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Great news. My new Samsung 1T drive without the heatsink is working! I should have read the 'fine print', and not listened to Lenovo Chat. Thank you.

I have decided to return the heatsink drive after some googling about heatsink SSDs with laptops, and have purchased the Samsung drive without the heatsink.

Since the purchase was going to be an investment, that is, I wanted to keep this drive for future laptops that I might purchase at lower storage capacities, and coupled with the fact that it is quite a few extra bucks being put out on a 'generic' 1TB; I thought, for not so much more than the...

Yeah, it was a tight fit with the cover slightly pressing on it, but while I was trying to get it working, I was not screwing down the cover. If heatsink drives are not a good fit why are they being made, unless it is specifically laptops that are the bad fit, and in that case, shouldn't there...

Crucial claims that the laptop can use M.2 NVME SSDs as large as 4TB. If that is the case, the Samsung 990 Pro w/ Heatsink should have worked, shouldn't it have? Or maybe it is the heatsink part of the drive that could be a problem? Regardless, I have purchased a PNY 500gb M.2 nvme ssd from...

No, not for my model which is Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5 ITL05 Type 82HS.

Problem solved. I contacted Lenovo Chat, and this laptop will only upgrade to a 512gb drive. I'm going to get one at Walmart soon. And oh, by the way, to get the full memory included for the new SSD when cloning, there is an option after selecting the destination disk "Copy Partitions". After...

I still cannot get my new 1TB M.2 nvme SSD to open my laptop. I purchased an external M.2 nvme adapter, and I cloned my current M.2 nvme (128GB) to the new drive, but it was left with over 800 GB of unallocated space. The first time i tried it, it went to the desktop, but after just a minute...

To SIW2 I did the zip file: the zip contains 18.37.1.1003 19.5.1.1040 but really? when I opened each folder there was listed a file starting with W-10. I can only presume it refers to Windows 10, or is it just a strange coincidence? Anyway It did not work still got message no drivers found. I...

REPLY TO SIW2 Is this a plain flash drive or the one I installed windows 11 on? I have tried the IRST but it did not work. The YouTube video that explained used a formatted drive. And besides that when I click "load drive", both the USB drive and my new drive appear. It's after I submit...

I am not extremely tech savvy. I have the USB windows 11 and a new nvme SSD. How do I get windows 11 installed on the new SSD? If that is what I need to do to get to a desktop. I have included these images:

Everything could be easier if I had an M.2 NVMe to USB C Docking Station, but I don't. So could someone please tell me step by step, if it is possible, how to do this? I have images to show the process and what goes wrong, but it says they are too large (4.19 mb). The laptop is a Lenovo...

Is it possible to upgrade to a larger size nvme ssd without cloning. If so please explain. I created a windows 11 USB installation drive, and installed the new drive, but it doesn't work. It goes to a Windows installation process, but it says it can't find drivers or drive, something, I don't...

Thanks a lot. Have had this problem before, but never new the cause. Probably did a factory reset to fix it. Who knew it could be so simple. I set up both my local and my Microsoft accounts for must enter password at startup which then got rid of non-existent account. After that, just had to...