[SOLVED] Boot from NVMe Drive X570 Plus Wifi R7 3700x

[Plith]

Just swapped my motherboard and CPU and got a new nvme drive which I have already installed and am running windows from currently.

I am trying to wipe my old ssd so I can use it for games but I am unable to do so with diskpart ran as admin. I get an error saying it cant clean the drive running windows.

when I boot my pc I have to choose which disk I want to boot from I just want to wipe the ssd so I don't have to choose a drive on start up.

I tried changing the boot drive in the bios but only see the ssd as a option for boot device. I usually don't mess with the bios because I don't know enough to feel confident I'm not going to screw something up.

Do I need to change something in the bios for the nvme to be the main boot drive?

 

[USAFRet]

This is almost certainly because you installed the new OS on the new drive, while you had the OLD drive still connected.

The easiest solution is to redo the install on the NVMe drive.
With ONLY the NVMe drive connected.

Then, you can wipe the old drive as desired.

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[Plith]

I didnt connect the old drive until I had installed the OS onto the new drive

 

[USAFRet]

I didnt connect the old drive until I had installed the OS onto the new drive

Then the system is still trying to boot from the old drive. At least the System Reserved partition.

 

[Plith]

Yeah I'm not sure what is going on. I don't really want to do an new install since I spent all day reinstalling programs. I made sure not to connect the old drives until I had a fresh install on the new drive. Should I just get a third party disk tool?

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah I'm not sure what is going on. I don't really want to do an new install since I spent all day reinstalling programs. I made sure not to connect the old drives until I had a fresh install on the new drive. Should I just get a third party disk tool?

This sounds like just a problem with the BIOS boot order.

 

[Plith]

I tried to adjust the boot order but the nvme is not an option. Is there something I can change in the bios before selecting the boot drive?

 

[USAFRet]

I tried to adjust the boot order but the nvme is not an option. Is there something I can change in the bios before selecting the boot drive?

"Windows Boot Manager"

 

[Plith]

Thanks I'll try that

 

[Plith]

Windows boot manager didn't work. Did a full reinstall Windows 10 on new drive and still have the same issue.

 

[Plith]

May have solved it. When I installed I partitioned the whole drive for windows which didn't leave room for the other partitions which were being pulled from the other drive I was trying to wipe. Currently reinstalling windows. I'll update if this was the issue.

 

[Plith]

Yeah that worked.