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Having troubles getting windows to work on new NVME. (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Alpha71@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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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

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[-] Presi300@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Nah, your problem was probably not with your file system, you probably created the windows boot USB with a legacy MBR partition table, instead of a GPT one.

[-] Alpha71@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

either way windows is installed on the new drive now.

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