[ale] Tales of woe and befuddlement

[Phil Turmel]

Sometimes the latest gizmos need the latest (or newish) mobos to plug 
into.  I'd start by upgrading your BIOS to latest.

On 3/4/19 5:18 PM, William Wylde via Ale wrote:
> So I bought a 250 gb external SSD (PNY USB 3.1), to plug into a usb 3.0
> port on my computer- in the hopes that I could install Linux on the SSD.
> 
> I had a dual-boot windows 7/xubuntu 18.02 system that was running just
> fine, except the windows 7 system was basically hosed and slow, and I
> needed it faster for gaming (the only real reason I had a windoze partition
> at all).  And assuming that I could put Linux on the SSD, I went ahead and
> bought a windoze 10 license along with a usb install stick and put it on my
> main 1tb disk.  That went off without a hitch.
> 
> BUT
> 
> The bios in my computer doesn't see my PNY elite 250gb PSSD at all.  It ees
> the usb 2.0 card reader, and will add it to the boot device list with no
> problem- but the new external SSD is invisible to it.
> 
> The drive itself is fine.   Windoze see's it with no problem, and it's