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Boot fail after win10 clone from Sata SSD to pcie SSD

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Hi All,

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Asus p8z68 pro gen 3..Intel I5 2500k..16GB Ram..Kingston A2000 on PCIE extender Board.

Updated (Modded)Bios v.3802 so that SSD discoverable.

So the story goes... (imagine the beginning of StarWars)

Initial plan...install win10 on A2000 on extender board in pcie slot...easy peasy lemon squeezy...:(

Windows only saw it as a storage drive and was not a boot option in bios.

went into disk management and initialised as MBR and formatted...ok

Still not discovered in bios boot option.

 

After a bit of digging the MOBO is 2011 so i needed to Modify the latest bios (v.3802) so the bios can see

the Kingston A2000 SSD on PCIE extender board.

Bios sees the A2000 but, on win10 install it says it cannot install to the selected drive and the install stops there.

if you search "Guide-How-to-get-full-NVMe-support-for-all-Systems-with-an-AMI-UEFI-BIOS"

I read on section 4. of that page on the win-raid website it may be possible to clone to the pice ssd.

 

I remember my packaging of the Kingston A2000 there was a software activation key for cloning software.

made a cup o' tea grabbed a few biccies and Acronis downloaded installed, activated and drive cloned to pcie A2000 ssd in about an hour...yay.

Disconnected opriginal C: drive no other drives or usb connected and pressed power on...

got the dreaded "install boot drive press any key to continue"

did a bit more digging and found not a lot.

 

i did look on msinfo and it says bios is legacy even though the bios is uefi enabled.

this is as far as i have got and hope someone can point me in the right direction.

im into this probaly 9hours deep over several days and a bit lost now.

is it a registry problem?

Ill stop waffleing

Ask if you need any additional details to help resolve this.

Cheers All

Stay Safe

Dave

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The backup software provided by OEM is built to the OEM specifications and the OEM is responsible for technical support (see here). However, members of the Acronis user community will endeavour to assist those with OEM versions. Sometimes OEM versions are based on older versions of ATI, and some features may be absent.

The full version of ATI will be able to deal with moving from Legacy to UEFI. However, it may be easier if you first migrate the existing windows installation to UEFI; abundant cautions suggests that you make a backup of the existing drive before doing so. Doing a search for "windows 10 convert from legacy to uefi" will give information on how to do that.

There is another issue; the use of the PCIe card to boot from an M.2 drive. Most such cards I have looked at do not support the use as a boot device. So even if the PC "BIOS" support booting from PCIe devices, it does not mean that it overcomes the limitations of the particular PCIe care.

I am sure others will have more advice on this somewhat unusual situation.

Ian

Hi Ian,

Thanks for your advice and input, it pointed me in the right direction.

I migrated the current windows from legacy to uefi and repeated the cloning of the source windows to the nvme drive and it worked.

You are greatly appreciated.

time for a celabratary cup o' tea and a biccie.

Cheers

D

 

Excellent news! Glad I was able to point you in the right direction.

Ian