G752VL Compatibility with Samsung 850 EVO M.2 SSD Drive ?

[cbiek1]

Hi I am new here but have been looking through the forums for awhile now. I recently purchases the G752VL at a great price and am trying to install a 250 GB Samsung 850 EVO. After looking through forums I thought this drive might work but it is not showing up in disk management, etc. I changed the bios over to AHCI as well. Is this drive not compatible? If not which drive is? Sorry I know this has been asked a lot but I ended up getting more confused with all of the different drives and models.

Thanks!

[Ancients]

Do you have another computer you can test the SSD in to make sure it is functional? Or another 2.5" hard drive or SSD to test the laptop to make sure the hard drive bay has nothing wrong with it? I have gotten completely dead on arrival hard drives before. I have two Samsung 850 EVOs in my G752VT(One in the hard drive bay, one in an optical drive replacement tray) and both worked upon first connection and activation in disk management.

[Julskey]

Is your drive SATA III 2.5" ? I have one, it is a sata-III 2.5 inch drive. Your drive should also show up in BIOS. Check your connector. Switch off laptop, reseat drive (take it off and put it back in, then power on and go to BIOS and check if it shows up. Could also be that the drive is defective.

If you want a M.2 drive, go for samsung 950 pro.

[JustinThyme]

If its a 2.5 inch drive its almost plug and play. You may need to go into disk manager and initialize the drive and set up partitions.

[cbiek1]

Thanks for all of the responses! I have tried popping the drive in and out of the PCIE M.2 slots and it does not boot up. I read prior threads that because the bay says PCIE express only on this model that the drive may not be comptatible. At this point either the SSD is dead or it does not work with this model. It is not showing up under disk management or in the bios. I had read something about enabling AHCI which I have done but still nothing. Do you guys think it is the drive or does this particular model of laptop need a different type of SSD drive?

[JustinThyme]

So this is an 850 EVO M2? If so it is not compatible with the G752 Series, Must be NVMe drives only. SM951, 950 Pro, SM961, 960 pro, 960 evo will all work fine. 850 EVO is a SATA drive.

[cbiek1]

Thank you for the clarification.