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I have an Asus ROG GL753VE laptop. It has 2 hard drives. An m2 slot with a SanDisk SSD z400s m.2 2280 128 GB, and a 1tb spinner HDD. I need more space on the c drive, so I picked out a crucial m.2 that shows as compatible. Crucial MX500 500GB M.2 Type 2280 Internal SSD Upgrade for: ASUS ROG GL753VE Crucial part number: CT11445517

When I install it, the laptop will not boot...no power no nothing. I look at the front lights and the power indicator comes on for about 1 second then goes out. I swap the old m.2 and it fires right up. I swapped them out 5 times...same results. I choose the 100% compatible with crucial so I wouldn't have these issues. Any ideas? Maybe I can return the Crucial SSD, and remove the existing SanDisk m.2 SSD, and replace the 2.5 spinner with a 2.5 Samsung SSD so I can have that space. I don't know why Asus would but in such a small m.2 SSD and have all the space on a spinner drive for data.
 
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The m.2 will be faster, and having 2 drives let's you keep one for the is and programs leaving the other one for files, but you could do that.
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I went to the asus website and it downloaded the winflash utility. When I run it it does detect a newer bios version 307...I'm on ver. 306. But when I try and update it from the web...no go.and that ver 307 is not available as an external download.

and no...I haven't cloned the drive...don't think I have the equipment for m.2 cloning.
 
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When you upgrade your c drive, you must clone it, otherwise your boot device is a blank drive. To do it on a laptop you will need some cloning utility and an m.2 to usb adapter (or a friend's computer with 2 spare m.2 ports
 
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I see. There are no other alternatives? ..I'm not to familiar with these m.2's. My thoughts were to put in new m.2 and boot to usb drive with windows 10 on it and then move forward to a fresh install.

Is it possible to remove the existing m.2 and just use a 2.5 ssd instead...boot to my usb and install windows 10 on that drive...completely bypassing the m.2 ?
 
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I just removed the m.2 drive, and booted to my usb/windows 10 installation... and its going to load windows on the other harddrive in the laptop. So what I think would be the most trouble free is to ditch the m.s and get a 500 gog 2.5 samsung ssd and simply install windows 10 to that...looks like its going to work. Thoughts plz ?
 
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Here is your machine:

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/Laptops/ROG-GL753VE/overview/
Under Storage, the web page spec says:
256GB/512GB PCIE Gen3X4 SSD
So I imagine the board shipped with an M.2 PCIe drive.

Note that the manual says the board supports both a PCIe and a SATA drive.

The drive you bought:
http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/rog-gl753ve/CT11445517
Form Factor M.2
Interface SATA 6.0Gb/s

Maybe a different drive than what was supplied ? Look at the Sandisk drive--PCIe or SATA ?

BTW you are able to clone. In this configuration you would clone the M2 to the HDD then install the (proper ) new M2 and clone back to it.
 
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Thank you so much for your input. Is it possible to simply ditch the m.2 and just use a 2.5 ssd? . I pulled out the m.2 and booted to usb/windows install and it started to load windows on that other drive....any reason why I couldn't do that way ?
 
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Thats what originally prompted this upgrade. The original m.2 was only 128gigs, and is full being its a gaming laptop. So it didn't have enough room to hold all the games...with a secondary 2.5 hdd for data. So being my plan will work...just ditching the m.2 and using a samsung 850 evo and call it a day.
 
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One huge reason. You need a back up drive/image and you need two drives for a good back up. Having two drives is key. I advise you sort out the M2 drive so you can have a back up system.(The Sandisk works so use it if you cannot get a bigger M2 installed.) Imaging software like Macrium Reflect (free version) will put an image of the working M.2 onto the HDD. You may continue to use both normally including the HDD used as storage. But if the OS gives problems you can restore the M2 to its present condition by restoring the image.
What about the new M2 drive ?
 
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I have initiated a return on the new m.2...and I'll use my external drive for backup
 
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Well..I yanked out the m.2 and the 2.5 hdd spinner and put in a samsung 860 evo 500 gig ssd..put in windows 10 usb install..and had windows installed in 5 minutes... and solved the no more harddrive space..I know I took the easy way out..but my customer didn't want to wait anymore for his laptop.
 
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