I recently got a E5 574G-52QU, today I got a new SSD to replace the HDD that came with my laptop. New SSD is a Crucial BX100 (120GB). I cloned the HDD into my SSD with two different programs succesfully, but the SSD failed to boot with both. It booted once, kept working after a few soft reboots until I turned the computer off, then it never booted again. I've tried disabling Secure Boot in the BIOS as well as using Legacy BIOS instead of UEFI, no luck. The SSD is connected to the same SATA port the old HDD was and it's the only drive in the computer, Windows 10 has AHCI support enabled in the registry (I made sure of it before cloning) and the drive is working, tested it on my desktop computer. The BIOS shows no drive at all, if I plug in my HDD instead it boots without problems. SSD firmware is updated to the latest version. I am honestly out of ideas.
EDIT: Okay guys, so I did some tests. Meaning, I put my SSD Samsung 840 EVO 250GB (my desktop main OS drive) in my laptop and the Crucial BX100 in my desktop PC.
Laptop recognizes the Samsung right away in the BIOS without issues.
Desktop recognizes the Crucial BX100 right away in the BIOS (and Windows too) without issues.
The only thing I can assume with this is that, as IronFly puts it, the laptop chipset/bios doesn't support the BX100 OR the SSD really needs a firmware update.
It's stupid, Crucial's website clearly states that the BX100 is 100% compatible with this laptop model. I sent an e-mail to Crucial earlier but still no luck.
So, guys, if you're planning on upgrading your E5 574 with this SSD my advice is AVOID. It's not working. Go with Samsung. Thanks for your input, guys. I think, for now, this issue doesn't really have a solution unless a future BIOS update addresses it on Crucial or Acer's part.
