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Can’t turn on laptop after adding new ssd

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phurinat2010

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Lenovo legion 5 15ACH6H can’t boot window after installed new ssd nvme. Its just blank ssd doesn’t have a windows on it. When i put the power button its just show the keyboard light and the screen doesn’t have anything happens. Please help me. Thank you.
 
phurinat2010 said:
Lenovo legion 5 15ACH6H can’t boot window after installed new ssd nvme. Its just blank ssd doesn’t have a windows on it. When i put the power button its just show the keyboard light and the screen doesn’t have anything happens. Please help me. Thank you.
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If choose new installation of windows. Other way is to make clone from old SSD.
 
phurinat2010 said:
Lenovo legion 5 15ACH6H can’t boot window after installed new ssd nvme. Its just blank ssd doesn’t have a windows on it. When i put the power button its just show the keyboard light and the screen doesn’t have anything happens. Please help me. Thank you.
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Is the battery dead or poorly seated?

There isn't much directly involving the hard drive that prevents BIOS or a manufacturer logo or anything else from displaying.
 
Hi,
Indeed you have to use the boot menu to select the os of choice installation usb
Might be tapping or holding down F12 or some other key or combo.
 
ThrashZone said:
Hi,
Indeed you have to use the boot menu to select the os of choice installation usb
Might be tapping or holding down F12 or some other key or combo.
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Question is: why is it refusing to POST?

@phurinat2010 If at this point in time you put the old SSD back in, does it work?

Also, try taking the RAM out and putting it back in first. Sometimes that works.
 
Apple does that kind of thing - the SSD is soldered on and if it goes bad then you have to get a new laptop, because the BIOS data is on the SSD.

This SSD seems removable, so there's still hope.
 
Hi,
Incompatible
Bios is breaking bad rabid :laugh:
 
Its just blank ssd doesn’t have a windows on it.

Did you install Windows already on it? If it's a blank SSD, it's normal your computer does nothing.
You have to prepare an windows setup USB stick. Start from it and then install windows on your new SSD.

On some computers it's F8 or F12 to see a menu where you can select the boot device.

Or is it just a new drive that you added for extra spare?
 
Put back your old SSD and see if it works again and go from there. Best to take things slowly and carefully.

If you want to make your life easier buy a SSD enclosure of sorts that can connect through USB or thunderbolt if you end up taking the SSD out. That way you can clone it, put whatever on there before installing it into a computer and whatnot. They are very inexpensive in general and you will probably be using it more than once. I got a relatively cheap SSK SSD enclosure and for cloning purposes it worked as intended (granted I did it through USB and I take cloning very slowly as I don't do it often).

If you do want to clone your SSD specifically with windows I have heard DiskGenius is the best cloning software for windows (UNLESS you have a Samsung SSD in which they have propietary software specifically for cloning. I have used samsungs software for cloning a RAID 0 array once and zero problems so far!) Also if you don't know how to clone there are several youtube videos on it for each cloning software.

tldr; put back old SSD and test it (hope it works again), get a SSD enclosure that at least has a USB connection, find a suitable cloning software with a good reputation, and please list what you are intending to do (I assume you want to clone your drive).
 
SPDIF said:
Its just blank ssd doesn’t have a windows on it.

Did you install Windows already on it? If it's a blank SSD, it's normal your computer does nothing.
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What? even if the drive is absolutely blank, it should still complain about not finding a boot device.

But here there are no signs of life. Meaning there is no POST, a problem with the laptop itself, not the drive.
 
Until the op gives more details, it stays guessing anyway. Maybe you accidentally shorted or broken something while installing a new SSD.
 
Not necessarily. I have been in such situations - a CMOS reset or RAM reseat is what I would do first. If not that then putting the old drive in. Only then can we assume something broke.
 
SPDIF said:
Maybe you accidentally shorted or broken something while installing a new SSD.
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Hardware death by static electricity while not impossible, is quite low even if you take zero precautions. There is also a good chance OP did not seat the SSD connection properly (remember all those unseated RTX 4090 cable melting incidents? Though that was also a design flaw.) or some other flavor of not seating all the cables properly. Either way OP needs to comment more on what their situation is.
 
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