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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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[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

You didn't answer my other questions. Which slot is the drive in? If it's not the first one, the one with the heatsink/heatshield by the CPU, try installing it there. You should also make sure your BIOS is up to date.

It's stupid, but some boards don't like to boot from the other slots or might only do so after a BIOS update.

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