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Question i am having trouble changing my boot drive on my laptop whenever i change my boot drive to a new one the laptop just gets stuck at asus logo and it do

Dec 28, 2024
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Laptop won't boot from new ssd

i am having trouble changing my boot drive on my laptop whenever i change my boot drive to a new one the laptop just gets stuck at asus logo and it does not boot, even into bios.
Please help somebody i have tried everything.
 
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Exact steps of what you're doing, please.

Start from before you went down this path.
i first of all tried to do simple fresh install on the new drive by just directly replacing the boot drive and installing new os using a bootable drive but as soon as i put the new ssd in the slot the laptop just freezes on the asus logo and nothing happens if i remove the ssd then laptop not only goes into but also the os bootable as well

then i tried using cloning software paid and unpaid nothing worked

i also took the laptop to service center and external shops no luck (one guy did manage to run it but it ran for only a few hours and then it was back to status quo)

the laptop works completely normal when i put the original ssd into it.
 
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i first of all tried to do simple fresh install on the new drive by just directly replacing the boot drive and installing new os using a bootable drive but as soon as i put the new ssd in the slot the laptop just freezes on the asus logo and nothing happens if i remove the ssd then laptop not only goes into but also the os bootable as well

then i tried using cloning software paid and unpaid nothing worked

i also took the laptop to service center and external shops no luck (one guy did manage to run it but it ran for only a few hours and then it was back to status quo)

the laptop works completely normal when i put the original ssd into it.
i also have backup of everything my files on cloud and a extra system image to recover from.
 

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and installing new os using a bootable drive but as soon as i put the new ssd in the slot the laptop just freezes
Not sure what you mean by this.

You put the new drive in first, then boot from your bootable flash drive to install on the new drive.

 
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Not sure what you mean by this.

You put the new drive in first, then boot from your bootable flash drive to install on the new drive.

what i meant is i tried to do a fresh install on the ssd using a bootable drive but the laptop just freezes on the asus logo when the new ssd is installed in the laptop so i can't even do a fresh install