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  • It’s not that hard. If you are comfortable enough to muck about inside your computer with SATA cables and ports, I would bet money you can handle this.

    I’m gonna be short here because I don’t have the time to go into more detail; maybe someome else can go into more detail if you need it.

    Find a USB drive you don’t mind formatting (losing all data on the drive), at least 8gb.

    Download Ventoy. Extract it, run the .exe and select your USB drive. It will erase everything and install Ventoy onto that drive.

    Download a live boot Linux distro. Fedora or Ubuntu are both perfectly fine for this, and simple. You should be downloading an .iso file. Place that file onto the Ventoy USB.

    Shut down your PC. Unplug the good SSD. Plug the bad SSD into the mobo using the cable and port you know are good.

    Ensuring that the Ventoy USB is still plugged into your PC, turn it on. Get into BIOS. Change your boot order so that the Ventoy USB is first.

    Should boot into Ventoy. Select the .iso you put on there. It will handle booting up from that file. If there’s any more options, just choose the default. Booting might take much longer than you’re used to since it’s from a USB stick.

    You should now be using that OS, booted live from your USB drive. Does the SSD appear in the file browser? Alternatively you can follow that OS’ installation prompt (probably came up automatically when it reached the desktop) until the choose an installation step, does the SSD show up? Do NOT actually install the OS onto that drive, that will erase data.