Windows 10: new m.2 pcie ssd

Hi,

Sure but as it stands now you have your boot files and system partitions on drive 1 not 0 which I assume is your M2 SSD.
So, what happens at boot is that Windows looks for Disk 1 and then loads the OS on the M2.
Same thing as if you'd make a simple USB stick bootable that does not contain an OS and select to boot from that through your bios/efi boot manager.


That can all be fixed by jiggling around the partitions etc. But it seems far easier to me reinstall W10 with all the other disks removed. When that succeeds you can do whatever you like with the other drives as they no longer are part and parcel of your OS.


Cheers, *Wink

 

I thought you said it didn't show in BIOS or Disk management. I would disconnect all other drives and boot into the PCIe SSD. That is just to make sure it will boot on it's own. After that you can format or remove anything on the old drive if you want to. I hope this is what you are asking. Maybe I got the question right this time. As long as it will boot on its own and there is nothing on the old OS that you need, just delete the partitions and create whatever partitions you want.

 

fdegrove is correct. Your boot files are on another drive. As it stands now, you can't boot without both drives installed. Your best bet is to follow fdegrove's suggestions and reinstall to the PCIe SSD. remove all other drives (disconnect 1 wire) before the install. That will put all necessary files on the PCIe. Then you can delete anything not needed on the old drive and set it up however you want.

 

Hi,

As it shows in the screenshot of disk management it can't boot from drive 0 on its own. It needs disk 1 to do so.
Hence my recommendations, either copy the system partitions from disk one to disk 0 or remove all other drives bar the M2 and reinstall W10 so it can create all required partitions for a UEFI install.
I prefer the latter as it should be faster unless TS has already a ton of software installed.

Cheers, *Wink

EDIT: Sorry for the cross posting, Essenbe.

 

It doesn't show on the bios screen or in the bios boot page. Does show in Windows setup and Windows diskmanagement

 

I will try the suggestions tomorrow and report vback

 

Hi,

Surely it must show up somewhere in bios ??
That it does not show in bios boot page is normal as it's not a bootable drive yet.
I've never known Windows to detect drives that aren't detected by bios and let you install on it.

Cheers, *Wink

 

No problem, you had it right to begin with.

 

Ok geting late. Will report back tomorrow

 

OK. I disabled the old C: drive in the bios. Then I installed Build 14367 on the new M.2 SSD. I used the UEFI boot option and windows made the four partitions on the M.2 SSD. Up and running.


EDIT: Thanks for all the help everyone.

 

Glad you have it running like you want.

 

I'm guessing the M.2 "bios" screen doesn't stay on the screen very long.

 

I cleaned installed 14367 on the M.2 SSD. Build runs a lot faster.

The other two drives I cleaned with DISKPART and converted them to GPT.

Most of my Data is on my NAS4FREE NAS.

 

Great, I'm glad it is working well for you. Fdegrove deserves most of the credit for helping you.