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Originally Posted by xtb
I purchased a new PCIe NVMe SSD for my 11 yr old Dell T105. I've tried installing two different flavors of Linux onto the new drive and they both hang during the installation, about 3/4 of the way through. I probably should have gone with a SATA SSD but the performance difference was too good to pass up. Anyone experience a similar situation or have any ideas?
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More details would be nice, but
the problem could be a simple bios setting. It is unlikely that the problem involves a "driver."
Did you get to the drive formatting stage of the install? If so, was the SSD drive listed?
Did you have any other drives connected? What distros did you try to install?
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Originally Posted by vegasone
It is pretty much a waste of money to try and upgrade a really old PC with the latest and greatest.
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Not really
On the other hand, if you try to do so with Windows, yes, it is problematic/futile. However, the right Linux/BSD distro will revive and old machine and make it nimble and snappy.
Installing is usually very easy.
