HP 8200 sff bios j01 vo2.29 vs PCIE m.2 SSD.

[Old_man1]

My 8200 SFF now upgraded to  bios j01 v02.29 and working just fine. If I upgrade it to PCIE m.2 SSD, can it be bootable from this PCIE SSD? Thank in advance if one can advice me about this.  

[savvy2]

8200 small form factor running what OS? ill guess W7-64 of the many.

my guesss is SSD

how to upgrade to SSD.

easy

clone it. ( ask, its tricky,  takes 2 drives at one time , ask)

or put it (hdd out) in and reinstall  OS from scratch using your HP media install kit.

one is backed up sure.

or use the old HDD as backup. your all.

btw , just did 5 LT to SSD (HP only and many other brands)  beed doing it since first ever clone programs existed .

some clone

some free w7 and some w10 fresh.

so.... ask... tell helper exactly what you want to do and if your data i backed up or NOT.

[Old_man1]

Thank you very much savvy2 for your quick response. However, it was my fault , my question was not clear enough. My 8200 OS is now Win10 pro and also has already migrated to sumsung SATA SSD (850 EVO) and working just fine as mentioned before.

It is my new ambition to replace the existing SATA SSD with a M.2 one which has much higher read/write speed but need to connect to mother board through the PCIE port not SATA port , the M.2 SSD can fit into  PCIE port via a M.2-PCIE interface which available in market.

My doubt is now about the bootng of this machine from PCIE port, because the 8200 seems to be older stuff when comparing with the M.2 SSD (if I am wrong please correct me) , however, I got a dream  by the fact that its latest bios like this v02.29 was dated 4/4/2016  (I  believe the latest update) and  hope it was set with capability to enable my old 8200 to be booted from PCIE ports. So, my question is wether my 8200 can be booted by SSD from PCIE port or not ?

Thanks savvy2 again for your answer.

[Grzwacz · Accepted solution]

Hello Old_man1

Have you talked to HP Support on this?

That is a tough one to answer without inside knowledge.

This HP Support link gives some details on what each BIOS update fixes or enhances. I don't see any reference to booting from PCIe devices. It does fix Legacy and UEFI boot sources.

Enter the BIOS and see if there is a Boot using PCIE device option available.

If you can do this, you may not get the read/write speeds the M.2 drive is capable of due to the age of your PC and possible legacy  x16 bottleneck (PCIE 1.0 or 2.0 versus PCIE 3.0)

Grzy

[Old_man1]

Thanks Grzwacz for your interesting info. about the bios and the limitations of the 8200 when working with M.2 pcie SSD.

I haven't contact to HP support yet, let me  look into the bios first and may try to talk with them later on.

In the mean time, let close my this raised question for a while , may be.

[Old_man1]

Hello Grzwacz

Already looked into the update info. of this v02.29 as suggested and did't see any reference to booting from PCIE as well.

So, I now stop thinking about this for the moment, any how, and wait and see untill HP will have an update to help this fixed, this 8200 maybe too old for them.

Thanks again, so far, to both of you, Grzwacz and Savvy2.

Old_man1