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‎02-13-2020 01:46 PM

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Product: Z800
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I'm thinking about purchase these.

Samsung 970 EVO SSD 1TB - M.2 NVMe

EZDIY-FAB PCI Express M.2 SSD NGFF PCIe Card to PCIe 3.0 x4 M2 Adapter

I have update the Bios to the latest version that's available for Z800. What are you thoughts? Will it work? I'm thinking of using it has a boot drive. What are some things that I should pay attention to when doing this?

Thanks!

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‎02-14-2020 10:22 AM

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Greetings,

Welcome back to the forum.

I am not a HP employee.

 

The Z800 looks to be a Legacy system.

 

You need native M.2 support to use a M.2 PCIe drive such as a Samsung 970 as a boot drive. 

 

You can add a PCIe to M.2 adapter but may be limited to only using the 970 as a data drive.

 

There may be a workaround but I am not aware of any way to do this.

 

Regards

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‎02-14-2020 02:27 PM

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@Grzwacz,     You are correct.

@chucklor, Thank you for your links. Your theory is excellent. but had an issue.

"A NVMe based M.2 SSD is different than a AHCI based M.2 SSD..... The BIOS of the Z600/Z400/Z800 does not support NVMe". The source of this comment can be found here.

 

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‎02-14-2020 05:07 PM

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I got it installed but when I try to install Windows, I got this message. Based on the link you provide above, I assumed there is no way to make it a bootable drive then, correct?

windows-install.jpg

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‎02-15-2020 06:35 AM

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Hi,

 

The error message in your last post confirms your PC cannot boot to a 970 installed in a PCIe/M.2 adapter.

 

Your PC's BIOS does not support this function.

 

Regards

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‎02-15-2020 09:41 AM

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@chucklor,

Apparently you did not fully understand the link I posted. You system does not accept NVMe as a boot device.

This system is feedback driven thru Solution and Kudo flags. It's the only means of knowing if you have been served. Please click Accept as Solution, if your problem is solved. To say THANK YOU, press the "thumbs up symbol" to render a KUDO. You can render both Solution and KUDO..

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‎02-15-2020 10:21 AM

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I've read that some people use Clover boot manager to make it work and I've also seen this YouTube video regarding similar error. However, I don't know their hardware spec.

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