Start windows on PCIe card

[Max___1911]

Hello community
I have this situation
an old P6T deluxe V1 motherboard;
a 250gb hard drive (we call it C: );
Samsung XP941 128gb with a PCIe host adapter. (we call it E: )

I want to start windows 10 in the pci disk (E: )
I'm not sure about the compatibility with my motherboard,
If it's not compatible, which workaround can i apply for make windows start from the drive?
I thought a symbolic link of the whole windows folder, a sort of ... (make the only essential files for boot should remain in C: but everything else in E: )
Hope you can enlighten me

 

[drtweak]

Pretty sure the X58 chipset is too old to support booting from PCIe. PCIe booting is something fairly new and not all board support it. Even some new severs don't even support it yet. The way you know if it does support it is if you hook it up, and you go into the BIOS and if you see it in the boot items or not. This is for booting though, as far as using it an just a normal drive I'm not sure. Pretty sure all you need is the needed drivers to use it as a data storage device but again not sure on that one but as far as booting i doubt you can.

 

[Max___1911]

Pretty sure the X58 chipset is too old to support booting from PCIe. PCIe booting is something fairly new and not all board support it. Even some new severs don't even support it yet. The way you know if it does support it is if you hook it up, and you go into the BIOS and if you see it in the boot items or not. This is for booting though, as far as using it an just a normal drive I'm not sure. Pretty sure all you need is the needed drivers to use it as a data storage device but again not sure on that one but as far as booting i doubt you can.

Thank you for your answer
It works in windows very good, but in the BIOS i'm not able to pick it as boot device (should it appear in boot /hard drive disk selection list?)
I read around that someone was able to boot the revodrive, isn't it similar?
About the virtual link thing, is there something i can do? Thanks

 

[drtweak]

Well the RevoDrive was made around the same time as the X58 and it does support that but it is also different hardware than what you got. Just because it is PCIe doesn't mean it will work.

What PCIe adapter card did you get? Also do you have the lastest BIOS installed?

 

[Max___1911]

Lycom DT-120 http://www.lycom.com.tw/DT-120.htm
the bios is the latest

ps. clicked on best solution by mistake

edit: it doesn't work because of UEFI, am i right?

 

[drtweak]

Yea i think it requires UEFI to boot for the M.2 ones. Not sure about the over Revo PCIe guys

 

[Max___1911]

Thank you for your help
I opted for sata2 ssd raid 0
bottlenecked but better than nothing