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Installing windows 10 with optane

Perseus
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I watched Linus's video about using optane for a steam drive and bought some Optane.  I installed the software for it but got forced into safe mode.  I had the wrong bios. 

 

To make thing short I made a huge mess of it and now I need to reinstall Windows (Tried to reinstall windows already, said I couldn't use the drive because it was a gpt drive, so i formatted and it still wouldn't work) 

 

Does anyone have some advice on what I need to do in my Bios,  z370xp sli (i7 8700k) to install windows on my M.2 SSD (980 evo) and also use optane to accelerate my data drive. 

 

Just doing a clean install. already removed my data drives from the case so I don't blow it up even more. Am now on F8 Bios. 

 

So I need correct bios settings to make this all work.

 

And help with gpt vs mbr?

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10 minutes ago, Perseus said:

Does anyone have some advice on what I need to do in my Bios,  z370xp sli (i7 8700k) to install windows on my M.2 SSD (980 evo) and also use optane to accelerate my data drive. 

I would return the optane SSD. You can't accelerate an NVMe SSD with optane; plus it'd be pretty useless since Optane wouldn't be that much faster in most things, unless you're talking about the 900p.

 

If you're talking about accelerating another HDD, I'd still say it's not worth it. You could use Intel's RST tool to just partition part of your SSD to accelerate the HDD. Or even buy a new 250gb SSD.

 

If you need help reinstalling windows, first make sure you're choosing to install windows on the SSD, not optane. Also make sure in bios boot is set to uefi only

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2 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

I would return the optane SSD. You can't accelerate an NVMe SSD with optane; plus it'd be pretty useless since Optane wouldn't be that much faster in most things, unless you're talking about the 900p.

 

If you're talking about accelerating another HDD, I'd still say it's not worth it. You could use Intel's RST tool to just partition part of your SSD to accelerate the HDD. Or even buy a new 250gb SSD.

 

If you need help reinstalling windows, first make sure you're choosing to install windows on the SSD, not optane. Also make sure in bios boot is set to uefi only

Ok. I was unaware I could use a tool to do the same thing. 

 

Can you tell me more about the UEFI thing? What setting is that?

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57 minutes ago, Perseus said:

Can you tell me more about the UEFI thing? What setting is that?

It should be in your boot order settings. There should be something along the lines of "boot mode" that'll have the options of Legacy, UEFI, and Legacy/UEFI. See if that might help.

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