I posted this on reddit asking for help 3 days ago.
I got a samsung 980 evo pro and i have a asus Prime B350-Plus motherboard. I'm aware that the m.2 works best with pcie slot gen 4 but i know it works fine with gen 3 mobo. I used the samsung data migration program to clone my data from my old sandisk 120gb ssd to the samsung 980 evo pro. but i made a mistake when checking disk partitions. I set the 980 to MBR but i have seen that it is best to set it to GPT. I've also made the mistake of rebooting with both drives in but i was able to set the 980 as the first boot priority. I've rebooted with only 980 to see if it cloned properly and it works just fine.
So now I'm trying to change the 980 from MBR to GPT but now that requires me to delete the partitions with Windows on it. Mind you, i still have the Sandisk with windows on it. I cant delete the os from 980 nor from the sandisk. And i dont know how to do so. I will have to learn how to anyway because I do plan to keep using the old drive but not as my boot drive.
I tried deleting the windows cloned partition using command prompt and using the DISKPART command lines. but no that does not work since its a bootable drive. Using Samsung Magician's Secure Erase feature made no changes either. At this point i want to factory reset the 980 but it still has everything saved on it. I'm at a complete loss what to do now.
UPDATE: I have found that in command there is a mbr2gpt command and when i tried to validate using: mbr2gpt /validate /disk:3 /allowFullOS i got a result saying validation failed. I have found that by shrinking my main partition on disk 3 by 100mb, that allowed me to validate and convert my new SSD from mbr to gpt. on reboot i set my bios to UEFI Only on all boot settings. And that finally worked.
after playing some time on morrowind, it wasnt installed on another HDD, no issues whatsoever. I installed Fortnite onto the new boot drive to test and maybe 30-40 minutes in, the screens went black, there was flickering on the screens, audio was still playing, i got some lines on the screen thinking that the gpu just got fried, and i only got one picture on one monitor with the prompt saying something about not enough memory on graphics video. I never had this issue before.
I restarted my computer, played deep rock galactic which was not installed on the new drive. after an hour or so, the same thing happened, only this time, no lines, i got both screens back and it took out discord with the crash with the same prompt. And the computer continued as normal only having to restart discord and close deep rock.
It's been a hellish few days and I really don't know what to do now. Only thing I can think of is clear my new drive, clone old drive ( i have not yet cleared it) into the new drive once again, and leave it as mbr. I don't even know if the new drive will still work without issue.
Ryzen 5 1600
Asus Prime B-350 (boot options set to UEFI Only)
MSI Rx 470 armor 4gb OC
Corsair 16 gb 2600 ram
Sandisk 120 gb (old boot drive, still has windows in it but not currently booted into, set as mbr)
Samsung 980 Evo Pro (cloned from sandisk, converted mbr2gpt using command prompt, shrunk part of the partition to able to convert)
2 other hdds that are set as mbr
Update: after updating drivers on gpu, game ctd and then i got a restart blue screen saying Stop Code: KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION. I got if after playing and hour of fortnite again
Update:So after upgrading Bios, it reverted back to UEFI+Legacy, i changed to UEFI. New drive does not show in boot order priorties, it only shows in UEFI+Legacy. However it created a windows boot manager in the 980 under UEFI. I keep going down this rabbit hole of bad juju.
I got a samsung 980 evo pro and i have a asus Prime B350-Plus motherboard. I'm aware that the m.2 works best with pcie slot gen 4 but i know it works fine with gen 3 mobo. I used the samsung data migration program to clone my data from my old sandisk 120gb ssd to the samsung 980 evo pro. but i made a mistake when checking disk partitions. I set the 980 to MBR but i have seen that it is best to set it to GPT. I've also made the mistake of rebooting with both drives in but i was able to set the 980 as the first boot priority. I've rebooted with only 980 to see if it cloned properly and it works just fine.
So now I'm trying to change the 980 from MBR to GPT but now that requires me to delete the partitions with Windows on it. Mind you, i still have the Sandisk with windows on it. I cant delete the os from 980 nor from the sandisk. And i dont know how to do so. I will have to learn how to anyway because I do plan to keep using the old drive but not as my boot drive.
I tried deleting the windows cloned partition using command prompt and using the DISKPART command lines. but no that does not work since its a bootable drive. Using Samsung Magician's Secure Erase feature made no changes either. At this point i want to factory reset the 980 but it still has everything saved on it. I'm at a complete loss what to do now.
UPDATE: I have found that in command there is a mbr2gpt command and when i tried to validate using: mbr2gpt /validate /disk:3 /allowFullOS i got a result saying validation failed. I have found that by shrinking my main partition on disk 3 by 100mb, that allowed me to validate and convert my new SSD from mbr to gpt. on reboot i set my bios to UEFI Only on all boot settings. And that finally worked.
after playing some time on morrowind, it wasnt installed on another HDD, no issues whatsoever. I installed Fortnite onto the new boot drive to test and maybe 30-40 minutes in, the screens went black, there was flickering on the screens, audio was still playing, i got some lines on the screen thinking that the gpu just got fried, and i only got one picture on one monitor with the prompt saying something about not enough memory on graphics video. I never had this issue before.
I restarted my computer, played deep rock galactic which was not installed on the new drive. after an hour or so, the same thing happened, only this time, no lines, i got both screens back and it took out discord with the crash with the same prompt. And the computer continued as normal only having to restart discord and close deep rock.
It's been a hellish few days and I really don't know what to do now. Only thing I can think of is clear my new drive, clone old drive ( i have not yet cleared it) into the new drive once again, and leave it as mbr. I don't even know if the new drive will still work without issue.
Ryzen 5 1600
Asus Prime B-350 (boot options set to UEFI Only)
MSI Rx 470 armor 4gb OC
Corsair 16 gb 2600 ram
Sandisk 120 gb (old boot drive, still has windows in it but not currently booted into, set as mbr)
Samsung 980 Evo Pro (cloned from sandisk, converted mbr2gpt using command prompt, shrunk part of the partition to able to convert)
2 other hdds that are set as mbr
Update: after updating drivers on gpu, game ctd and then i got a restart blue screen saying Stop Code: KERNEL_MODE_HEAP_CORRUPTION. I got if after playing and hour of fortnite again
Update:So after upgrading Bios, it reverted back to UEFI+Legacy, i changed to UEFI. New drive does not show in boot order priorties, it only shows in UEFI+Legacy. However it created a windows boot manager in the 980 under UEFI. I keep going down this rabbit hole of bad juju.