can i swap hard drives between 2 exact Aspire A315-53 models?

waynow
waynow Member Posts: 4 New User
edited October 2023 in 2020 Archives
i tried but got "no boot device found"     one has been having possible hardware issues (it was a new open box at microcenter) so i want to take my good one and use it for my field service work and keep the flaky one for the home office. past 1 year warranty.

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  • I don't think there will be any problems, since both models have basically the same hardware. However, I suggest that you backup your files first as a precaution.
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    waynow Member Posts: 4 New User
    i tried swapping them and they both got "no boot device found" i then put the drives back in the original laptops and they both booted
  • Were the sata mode in the bios in ahci or rst with optane in both models? Were secureboot disabled?
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    i tried to disable secureboot but could not get to it. the only way was to change from eufi to legacy boot, though i'm not sure if that disabled secure boot.  when i tried to boot legacy and came up with an error. i should of wrote it down..... i think it said invalid raid array...  i'm trying to get back in bios, and it's too screwed up. i'm in windows now on the bad laptop and can't even bring windows mail.  or control alt del to bring up system manager. i was going to look but i didn't see a ahci or rst option or anything about optane (though it does/did have optane)
  • Leave in uefi mode and disable secureboot, creating a password on setsupervisorpassword. Leave sata mode on rst with optane too. Then check if the boot normally occurs with the other hdd. Do both models have an optane memory installed? Why do you want to exchange the hard drives?
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    i use one laptop for field service and it acts flaky sometimes, very rare but it does, and i've got a client remoted into my laptop and it starts becoming unresponsive, so slow as to be useless, it's like you're loosing control because it barely responds to any mouse clicks and when it does it's very slow. so i wanted to take the hdd and put it in my home office laptop, that way when it starts getting flaky at home it will be better than when i'm getting paid by the client to provide a remote console session and my laptop stops functioning. it's the whole reason i'm there. anyway, i reset windows, and i guess i'm going to try that. but i may try your suggestion for supervisor password. if your saying the way to get to secure boot is by creating a password? becuz secureboot was right under eufi/legacy selection but i could not highlight or move to secureboot to change it.
  • You have to check if your client's hdd is converted to mbr (legacy) or gpt (uefi). In addition, the problem may be that your client's hdd has the rst with optane driver instead of the ahci driver installed on windows. About secureboot, disable it. Now, regarding your client's problem, you may want to check if the disk is 100% in the task manager.
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