I have a Lenovo Yoga 500 14IDB and want to install an SSD.
I have an Crucial M500 960GB which generally works (on another machine Lenovo X201).
I connected the SSD via an USB-case and cloned the original SSHD from Lenovo.
If I exchange the internal SSHD with the SSD and boot again the screen keeps black. It does not seem to boot. Also the (extremy small) Firmware key does not work in this case.
Can anybody give an advise what is going wrong or which SSD is compatible to the device?
More details:
The Yoga 500 has a small pin to access the UEFI. Within the UEFI Secure boot is disabled, the setting to boot to Setup is choosen.
If the SSD is installed in the laptop, it won't boot. Keyboard lights up, but nothing more happens.
You can try to boot to UEFI pressing the pin. If the SSD is installed - nothing will happen after the keyboard lights up.
So it is not a problem with the cloned image so far. Even if all partitions on the ssd are deleted (using Acronis TrueImage 2017) the same problem occurs.
If some old hdd (not the original one) without OS is inserted, the laptop will boot to a no OS detected screen - this behaviour is expected iand I would also expect the behaviour if no OS is on SSD.
So the question is mostly a swarm intelligence question:
Does anybody know a compatible SSD for this laptop? Both Laptop and SSD have the latest firmmware - and the Lenovo helpdesk is of no use at all (only want to do support on supported SSHD). For this reason it is the last Lenovo device I will buy...