'Cannot find boot drive' after replacing SDD with Western Digital 500GB Gen 4 on Aspire TCC-855

mikego
mikego Member Posts: 2 New User
edited January 7 in Aspire and Veriton Desktops

I tried replacing the 128G SDD with a Western Digital 500G Gen 4 drive (knowing I will only get Gen 3 performance from it). However, I get a "Cannot find boot drive" error.
Is there something I need to do on the SDD to get it to work?

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  • Larryodie
    Larryodie Member Posts: 1,769 Community Aficionado WiFi Icon

    You need to have the new drive cloned or with an operating system from Micro Soft

    Also remove your old drive until the boot drive is established .

    If not go into BIOS using the F12 Key to see if is available and Boot Enable is Enabled,

  • billsey
    billsey ACE Posts: 34,869 Trailblazer

    I do not see a TCC-855 model, or a TC-855, but there is a TC-865. The D17E5 doesn't tell us anything, since they don't provide us with any sort of cross reference, and they apparently reuse those "model numbers" for different series of systems. Your full model number is usually on the same sticker as your serial number, it should look something like xxxxx-xxx-xxxx. It's possible, depending on your actual model, that the M.2 slot is SATA only and doesn't support NVMe drives.

    Click on "Like" if you find my answer useful or click on "Yes" if it answers your question.
  • mikego
    mikego Member Posts: 2 New User

    I'm sorry - the model is a TC-885-ES18.

    The desktop config has a 1TB SATA drive that is the boot drive. The 128GB drive is a secondary drive, drive D:

    So its really strange that changing the SSD, drive d:, is resulting in the PC not finding the boot drive.

  • Larryodie
    Larryodie Member Posts: 1,769 Community Aficionado WiFi Icon

    As I said , disconnect the secondary drive until the boot is established.

    Be sure that the new drive has the WIndow;s installed and is bootable.

    Did you clone from the old drive and check "make bootable" ?

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