Windows 10: Can't Boot from Samsung 960 EVO M.2 Drive, Sort Of

installed W10 on the above drive. When I try to boot from it, it doesn't work. It says insert boot media. I had already installed W10 on the drive. And I can see the drive in BIOS and windows explorer when booting from another drive.

Oddly, when I boot from an SSD drive also connected, that works, but it asks if I want to use W10 on Volume 4 or 7. When I choose 4, the Samsung M.2 drive does indeed boot.

Anyone know what is going on? Obviously I want to boot from the M.2 without needing another boot drive.

Thanks.

CPU - i7 6700K
Board - Z170A M3 Gaming
RAM - G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 SDRAM
OS - Windows 10 Pro
GPU - none
Sound Card - None

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Windows 10 Anniversary update for 32GB eMMC budget laptops?

I have a NUC with i5 processor Bought with 2G Ram and 32G emmc. I had no problem with upgrading to 128G and 4G. I copied the installed emmc using a usb reader to a





Samsung 250GB 960 Evo M.2 SSD

and samsungs proprietory program to copy installed emmc to samsung then swapped in new hdd no worries afert that

Perhaps ditching your 32G emmc is an answer?

 

Windows 10 not starting after I upgraded bios on MSi B250M Bazooka!

I upgraded my WD blue to an Samasung 850 Evo then a 960 Evo. I first cloned the Hard Disk to the SATA SSD & it worked, then I cloned it to the M.2 NVME SSD & it was starting from the SATA SSD. I had to format both the SATA SSD and Hard Disk to make
it work on the M.2 NVME. I did that by going into Disk Management & I had to get the drives hot swappable in the bios beforehand. I had my SATA data & power cables off on both Hard Disk & SSD. The NVME M.2 960 Evo worked I got the drives online & I formatted
them, otherwise it was booting of SATA drives instead of my NVME M.2 no matter how much I fiddled with it in the bios trying to set 960 Evo as the first drive to boot. I recently did a bios update to my MSi B250M Bazooka.

All the drives were installed I did not think to get them offline while I was updating the bios. The only bootable one being 960 Evo M.2 NVME the other 2 formatted. I have looked for a way to do this my self but I didn't make much progress. I managed
to reinstall Windows on the Sata 850 Evo.

My Computer is a CyberPowerPC ET8282-2162 Model C Series. I upgraded the processor to a i7 7700K from a i5 7400 & changed the video card to a 1080 Ti. I tried to figure out a way of creating a system restore on the 850 Evo & move the file to the 960 Evo
because it does not see a system restore file created. I tried all the troubleshooting ways possible. I am currently trying to get Windows media creation tool & run that off an USB see if that gives me any other options.

I tried to go to diskpart and listed the volumes & see if I can copy the recovery or system to the 960 Evo NVME M.2 drive but I don't know if it will work or it will still tell me I have no recovery file saved. I should of had 1 when I upgraded to
fall creators update but it's telling me I don't have one, I don't have other drives where I have Windows 10 clones because I deleted them if 960 Evo got corrupted somehow. Good thing is that I can still see the drive & I haven't lost any files. I have steam
games bitdefender installed & I still have another 7 months or so out of the subscription. I am afraid with a new install it will see it as a new computer. Is there a way to port over the Apps installed on the 960 Evo to the 850 Evo & then I can clone the
960 Evo with the fresh install.

I did the same thing on a CyberPowerPC ET8260-5322 I upgraded the CPU to a 1700X changed the ram to 3200 Mhz the videocard stayed the same 580 4Gb. I have the same 960 Evo & Hard Disk in it & I haven't have a problem with it. The Bios update on the
AMD setup was fine while the Intel suffered. On the AMD I have like 15 days of Kaspersky so I wouldn't of had a problem reinstalling Windows on that anyway + other apps as usual, which will take a while to install. I'd rather not do that if I can.

Thank you for your Help!

 

Make sure to change the boot order in BIOS so that the 960 is listed first.

 

did that. and also unplugged the SSD, leaving just the M.2 doesn't work.

 

Have you installed Samsung's NVMe driver?

 

The problem is that the OP installed Windows onto the second SSD while the first SSD was still connected. Instead of putting separate boot files on the second SSD, it set up dual booting off the first SSD.

 

Thanks for making that concise Navy. It I were faced with that situation I would unplug the first SSD, install Windows on to the new 960 then plug the old SSD back in and format it (after backing up any personal files).

 

feeling dumb. looks like I didn't disconnect all other drives when installing. Never had that problem before. Anyway, thanks much.

 

np, its best to unplug any secondary drives if you're doing a clean install.

 

All you have to do is shrink the OS partition by 100 MB, create an EFI System partition, and use the bcdboot command to put the boot files on it.