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**Update** A fresh install from a bootable USB onto my M2 drive has worked successfully. Thanks a lot! Now my old SSD sits beside me, unplugged. Will it do any harm by plugging it in and seeing If I can access old photos or should I just turn it into Samsun and let them wipe it and restore it...

i have an existing ticket with samsung to turn in the old SSD for repair.. hopefully with this process i will be able to fix the SSD and not have to go without 500GB.. i dont mind having to reinstall the games i figured this was the process anyways.. sooo question: if i am not able to boot...

500GB

It’s an M2 970 EVO

Ok so the only question I have, is where is my OS gonna go.. should I leave my SSD unplugged and allow it to install to my M2 drive? Or should I just keep my SSD in and see if a fresh windows install will repair it? I’m a noob when it comes to this fresh install stuff. I thought I could just...

No I didn’t. When I upgraded all I did was just plug it all together. At first everything worked great. Flawlessly! But then one night my computer was acting really sluggish.. tried to reboot and it wouldn’t turn back on. And that’s when I just started returning items..

ok Ahh okay that's what i thought.. Right now i am downloaded ISO files that microsoft sent me to try to just do a fresh installation of windows and then maybe get it to boot that way like you said.. As i mentioned before, i still have an M2 500GB installed (brand new) with some games...

Ok i am gonna be honest here.. i have no idea how to tell if a USB drive is bootable.. are most?? I have some blank USB drives that are 8GB ones.. are those bootable?? Sorry for the silly question its just ive never had to do anythin outside of what storage i've currently had in the PC this...

I’ve not tried to boot from anything else. When I unplug my SSD and keep my m2 in there it says please use a bootable drive.. so you’re saying just use a 8gb thumb drive with windows installation on it and try to boot from it?

Sooo I recently rebuilt my gaming computer. I will describe the guts of my computer: MSI z390 Pro A Mothetboard EVGA 1080 FTW2 GPU i5-9600k CPU 2 sticks of 8GB ripjaws 3600mz 1 500GB SSD EVO Samsung (this is the only original piece from a previous build, its 5 years old. This is where my OS is)...