Can I Use an E-Shaped SSD from My Old Laptop in My New PC?
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I have an E-shaped SSD that I think is either Gen 3 or SATA. When I tried connecting it to my new PC that has an M.2 Gen 4 slot, it didn't get recognized. Additionally, Windows kept crashing whenever I left the SSD in the slot. Does anyone know if this is a compatibility issue?
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That’s an interesting point, but I connected my main NVMe SSD to a laptop slot, and it worked perfectly fine. Maybe there’s something else going on with your setup?
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The E-shaped SSD is a SATA SSD, and it won't work in a PCIe slot like the one in your new PC. Those two interfaces are incompatible, so that’s likely why it wasn’t recognized and caused issues with Windows.
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