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<p>Hello All</p>
<p>I'm revisiting an issue I expressed many months (if not years. I
have an ASUS laptop in which I wanted to install a 500GB SSD in
the vacant bay. I said at the time that the motherboard is up side
down so I can't remove the existing drive (a <span
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PLUS M.2 NVMe</span><sup
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and replace with the 500GB SSD drive. I was able to get the
regular SSD into the bay and plug it in. It shows up in the BIOS
as two separate UUIDs (I have a bootable 313 GB partition and a
free space 193 GB partition. When I choose to try and boot the
313 GB partition the computer reverts to the drive stick. I
checked the UUIs and the 313GB has a different UUID than the
internal stick drive but the same as the 193 SSD. So for some
reason, even though I change the boot order so the 313GB boots,
the computer reverts to the onboard UUID and boots that. I don't
know how the 193 GB drive got the same UUID but it did.</span></p>
<p><span
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I boot the computer I get the option of booting Ubuntu 20.04 but
16.04 is also listed. That is the 313 GB which I was planning to
wipe and install 25.04. Perhaps I can wipe it with GParted and
try installing 25.04 on it.</span></p>
<p><span
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about the long screed! I'd love to get the 313GB to boot 25.04
so I can see if it works on the old cloned 313GB drive with
16.04. If that worked I'd have a current back-up (I have one,
the unbootable 313GB drive which won't boot). I would then
upgrade the 313 GB drive after cloning the onboard drive. If the
cloned 313GB drive updated then I would have my current
mountains of data on the 313GB drive. But if it won't boot now
why would it boot later, after all of the work?</span></p>
<p><span
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thanks if anyone wants to help. If not I completely understand</span></p>
<p><span
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<p><span
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