ASRock Extreme6ac motherboard (newest BIOS)
Samsung 970Pro NVMe drive (new)
Samsung 860Evo drive (old OS drive)
I used the Samsung migration tool to clone my OS drive onto the new 970Pro. Everything went smoothly. BIOS recognizes the 970Pro under the NVMe storage menu. But when I try to adjust boot order, the NVMe drive is not on the list. HOWEVER if I just use the F11 quick-select boot menu during POST (versus entering into BIOS), the NVMe drive is shown and boots perfectly once selected. No matter which drive I use to boot into Windows, Windows can always see all the drives. I just can't set the new NVMe drive to boot by default.
I did search. Only answers I could find involved reinstalling Windows from scratch. I can't find my Windows Key. And I know I've also used this Key to activate several times (rebuilding/upgrading). I've called into Microsoft several times and had them give me a code to activate my copy again and again. And I had to argue with them about it last time (even that was like 3 years ago). There's no way I could use this Key to activate again, even if I could find it. Point being, I just need the clone to work.
Samsung 970Pro NVMe drive (new)
Samsung 860Evo drive (old OS drive)
I used the Samsung migration tool to clone my OS drive onto the new 970Pro. Everything went smoothly. BIOS recognizes the 970Pro under the NVMe storage menu. But when I try to adjust boot order, the NVMe drive is not on the list. HOWEVER if I just use the F11 quick-select boot menu during POST (versus entering into BIOS), the NVMe drive is shown and boots perfectly once selected. No matter which drive I use to boot into Windows, Windows can always see all the drives. I just can't set the new NVMe drive to boot by default.
I did search. Only answers I could find involved reinstalling Windows from scratch. I can't find my Windows Key. And I know I've also used this Key to activate several times (rebuilding/upgrading). I've called into Microsoft several times and had them give me a code to activate my copy again and again. And I had to argue with them about it last time (even that was like 3 years ago). There's no way I could use this Key to activate again, even if I could find it. Point being, I just need the clone to work.