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

  • Alpha71@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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    5 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.