Acer Nitro 5 SSD won't boot, took the SSD out of the old laptop and put it into the new one.

moeJoneon

I recently bought an Acer Nitro 5 to replace a Lenovo laptop. I took the SSD out of the old laptop and put it into the new one. It shows up in the bios as a bootable drive and shows up in Windows OS as a functional drive, but I can't boot from it. When I try it bluescreens with a "Inaccessable_boot_device" error. It works as normal on the old laptop I got it from. Also, When I boot into recovery mode, there are no drives in disk part.

[Edited the thread to add model number to the title and to add issue detail]

StevenGen

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/699942/acer-nitro-5-ssd-wont-boot-took-the-ssd-out-of-the-old-laptop-and-put-it-into-the-new-one

When replacing the M.2 boot drive in your new Acer Nitro 5 with an M.2 boot drive from a Lenovo laptop, even if they have the same OS Win-11 there are a few considerations to keep in mind and to check, the most relevant is Drivers and Configuration: The pre-configured version of Windows 11 that came with your Acer laptop may have specific drivers and configurations optimized for its hardware of the Nitro 5 that is completely different to the Lenovo and that is why the old M.2 Lenovo boot drive can't imitate into the Nitro 5 laptop. When replacing the boot drive, you might need to install specific drivers for the Nitro 5 to function correctly.

I don't know the exact Nitro 5 model that you have but it seems that the drivers on the Lenovo M.2 SSD boot drive are not coinciding with the Nitro 5 model as they are not booting the laptop or the OS as they are completely different. Best is to put this old M.2 boot drive back into the Lenovo laptop and if you have valuable data on it then back all that data up and if this M.2 SSD drive is a better quality PCIe4x4 than the Nitro 5 Acer oem fitted M.2 drive, then install it into the Nitro 5 laptops 2nd M.2 slot and do a clone of the Nitro 5 oem Acer fitter drive and swap them around and use the Acer oem M.2 drive as a slave drive, doing that will make everything work 100%. Good luck and hope this helps you out.

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