New M.2 SSD

[Jenkosaurus]

Forgive me if i am being stupid, 

 

After spending 3 ours last night instaling windows to a new HDD in my laptop and trying to workout how to create a new UEFI partition (Sorted it in the end) I wiped the original boot ssd from my laptop and am now trying to put the M.2 SSD into my PC so i can do away with my mechanical drive. The problem i am having it that when i put the SSD onto the mobo, it refuses to see my actual boot drive and insists on trying to boot from the M.2 SSD instead of my SATA SSD.

 

Vitals:

 

Gigabyte Z170 G5 Mobo

 

Any clues?

 

Thanks in advance <3

[GirlFromYonder]

6 minutes ago, Jenkosaurus said:

Forgive me if i am being stupid, 

 

After spending 3 ours last night instaling windows to a new HDD in my laptop and trying to workout how to create a new UEFI partition (Sorted it in the end) I wiped the original boot ssd from my laptop and am now trying to put the M.2 SSD into my PC so i can do away with my mechanical drive. The problem i am having it that when i put the SSD onto the mobo, it refuses to see my actual boot drive and insists on trying to boot from the M.2 SSD instead of my SATA SSD.

 

Vitals:

 

Gigabyte Z170 G5 Mobo

 

Any clues?

 

Thanks in advance <3

change the boot device from the bios. Give priority to hdd 

[Jenkosaurus]

Just now, DeezNoNos said:

change the boot device from the bios. Give priority to hdd 

That what i mean, there is ONLY the M.2 detected in the Bios, when i remove the M.2 all works normally

[GirlFromYonder]

2 minutes ago, Jenkosaurus said:

That what i mean, there is ONLY the M.2 detected in the Bios, when i remove the M.2 all works normally

ooh then that means your M.2 is a SATA ssd. As lanes done grow on trees, lanes are shared. So change the SATA port your HDD is connected to or something. Check your mobo manual for which sata ports are shared.