be a "NoNameO" SSD made with some Samsung components, but not using certain key Samsung elements like the controller, or even a full Samsung design?

Ardella

[Login to see the link] Did you solve your problem yet? Did you check [Login to see the link]?

I fixed a similar Lenovo model last year that had this exact issue. If you followed the steps I suggested carefully, they should have fixed it.

The drive won't appear in BIOS/UEFI until you load the drivers on the Windows install screen. Normally BIOS shows attached drives, but on newer PCs it can hide them if a RAID or similar driver is required and not yet loaded.

If you still want help, PM me and tell me an approximate time you'll be online so we can sort it quickly via chat.

schwarzennegger

Ardella
Evening Brother, how are you? sorry for delayed response, day off tomorrow finally! Just checked your post, i did tried this, dowloaded the driver from Lenova website, copied in usb stick ,when i boot windows from usb and tried to install it gave me options to load drivers, yes it does find the compatible drive from the usb drive but when i clicked to install nothing happened!
Thank you so much for your kindness offering to come online.. i am happy to give a last try..any time which suits you bro.. i am Uk based..i will adapt to your time .Thank you.

gregalus

Ardella The drive won't appear in BIOS/UEFI until you load the drivers on the Windows install screen.

Sorry, I just read this now. Are you sure about that? Because it seems impossible to me—it would mean, for example, that installing Linux on a laptop like that isn’t possible. Besides, that would be pretty illogical. I don’t know how it works on a [Login to see the link] laptop, but on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga, the drive doesn’t show up in the BIOS either. It only appears after selecting hardware testing by pressing F10.

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P.S.
The BIOS on the Yoga 910 should be similar.