Reply To: Anyone upgraded the SSD?

[Brad]

I’m trying to help a friend who is having trouble upgrading M.2 SSD in his i35.  He bought the WD Blue M.2 SATA SSD but it’s not being recognized.  Basically all he did was create a Windows USB install/boot drive and replaced his existing SSD with the WD SSD.  Is there some setting in the BIOS that needs to be changed?  (eg. change boot drive setting from RAID to AHCI) or something like that?   I cannot find anyone who has upgraded the SSD and what the installation procedure is.
Or if it’s just something strange and specific to the WD Blue SSD?  Ie, other drives like Samsung, Crucial, etc. are recognized fine out of the box?

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