Hi all,
So I know this has been covered because I have been scouring the internet looking for solution, of which there have been plenty suggested, but none that seem to apply to me, and the more I read, the more confused I am becoming.
Basically, I used to boot to Windows 7 from my Samsung 850 Evo SSD. It was great. Pretty quick etc. It was an MBR drive and booted in AHCI. Again that was fine. Didn't cause any problems. Worked as it should.
My motherboard (Gigabyte GA-z97X-SLI LGA 1150) has an M.2 port on it. I thought id get one and try it out. My idea was to boot from the new drive (Samsung 960 EVO NVMe) and run programs from it for shorter load times etc. I was not expecting a huge decrease but maybe a slight one. After a bit of messing about (flashing MOBO firmware and installing drivers) I got it working. I cloned my original SSD to it and booted from it. It worked...but it is significantly slower to boot than my original drive. Once into windows it operates well, but boot times are like 1min 30ish now. The original boot times were around 10-15 seconds. There doesn't seem to be any hang up in the BIOS though. The major delay is after POST. Once the Gigabyte symbol has flashed on the screen and disappeared, I am left looking at a black screen for the remaining time until windows login shows up. After login, the rest loads normally.
Now having cloned the drive, the NVMe drive was initialized as MBR like the original SSD. I didn't think it would matter since the drive size is only 240gb. I have been reading online now though and a lot of people suggest that GPT is better (which I thought only suitable for Windows 10), and not only that but to boot UEFI.
So down to my question. If it is possible, could I convert the NVMe drive to GPT using a program (maybe EaseUS or something) and then change the mobo settings to UEFI instead of AHCI? Would this fix my problem? Or is a completely fresh install now needed to rectify the boot times? I would ideally not want to fresh install windows as that would mean losing some programs that I would not be able to get back.
I realize that its not a huge issue, and although I didn't expect much of a decrease, I certainly didn't expect any increases in load times, but after paying for what should be a faster drive, I would like to at least try to get it working properly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
So I know this has been covered because I have been scouring the internet looking for solution, of which there have been plenty suggested, but none that seem to apply to me, and the more I read, the more confused I am becoming.
Basically, I used to boot to Windows 7 from my Samsung 850 Evo SSD. It was great. Pretty quick etc. It was an MBR drive and booted in AHCI. Again that was fine. Didn't cause any problems. Worked as it should.
My motherboard (Gigabyte GA-z97X-SLI LGA 1150) has an M.2 port on it. I thought id get one and try it out. My idea was to boot from the new drive (Samsung 960 EVO NVMe) and run programs from it for shorter load times etc. I was not expecting a huge decrease but maybe a slight one. After a bit of messing about (flashing MOBO firmware and installing drivers) I got it working. I cloned my original SSD to it and booted from it. It worked...but it is significantly slower to boot than my original drive. Once into windows it operates well, but boot times are like 1min 30ish now. The original boot times were around 10-15 seconds. There doesn't seem to be any hang up in the BIOS though. The major delay is after POST. Once the Gigabyte symbol has flashed on the screen and disappeared, I am left looking at a black screen for the remaining time until windows login shows up. After login, the rest loads normally.
Now having cloned the drive, the NVMe drive was initialized as MBR like the original SSD. I didn't think it would matter since the drive size is only 240gb. I have been reading online now though and a lot of people suggest that GPT is better (which I thought only suitable for Windows 10), and not only that but to boot UEFI.
So down to my question. If it is possible, could I convert the NVMe drive to GPT using a program (maybe EaseUS or something) and then change the mobo settings to UEFI instead of AHCI? Would this fix my problem? Or is a completely fresh install now needed to rectify the boot times? I would ideally not want to fresh install windows as that would mean losing some programs that I would not be able to get back.
I realize that its not a huge issue, and although I didn't expect much of a decrease, I certainly didn't expect any increases in load times, but after paying for what should be a faster drive, I would like to at least try to get it working properly.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
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