Pci-e nvme make me cry

[wmooreiii]

Driven mad.  Correction,  just sitting in my office ticked off like a spoiled toddler. Installed an nvme onto a pci-e adapter,  then into the pci-e x4 slot on my msi 970 mobo. In cmd, I cleaned the disk,  converted it to mbr. In disk manager i made simple volume.  In my bios i pointed to boot from usb first, then the ADATA ASX7000NP-512GT-C XPG SX7000, no matter what I do,  I cannot install Windows 10 to the ssd? I've tried a cheap cloning program.  Cloned my SanDisk ssd to my nvme, unplugged the SanDisk,  was asked to insert a bootable drive.  Somebody save me

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[userzero]

So when you run the Windows 10 media the NVME drive does not appear as an option to install to?

[Electronics Wizardy]

I don't think that amd am3+ supports booting from nvme drives. You need a new cpu + motherboard

[Guest]

Your platform is quite old, that's most probably the issue, check for newer bios revision mabey? I still doubt that it will be bootable though.

[DildorTheDecent]

23 minutes ago, wmooreiii said:

msi 970 mobo.

Which board? There's quite a few.

 

It's likely that your BIOS doesn't have NVMe compatibility for booting. It has some NVMe compatibility since it's recognized or maybe the adapter has it's own storage controller driver thing? You could patch it in yourself because I highly doubt MSI has a new BIOS out for it.

[WereCat]

Bootable NVME is officially supported since Z97... AM3 is way older than that, you will need to modify your BIOS manually for it to work.

[AshleyAshes]

I'm not even sure NVME BIOS modifications are possible for such an old board.

 

Most mods involve pulling the surprisingly modular elements out of one UEFI and inserting them into another.  Pre UEFI stuff on the other hand, it's likely not even possible.