NVMe drive booting?

MrSimplicity · June 20, 2020

So I sprung for an NVMe SSD and got windows installed onto it but cannot boot from it directly.

I can boot into windows but when i try to fully wipe my old ssd with cmd/Diskpart it tells me i can't wipe the drive with the OS on it. After "wiping" (which it doesn't) I restart and it boots into windows recovery mode. I enter the BIOS and the only boot drive is my old SSD and selecting it boots me into windows even though there is no OS on it. I feel like I'm missing something entirely, is it possible to boot from an NVMe or is this some sort of dependency thing that is happening where it requires a secondary drive to actually boot from? My OS is install on the NVMe.

I just recently built a second PC as a server that I also have an NVMe drive in (which is where i decided my main rig should have one) and that one had no issues and boots while never having an issue.

*Specs in SIG*

Zagna · June 20, 2020

Reinstall Windows with only the NVMe drive connected, bootloader got installed on the other drive.

MrSimplicity · June 20, 2020

2 minutes ago, Zagna said:

Reinstall Windows with only the NVMe drive connected, bootloader got installed on the other drive.

Is there anyway around this? I'm not really trying to reinstall windows again (done it 3 times already) and over the course of the last couple days of just tinkering with it I've also gotten all my programs and such back to the way i liked them. I mean i have a backup server now so it won't be the biggest issue but I'd like to avoid it if i can.