Recent content by Drklighter

Thanks for replying... I did try all that... there was only the one NVME drive (primary for new Windows), which was in the slot not shared with the SATA ports. PSU is a newer Antec 850w. I'm going to chalk it up to a partition/formatting issue, since once I made the old drives raw again, I was...

Hello - Thanks for the replies... turns out I had to make the drives raw again (or format them on a Win10 system) to get them to work. I now have a working system. I would conclude that Win10 will not recognize Win7 partitions when connected directly to the SATA ports on the mobo - although it...

Thanks... the files were backed up previously, and I understand how a drive containing an old Windows install would mess things up, but I don't get how a pure data drive would have the same result.

Thanks for the replies! The NVME drive is in the top/CPU handled slot to take advantage of the PCIe4x4. The old drives I am trying to attach are a combo of primary and data drives from an old Windows 7 system... I have tried each in turn to eliminate the possibility of an older boot...

This is a first for me: Just did a major upgrade on my roommate's computer (CPU - Intel 11th Gen/RAM - 16GB/Mobo - Gigabyte Z590 Gaming X/Storage - 2TB Firecuda NVME). I installed Windows 10 on the new NVME drive, no issues, even after several reboots. When I try to add one of his old SATA...