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morecluelesstha
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January 15th, 2017 06:00
Cannot move an alien formatted hd to any other computer (non-alien)
What is stopping or interfering with the process? Partitioning? Something specific to alien? Have tried an alien ssd drive on a dell laptop and a couple of other computers. It works fine on alien but is not recognised elsewhere.
Please advise.
Thank-you.
AAA737flyer
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Posted January 16th, 2017 05:00
Acronis has a product that might help you with your issue. It allows drives to be installed into different non similar systems.
Having the need to update my M.2 NVMe SSD to 1GB from Alienware's 256GB, the biggest hurdle I had was the RAID Controller is always set on by default and the newer SSD wasn't detected. So had to do a fresh install of windows 10 AFTER creating an image with Acronis and saving the image onto the Data drive. Once Windows 10 was installed simply used Acronis to reimage the new SSD. So check what the BIOS has set for the raid.
Tesla1856
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Posted January 15th, 2017 14:00
I can't think of anything other than just a general component incompatibility. Alienware computers (you don't mention which model) are not special in that way.
A moved HDD or SSD should appear in (at least) the BIOS detection. Of course, interfaces must match.
What would happen if I connect a PCIe M.2 SSD to an SATA-only M.2 port or vice-versa?
If the host system doesn’t support the PCIe protocol, the PCIe M.2 SSD will most likely not been seen by the BIOS and therefore would be incompatible with the system. Similarly, with an SATA M.2 SSD installed into a socket supporting PCIe M.2 SSDs only, the SATA M.2 SSD would not be usable.
And in general ... these days you can not move a drive from one computer to another (as is) and expect it to boot and work. Wipe the drive of all existing partitions and then do a clean Windows install from scratch (aka Nuke-and-Pave).
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