[ale] Tales of woe and befuddlement

[Boris Borisov]

How did you plug the SSD into USB port. What hardware you use for that?

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 8:41 PM Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I'm assuming this system does new-fangled EUFI boot. Poke in the startup
> stuff and look for boot devices. See if you can add that usb3 interface.
>
> On March 4, 2019 5:18:20 PM EST, William Wylde via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> 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
>> access time is what you'd expect from a usb 3.0 connected SSD.
>>
>> And now I can't get a xubuntu install CD or USB stick to work either.
>> They hang, and eventually the hdmi display will time-out and tell me that
>> there's no input from the computer.
>>
>> "Trusted computing" is turned off, and I can find no settings concerning
>> EHCI in the bios setup utility, so I'm at a loss.   Anybody have a clue as
>> to what I'm doing wrong?
>>
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>> “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
>> always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
>> become great.”
>>
>> ― Mark Twain
>>
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