Heres a weird one for you guys. I just bought a Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe drive as I was out of room on my boot drive (Samsung 850 EVO SATA). I cloned the drive with Samsung's data migration software and can boot into my new NVMe drive when the SATA drive is not connected (I can boot while my hard drive is connected as well). I want to reuse the old SATA SSD as storage for games. When I connect the old SSD so I can format it and boot my computer, it will not let me boot to the new drive. It only shows the windows boot manager drive as being the 850 EVO. Is there a way I can get it so it will allow me to boot in with all the drive connected so I can format the old SSD for games?
Here's a link to photos of my bios during the process.
First photo is when the old SSD is installed
Second photo is when the old SSD is unplugged.
Third photo is my boot order.
Forth Photo is the error message.
Computer boots fine without SATA SSD installed. When SATA SSD is installed (with correct boot priority in bios) the computer boots to "Reboot and select proper boot drive."
Computer Specs
CPU: Intel Core i7-6700K 4 GHz Quad-Core Processor
CPU Cooler: Corsair H100i v2 70.69 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2400 Memory
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 500 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Storage: Samsung 970 Evo 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive
Storage: Seagate Barracuda Compute 2 TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB SC Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card
Case: Corsair 350D Window MicroATX Mid Tower Case
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650 W 80+ Gold Certified Fully Modular ATX Power Supply
