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Installing Windows to an NVMe SSD in an old HP

morn14150
By morn14150
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Hi guys, so lately I’m trying to switch from a SATA ssd to an NVMe one, it requires an adapter (pcie x16 to nvme expansion card) but I couldn’t install since Windows didn’t detect the drive. I tried to use a NEW 32gb flash drive to use as a bootloader (clover). And this time it doesn’t boot to the windows installation. Can someone help?

 

Also I have:

Hitachi 640GB HDD with Windows Installer inside

Kingston DTX 32GB with Clover inside.

And a H87 Motherboard, with no M.2 slot.

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Best way I've found is using DUET. You can find everything you need right here.

 

Works great on my X58 system, you'll need to have a sacrificial USB key plugged in all the time, I just got a little tiny one that you can't even see and leave it plugged in the back. 

The New Machine: Intel 11700K / Strix Z590-A WIFI II / Patriot Viper Steel 4400MHz 2x8GB / Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC w/ Bykski WB / x4 1TB SSDs (x2 M.2, x2 2.5) / Corsair 5000D Airflow White / EVGA G6 1000W / Custom Loop CPU & GPU

 

The Rainbow X58: i7 975 Extreme Edition @4.2GHz, Asus Sabertooth X58, 6x2GB Mushkin Redline DDR3-1600 @2000MHz, SP 256GB Gen3 M.2 w/ Sabrent M.2 to PCI-E, Inno3D GTX 580 x2 SLI w/ Heatkiller waterblocks, Custom loop in NZXT Phantom White, Corsair XR7 360 rad hanging off the rear end, 360 slim rad up top. RGB everywhere.

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3 hours ago, ApolloX75 said:

Best way I've found is using DUET. You can find everything you need right here.

 

Works great on my X58 system, you'll need to have a sacrificial USB key plugged in all the time, I just got a little tiny one that you can't even see and leave it plugged in the back. 

I’m ok with sacrificing a usb drive but can you use a hard drive partition as a replacement to the usb tho

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4 hours ago, morn14150 said:

I’m ok with sacrificing a usb drive but can you use a hard drive partition as a replacement to the usb tho

Honestly not sure but I imagine you could, I haven't tried it that way yet. I don't see why it wouldn't work.

The New Machine: Intel 11700K / Strix Z590-A WIFI II / Patriot Viper Steel 4400MHz 2x8GB / Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC w/ Bykski WB / x4 1TB SSDs (x2 M.2, x2 2.5) / Corsair 5000D Airflow White / EVGA G6 1000W / Custom Loop CPU & GPU

 

The Rainbow X58: i7 975 Extreme Edition @4.2GHz, Asus Sabertooth X58, 6x2GB Mushkin Redline DDR3-1600 @2000MHz, SP 256GB Gen3 M.2 w/ Sabrent M.2 to PCI-E, Inno3D GTX 580 x2 SLI w/ Heatkiller waterblocks, Custom loop in NZXT Phantom White, Corsair XR7 360 rad hanging off the rear end, 360 slim rad up top. RGB everywhere.

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On 6/1/2023 at 1:11 PM, ApolloX75 said:

Best way I've found is using DUET. You can find everything you need right here.

 

Works great on my X58 system, you'll need to have a sacrificial USB key plugged in all the time, I just got a little tiny one that you can't even see and leave it plugged in the back. 

also unfortunately I tried both clover and rEFInd, it still wouldn’t detect my nvme drive, I went as far as changing my storage option to IDE (according to whatever video on YouTube), and it still will not work.

At this point I think it’s probably my fault or something, maybe I’m doing it the wrong way, how do I set up windows in the nvme drive in the first place?

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Also I put the nvme drive in the mini PCIE slot, not the regular pcie x16, cus that’s for my gpu and there’s only one pcie x16 slot

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