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‎06-05-2020 02:20 PM

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Product: Example: H8-1070UK Pavillion HPE
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit)

I've bought a PCIe to M.2 adapter and a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 500GB SSD. I've put them together and inserted them into a free PCIe x 1 slot in my H8-1070uk desktop. The motherboard is HP IPISB-CH2 (Chicago) made by Pegatron.

 

The new SSD is a clone of my current C drive which is a 250GB SSD. I now want to make the new larger PCIe mounted NVMe M.2 SSD the boot drive.

 

I can see the new drive in windows explorer, however the new SSD is not showing up in the BIOS boot order so I cant give it boot priority over the current c drive.

Can anyone advise if I have missed something or is it actually maybe not possible to have a PCIe mounted SSD boot drive ?.

 

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‎06-05-2020 02:40 PM

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@davis_hunter,

Any NMVe would be better served in a PCIex4 slot, not a PCIex1 slot.  x1 is 4 times SLOWER.

If it were to boot, that would only happen when you removed the previous 250GB 2.5 SSD.

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‎06-05-2020 03:05 PM

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Hi

I understand the speed restriction and accept it. This SSD will eventually go into any new desktop I buy which will have newer guts to make it quicker. My H8-1070uk was bought in 2010 and only has PCIe x 1 slots free or a PCIe minicard slot. 

 

I intend to have 2 SSD's in the system. I'm going to use the current 250GB SSD as fast storage. Are you saying I cant have both in the system at the same time ?, The 250GB is SATA whereas the 500GB is PCIe. Do I have to disconnect the 250GB to let the machine somehow discover the new boot drive (500gb) and then put the 250GB SSD back in afterwards ?

 

Thanks

 

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‎06-06-2020 10:19 AM

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@davis_hunter,

If you disconnect the 250GB SATA drive, the NMVe would have a chance to boot. Right now, it is linked to SATA O port as the boot. If it does boot, and you want the 250GB SATA drive as data, you will need to use an external USB to SATA adapter to format that drive after the boot up. Right now there is conflict.

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‎06-06-2020 10:54 AM

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Thanks for the reply

I removed the 250GB SSD (took the power and data cables off it) and unfortunately when rebooting it did not discover the PCIe 500GB SSD with OS on it. I got a not discovered or boot drive failed message.

 

I removed the PCIe drive, took the NVMe 970 Pro out of the PCIe adapter and put it into an M.2/SATA  adapter and supplied the boot drive power and data cables to it. Again I got not discovered or boot drive failed error. I'm going to re-check I have put the M.2/SATA toghether properly and try again but it is seeming more likely I should ditch this idea, return the parts and just get a bigger (1TB) Sata SSD for a straight clone and swap out with the current 250GB SSD

 

Underneath all of this i'm getting a strong feeling the Motherboard doesn't support what I am trying to do here.

Again thanks very much for your help.

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