Question BIOS wont recognize my M.2 ssd as boot drive?

[ajjsak]

Hi.

I got an m.2 ssd for christmas (Corsair MP510) and wanted to migrate my OS to this drive to use it as boot drive for faster OS and such. The other drive i have is a 1TB HDD which is partitioned into two, one being the boot drive. So i watched and red tutorials, installed the m.2 and cloned my boot partition to the m.2. I knew that I had to set the boot prio straight so i went ahead and did that aswell. After rebooting a couple of times and checking over and over i still cant seem to get it right. It still says that my boot drive is C: (the HDD) even though i have cloned the files to the SSD. The drive icon on the "this pc" tab for C: (the original boot drive) still has a windows logo on it aswell. This is way out of my league and I cant get it right. Please help.

Specs:
OS - Windows 10 Pro 64bit
MB - MSI Gaming M7
CPU - Intel core i7700k
HDD - WD 1TB HDD
M.2 SSD - Corsair Force MP510 480GB NVMe PCIe Gen3 x4

 

[ajjsak]

Put the USB back in and try it again.

Alright, but if it wont boot from the m.2 because it is not UEFI then how do i make it UEFI? If thats the problem that is..

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

Suspect cloning has not been done properly.

 

[ajjsak]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

Suspect cloning has not been done properly.

I havent cloned this is a fresh install of windows

 

[SkyNetRising]

Anyway - show the screenshot.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[ajjsak]

Anyway - show the screenshot.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

https://imgur.com/a/iZBYBhu

View: https://imgur.com/a/iZBYBhu
here its in swedish unfortunately. idk if this will give you anything

 

[USAFRet]

Disk 0 is...your old drive? A 1TB something?
Disk 1 is the new 480GB Corsair SSD?

If so...you have not installed the OS on the new Corsair drive!

 

[SkyNetRising]

here its in swedish unfortunately. idk if this will give you anything

OS is installed on 1TB drive.
Perform cloning as suggested in post $4.

Clone only 100MB System Reserved and 194GB C: partition to 480GB drive.
First boot from cloned drive must be with old drive disconnected. If old drive is connected, while you do first boot from new one, you'll have to redo cloning.

 

[ajjsak]

OS is installed on 1TB drive.
Perform cloning as suggested in post $4.

Clone only 100MB System Reserved and 194GB C: partition to 480GB drive.
First boot from cloned drive must be with old drive disconnected. If old drive is connected, while you do first boot from new one, you'll have to redo cloning.

I kinda want to do a fresh install though.. But for some reason my BIOS doesnt want the m.2 to be boot drive. im hella confused.
Also i couldn't clone since the HDD and the M.2 have different sector sizes?

 

[ajjsak]

Disk 0 is...your old drive? A 1TB something?
Disk 1 is the new 480GB Corsair SSD?

If so...you have not installed the OS on the new Corsair drive!

Yes i removed it before starting up the pc to take a screenshot in fear of something bad happening! I couldm't get it to boot from the M.2!

 

[USAFRet]

OK then...a clean install on the new drive.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

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DISCONNECT ALL OTHER DRIVES when you do this install.

 

[ajjsak]

OK then...a clean install on the new drive.

How To - Windows 10 clean install tutorial

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DISCONNECT ALL OTHER DRIVES when you do this install.

Ill for sure try again but when i did it the last time, exactly as the guide follows, i couldnt get to the cortana step. It simply restarted my computer and loaded the USB, when i tried to put the windows that had just been installed on the M.2 on top of the load order Hard Drive: ForceMP510 and rebooted it just said ”reboot and select proper bootdevice or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key”.. The M.2 is not marked as UEFI in BIOS, maybe that will fix it but I dont know how to change it to UEFI.