ikonix360
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I just installed a NVME drive in my 10 year old PC using a PCI-E X4 adapter. According to Crystal Disk Mark 8 the NVME drive is quite a bit faster than the SATA SSD.
Windows recognizes the drive fine, but won't boot to it which I expected to be the case.
However I did find where I can create a bootloader on a thumb drive with an NVME driver on it and boot to the NVME disk.
I tried Clover as that's the first bootloader I found and I used Boot Disk Utility.
That didn't work so good. Probably because that's moreso meant for a Mac and mine is Windows.
What bootloader will work for a Windows compatible computer?
Also the original SATA SSD I want to use as a fully functional backup of the main drive so that if the NVME drive messes up I can use the SATA drive and boot right up by selecting it in the bootloader then repair it or simply re-clone the SATA drive to it using Mini Tool Partition Wizard. What software would I need for that?
If I can get this working I have a second identical PC which I use for streaming that I want to do the same thing to.
Windows recognizes the drive fine, but won't boot to it which I expected to be the case.
However I did find where I can create a bootloader on a thumb drive with an NVME driver on it and boot to the NVME disk.
I tried Clover as that's the first bootloader I found and I used Boot Disk Utility.
That didn't work so good. Probably because that's moreso meant for a Mac and mine is Windows.
What bootloader will work for a Windows compatible computer?
Also the original SATA SSD I want to use as a fully functional backup of the main drive so that if the NVME drive messes up I can use the SATA drive and boot right up by selecting it in the bootloader then repair it or simply re-clone the SATA drive to it using Mini Tool Partition Wizard. What software would I need for that?
If I can get this working I have a second identical PC which I use for streaming that I want to do the same thing to.