Issue with unidentified external SSD in Lenovo M70Q: BIOS startup problems even during NVME cloning.
Issue with unidentified external SSD in Lenovo M70Q: BIOS startup problems even during NVME cloning.
Dear reader,
I bought a Lenovo M70Q (I5 10th, 8GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) with the goal of linking an existing external SSD through USB from an older Lenovo Desktop. However, the BIOS doesn’t treat the SSD as a bootable device. I attempted several solutions like enabling Legacy BIOS mode, turning off Secure Boot, and even cloning the USB SSD to the internal NVME drive. Before cloning, the NVME recognized the data in BIOS; after cloning, the issue continues. After installing Windows 10 on the empty NVME and connecting the USB SSD, the problem still exists.
Anyone have insights into what might be causing this?
Best regards,
What is present on this external SSD?
If a Windows installation is involved, the current setup appears fully functional...but it won't start from there.
What is your main objective here?
What is the initial configuration, and what outcome are you aiming for?
For various reasons, this approach won't function. A Windows install isn't modular for relocation between systems. Even with two Lenovo units, getting Windows to operate from an external drive is complex. If it worked on the previous setup, the boot partition likely resided on a different storage device, possibly the original internal one.
Now that M70Q's onboard SSD has Windows installed, it is possible to transfer just the external SSD's data. The external SSD holds a single partition with both Windows and the necessary files.
The particular information being referred to is likely your personal files. Applications are not relevant here.