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<p>Thanks Paul</p>
<p>That seems pretty simple. Still wonder why the motherboard is in
upside down and screws not accessible to lift it out. Weird.</p>
<p>I actually cloned one drive to another, larger drive. I've done
this many times and would just take out the old drive and install
the cloned drive. I did this as I required more data storage.
However, I can't remove the factory drive as it's not accessible.
If I could I would do what I said. Clone the computer's drive to a
larger drive, swap them out and boot happily away with the larger
drive. Changing the UUID made sense but I didn't know how to do
that.<br>
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<div>It sounds like you may have cloned one partition to the
other? This would explain them having the same uuid. You
need to change the uuid of one of the partitions. <br>
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Let's say you want to change the uuid of /dev/sdb1. Make
sure the partition is not mounted, then use:<br>
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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
style="color:rgb(106,106,106);font-family:Pilat,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">When
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
style="color:rgb(106,106,106);font-family:Pilat,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;word-spacing:0px;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline;float:none">Sorry
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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