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Is there any difference between AHCI/NVMe and RAID?

It's been nearly a week since I was last in this thread, I will need to read up on the M-BIST procedure, again. For the stripped-out...

If you use a drill bit slightly larger than the screws shaft and drill into the head to a depth just deep enough to cut off the head of...

I agree with the others. A USB enclosure is the best way to go for data recovery. Here's something that no one has mentioned. But if...

SUCCESS! As @glasskuter said all I had to do was change RAID to AHCI and the SSD was recognized. Since the SSD is fine, it must be the...

If I Remember Correctly, when I booted the working laptop with the SSD from the dead laptop I chose Repair / Troubleshoot / Advanced...

So, I can change the UEFI status to AHCI on the working laptop to (hopefully) enable it to boot with the SSD from the dead laptop...

Using a drill I cut off the head of the screw, removed the thermal plate, and removed the SSD (2230) from my laptop. I replaced the SSD...

OK, I'll give it a try. Thank you.

And I'll probably work on the dead laptop on Sunday since that's when my handy cousin will come over, so my next reply will probably be...

"I think the screw was screwed too tightly at the factory. I tried but it's so tightly screwed that I probably stripped it..." Small...

I did the M-BIST diagnostic test (while the system was connected to AC power) and the battery indicator LED didn't light up. The manual...

Absolutely nothing wrong with choosing two avenues for repair. If the internal hardware turns out bad, you still have your data ready...

And I appreciate it very much. I'll try the M-BIST and also try to recover the data (my backups are 3 months old) and then I'll look on...

I've read two different descriptions of how M-BIST works, one saying it only works with power, the other saying it works without power...