OK, so my first NVME was a cheap Kingston 2 TB drive. Not very good. So I just bought a new WD Black SN850X. tried doing a fresh install of windows. didn’t work. said ‘fuck it’ and cloned my Kingston to the WD.

Now when I try booting off of the WD my BIOS detects it, but when i try to select it to boot from it doesn’t show up. only my old Kingston shows up.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z790 UD AC.

tried switching drive letters. didn’t work.

At wits end. Any suggestions?

Edit: sort of figured it out.

Pro tip, make sure your USB drive is formatted to the same file system as your nvme is.

First attempt was with a fat32 usb. This is what caused the problem.

Used a different USB formatted to ntsf. Seemes to be working now. Hopefully i will be anle to install windows now

  • tristanEnglish
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    9 months ago

    We are going to need more information than “didn’t work”

    What errors during windows install? What software did you use to clone it? Where are you trying to select it to boot from? In bios or in the windows boot option?

    • Alpha71@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Macrium Reflect to clone.

      Now when i go into BIOS, my WD drive is detected. But when I look into boot options it only shows boot option 1 which is the Kingston drive. The WD drive doesn’t show up at all. I tried booting without the Kingston drive installed, didn’t work. And i can find no way to select another drive to boot from.