[SOLVED] Samsung 970 EVO drive won't boot

[arjaytee]

Hi having previously installed an OCZ SSD on my PC I thought it would be easy to install the above and make it the boot drive. Alas not so. The PC sees the new drive and I have used the samsung Data migration software to colone the soon to be redundant OCZ drive across. But when i go into the Bios on my Gigabyte H97-D3H it has three options for the boot order and nothing I do will make the 970 EVO appear there as one of the options. Have read re re-installing windows after removing all drives except the 970 EVO but cannot get it to work. Any ideas?

 

[karenjoly]

Clarify whether it is the clone on the 970 or a new install on the 970 that will not boot.

 

[arjaytee]

It is the clone on the 970 EVO

 

[karenjoly]

So the clone and the origin drive are both installed and you cannot boot the clone .


Can you boot the clone with the origin drive not attached ?

Can you boot the origin when the clone is not attached ?

 

[arjaytee]

So the clone and the origin drive are both installed and you cannot boot the clone .


Can you boot the clone with the origin drive not attached ?

Can you boot the origin when the clone is not attached ?

 

[arjaytee]

I can boot the original withor without the clone attached. I cannot boot the clone any way
I have tried to follow this set of instructions
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-create-windows-10-usb-bootable-media-uefi-support
But cannot get the USB drive to boot as it doesn't show up as an option in my BIOS.

 

[karenjoly]

Booting the old drive, look at disk management . Does the 970 show up and is it Online ?

 

[Calvin7]

That's not going to work without including the NVMe driver as the old drive was not NVMe.
https://forum.macrium.com/Topic21731-1.aspx

 

[arjaytee]

replying to Karen yes the 970 shows up under MyPC along with the other drives. When i try to disconnect all the other drives and then boot from a USB ISO it doesn't work - I guess because I cannot set the USB as the boot - I geta message boot drive not connected.
I have read that Windows includes a NVMe driver and in any case I have downloaded and installed the sony NVMe driver.
Think me problem is more to do with the limited list of boot drives that my Master board allows and the fact that i cannot seem to get the NVMe drive to show up there.

 

[karenjoly]

Have you created the usb install device recently according to the steps for the media creation tool ? Forget Rufus, eh ?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

 

[arjaytee]

Have you created the usb install device recently according to the steps for the media creation tool ? Forget Rufus, eh ?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

 

[arjaytee]

Hi problem solved, thanks to Gigabyte tech support, they asked me to install a later version of the BIOS - F7 I had F4 then it just went through like clockwork using gigabytes APP and then the @bios app, when it rebooted it was using the new drive so easy in the end. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.

 

[karenjoly]

great