So I totalled a cheap laptop by spilling lemonade on it. 
: The SSD seems untouched though, so I bought a cheap laptop from a pawn shop, reformatted it and everything, only thing is while it has a 1TB hdd which is great for my photo collections, it's a bit slow running off it in general so I thought I'd see if I could get the SSD from the prior laptop working in it.
I took the back of the new laptop and to my surprise there was an NVME slot, and as you can see the SSD fits into the connector just fine. The problem is the bios just doesn't recognise it at all, it only sees the hard disk and the bootable USB drive I've inserted.
Is the SSD just the wrong version for the mobo or is something else afoot do you think? The device manager does show a PCI device not functioning so I wonder whether it's the NVME drive needing a driver or something?
I've tried legacy and UEFI mode, setting the sata controller to IDE/SATA instead of ACHI, disabling secure boot, disabling fast boot, but that hasn't made a difference.
: The SSD seems untouched though, so I bought a cheap laptop from a pawn shop, reformatted it and everything, only thing is while it has a 1TB hdd which is great for my photo collections, it's a bit slow running off it in general so I thought I'd see if I could get the SSD from the prior laptop working in it.I took the back of the new laptop and to my surprise there was an NVME slot, and as you can see the SSD fits into the connector just fine. The problem is the bios just doesn't recognise it at all, it only sees the hard disk and the bootable USB drive I've inserted.
Is the SSD just the wrong version for the mobo or is something else afoot do you think? The device manager does show a PCI device not functioning so I wonder whether it's the NVME drive needing a driver or something?
I've tried legacy and UEFI mode, setting the sata controller to IDE/SATA instead of ACHI, disabling secure boot, disabling fast boot, but that hasn't made a difference.