Non-Existant Optane stopping me from Hackintoshing?

[Fadednova]

Hello,

I have been trying to hackintosh my Acer Aspire 7 since I got it, when I first got the laptop I opened it up and added another m.2 SSD and 2tb hard drive. Note the fact that physically there is no optane present in the laptop. After I booted it up for the first time I noticed that the Intel utility was still installed and when I opened it, it said that there was none present. OK, I thought, I was good to go, I started to change the bios setting when I noticed that the boot option was set to RST Premium, I thought that it was unnecessary so I disabled it because the installer would not boot with it. The SSD didn't show up in the installer and I just thought that I should enable it to see. It stopped the installer from even booting. When I booted back into windows I double checked and it still said that no optane is present. I thought of uninstalling the utility but nothing happened, what should I do now? I have run out of options. Thanks in advance.

[jj9987]

Which installer are you using? Your boot option (are you talking about boot order here?) will have to be the USB that you are booting from.

[Fadednova]

2 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Which installer are you using? Your boot option (are you talking about boot order here?) will have to be the USB that you are booting from.

What do you mean by installer? Vanilla Catalina maybe? And yes I did have the boot order set correctly

[HanZie82]

And the Acer Aspire is compatible with the Optane?
Acer has a hand of using their own made motherboards and not complying to much with standards and putting in just enough to work.
I do not know for this model.
(I have an what older Acer notebook in which i cannot increase RAM cus theres only 1 type thats compatible and they are not sold anymore. So thats where my question comes from)/

[jj9987]

4 minutes ago, Fadednova said:

What do you mean by installer? Vanilla Catalina maybe? And yes I did have the boot order set correctly

Clover or OpenCore? As for the drive - is it a NVMe SSD or SATA? Is it set to correct mode (NVMe or AHCI)?

[Fadednova]

2 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Clover or OpenCore? As for the drive - is it a NVMe SSD or SATA? Is it set to correct mode (NVMe or AHCI)?

Clover, It is an NVMe however I am not fully sure and I can not change it

[Fadednova]

5 minutes ago, HanZie82 said:

And the Acer Aspire is compatible with the Optane?
Acer has a hand of using their own made motherboards and not complying to much with standards and putting in just enough to work.
I do not know for this model.
(I have an what older Acer notebook in which i cannot increase RAM cus theres only 1 type thats compatible and they are not sold anymore. So thats where my question comes from)/

It is compatible but it does not have any sort of it in it at all.

[Fadednova]

5 minutes ago, jj9987 said:

Clover or OpenCore? As for the drive - is it a NVMe SSD or SATA? Is it set to correct mode (NVMe or AHCI)?

It was set to AHCi but it would not show the drives, when I changed to the mode that windows can boot in it just crashed when the installer does something with the drives.