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Mark_Wallace wrote: That depends on the SSD card. Some laptop ones don't use standard SATA connectors, and have to be mounted in the laptop[^].
Don't you have an mSATA/M2 to USB adapter in your kit bag? I have one in my laptop bag at all times along with several other adapters that come in handy.
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Michael Martin wrote: Don't you have an mSATA/M2 to USB adapter in your kit bag?
Not yet.
Give it a couple of days.
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2.5-inch SATA SSDs all have the same cable interface. For the nVME SSD's you can get an appropriate enclosure for those as well. All you have to do is be mindful of the connection type and what type of drive it is (there are apparantly three types, and two? connector types).
I'm assuming that the drive in question is a standard 2.5 inch SATA drive.
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My Dell laptop has an M.2 SSD, so be aware that it is a different connection (ssd is like a horizontal card that slots into a connection on the motherboard and they come in different lengths).
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All of the nVME enclosures I've seen support the three most common drive lengths, so only the interface (SATA, PCIe) and connector type (M or B) seem to matter.
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OriginalGriff wrote: You don't even need an enclosure - you can connect a SSD directly to any desktop that has a spare SATA port and power connector.
Not in a Dell laptop. Dell uses the M.2 interface for their laptop SSDs.
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Did you install grub-efi-bin after the Ubuntu installation. The new boot type ignore device discovery and only search for the catalog inside the small UEFI partition. You can put that on your HDD or SSD, but it needs to be GPT, has bootable flag and a proper GUID. 512 MB is usually enough.
UEFI multiboot is a pain, not because it is impossible, but it requires so many stuff to be done manually.
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Did you install grub-efi-bin after the Ubuntu installation. The new boot type ignore device discovery and only search for the catalog inside the small UEFI partition. You can put that on your HDD or SSD, but it needs to be GPT, has bootable flag and a proper GUID. 512 MB is usually enough.
UEFI multiboot is a pain, not because it is impossible, but it requires so many stuff to be done manually.
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There wasnt even an EFI partition left on the laptop. Seems there was oe on the SSD drive, but the entire drive (also had windows 10 on the c partition) got wiped.
Christ knows how!
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I have had Crucials DIE on me. SO they can go bad.
In fact, the Crucial would BOOT and CRASH.
They had a known bug where after X hours of usage, you were limited to like 10 minutes and it would shut down to protect itself. LMAO, not enough time to back it up... UGH, the pain!
Overall, if you can see the drive in the BIOS, it is responding.
If you are not seeing it in other Operating Systems, it "could" be the driver, or HOW the drive got formatted. Try booting some Backup Software and see what it sees.
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Yeah, I booted with hierens and had a look with diskpart, the SSD had no partitions on it, it had got wiped. So either a banzai windows ip update or failing hardware. At least I know how to fix it now if it screws up again!
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Munchies_Matt wrote: ...but using the latest Hierens bot CD the SSD didnt show up in disk manager...
If that was from within the XP in Hiren's it probably didn't have the drivers that enable your disk controller to be seen.
Check out Sergei Strelec Sergei Strelec - Загрузочные диски[^], look for English version at the end of the description, click it and on the next page scroll down to Downloads, click MEGA, click the big red Download button and Bob's your mother's brother.
Burn to USB and boot to Windows 10 environment so you should be able to see everything on modern hardware.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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It is WIndows PE 10 on the latest Hierens (that works with UEFI), so the same as in your link. So perhaps the SSD is just cache, and not bootable disk. The BIOS only shows one boot option, 'Ubuntu', after that IPv4, and IPv6.
Since I had Ubuntu instaled as the main OS(which had windows boot in grub, and the windows boot then gave me windows 10 or 7), and the BIOS cant find any MBR, it is the ubuntu one which is damaged, so I am looking at trying to repair it, but thanks for the tip
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Hiren updated to Win10 too. Have a look: Hiren's BootCD PE[^]
Quote: Hiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a restored edition of Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64
only problem...Quote: It is being developed for the new age computers, it supports UEFI booting and requires minimum 2 GB RAM.
What I do like most... the old versions list
Old Versions – Hiren's BootCD PE[^]
Kudos for the people supporting the project.
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Nelek wrote: Hiren updated to Win10 too. Have a look: Hiren's BootCD PE[^]
Thank you, I gave up checking a couple of years ago.
Michael Martin
Australia
"I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible."
- Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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You are welcome 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Outside of what has been suggested above, remove the SSD and switch on the laptop to see what happens 
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I saw a new Dell with a small SSD and a larger spinner.
If you have two drives, yes the boot is going to be the ssd.
These are very temporary growing pains as I saw a 500gb ssd for 47 bucks on sale.
It's the end of the mechanical HD. It's been a good run all the way back to the RK05 but good reddens.
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I was going to say "if I had such a machine I'd be tempted to change the spinner to SSD"
but on second thoughts forget the temptation, just do it.
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I recently replaced the spinner in my wife's HP all-in-one with a SSD. I was surprised to find a 16GB SSD mounted on the board, apparently only used for cache. I never saw any indication that it helped anything. That 5+ y/o machine was always really slow. The new SSD and fresh Windows made all the difference as it's now < 10 seconds from power on to Google.
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Yeah, this is what I am not sure of, whether the SSD is just cache, or is the actual boot device.
It shows, in Hierans boot CD in a disk scan tool as an unmounted device, it does show up in BIOS as a disk device.
The terrabyte disk is mounted, but the disk manager shows some odd partitions, it was partitioned up into
windows 10, windows 7, data, linux, android,
It seems as if the windows 10, what was the original disk boot partition, has lost its MBR.
(I later put on an Ubuntu MBR on this disk, and it then booted either Ubuntu, windows 10, or windows 7).
All my data is backed up on a terabyte external USB disk, so I might just get the rescue iso off Dell, and reset the system to its original format, booting windows 10, and running ubuntu and android off VMs. Probably easiest. THe Dell hardware check, long version, didnt report any hardware issues, so it looks like the disks are OK, just the MBR got trashed.
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Windows 10 updates will trash MBR's it doesn't understand, here's just one ref: dual boot - Windows 10 update broke my MBR / GRUB - Ask Ubuntu[^]
A better way to go would be install ubuntu (dell even do this themselves in some of their laptops) and run win 10 & 7 out of VM's - more stable and less worries that win updates will mess up vm settings / connectivity or even scan and decide it's suspicious.
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THats a possible. Right now I just need another windows 10 machine on the C drive that I can use for testing some driver dev work.
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Oh, very good! 
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