Booting to an ssd m.2 Drive

[Jim-in_china]

I have cloned my standard hard drive to a 1 TB m.2 SSD drive. How do I boot to the SSD drive? I have tried going into the BIOS to change the boot order but the SSD drive does not show up.

[Jim-in_china]

I have an HP Pavilion Desktop 570-p026

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

What type of SSD did you install?

The PC only supports NVMe SSD's, not SATA.

If you installed a NVMe SSD, you need to temporarily disconnect the hard drive so the Windows boot manager automatically switches to the SSD.

Run the PC that way for a bit, restart it, shut it down make sure that everything works right on the SSD and then you can reconnect the hard drive.

If the Windows boot manager switches back to the SATA hard drive, you will need to completely remove Windows from the disk, so the boot manager doesn't try and boot from it anymore.

On HP PC's that come with dual drive configurations, Windows is only on the SSD and the hard drive is used for storage only.

[Jim-in_china]

This is the model I installed. Was able to add a a drive b4 I clones it.

Western Digital 1TB WD Blue SN570 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive SSD - Gen3 x4 PCIe 8Gb/s, M.2 2280, Up to 3,500 MB/s - WDS100T3B0C

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

Then unplug the 3.5" drive and the PC should boot from the SSD.