Possible upgrade of HP Elite 7300 Microtower PC with SSD NVME 4.0

[yasir2030]

Hi Members,

i am using 

HP Elite 7300 Microtower PC, 

I am looking to upgrade the Storage, is there a possibility that we can install "

SAMSUNG 980 PRO 1 TB PCIe 4.0 (bis zu 7.000 MB/s) NVMe M.2 (2280) Internes Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-V8P1T0BW)"

Directly into the Board or through PCI  Extension Card.

and will it be possible to run windows directly from the SSD and keep other HDDs as backup drives for data.

regards 

yasir

[itsmyname · Accepted solution]

> Operating System: Microsoft Windows 7 (64-Bit)

Microsoft terminated all support for Windows 7 in early 2020. You should take the free upgrade to Windows 10.

Once the motherboard recognizes the add-in PCIe adapter, and that the connected memory stick is emulating a disk-drive, you should be able to enter BIOS SETUP, and change the "Boot Order" to make the memory-stick the "primary" bootable device.

I doubt that any "BIOS update" will be required.

[yasir2030]

Thanks for your kind reply.

i have installed the SSD through PCIe adapter.

when i insert windows disk to install it shows the SSD and i made partition into it and started installation.

once it restart then it goes again back to new windows installation, and not to SSD.

it means my SSD is recognized in Bios and windows files are copied into it but its not booting to continue installation of windows.

Please can you confirm what is the change required to fix this issue.

Yasir 

[itsmyname]

@yasir2030 -- once it restart then it goes again back to new windows installation, and not to SSD.

Just before it restarts, remove the DVD from the CD/DVD drive, or remove the USB memory-stick.

Then, as it restarts, it will boot from the SSD, since the "Installer" software is not connected to the computer.

[yasir2030]

when i remove the installation Media it says there is no Drive to boot.

in the Boot menu even windows initial installation is copying to it, its not showing as a separate drive, so i can't select it even from Boot Drive.

when i connect the HDD along the SSD, then it comes the screen of "PC/Device  needs Repairs,"   it says required file is missing 

\windows\system32\winload.efi

in the below option,

when i select F9

it takes me to selection of other operating system which is installed on all drive which include the one installation on SSD and HDD,

the one on HDD is running smoothly but SSD it says needs Repairs.

Please can you suggest what is the way to resolve this issue.

regards

Yasir

[DGroves]

the best way to install windows (any version) is to disconnect all other storage devices except for the boot drive (C:) which will have windows installed to it, connect other drives AFTER windows is installed

next, you system is a older one that does not support booting from NVME devices, it can however use a nvme drive as a non booting data drive

you need a SATA based SSD (not nvme) in order to boot from it

only the newer Intel Chipsets (Z97 and X99 and newer) and their BIOSes, which include full NVMe support.

That means, that older Intel Chipset systems like Z68 and Z77 and your systems H67 Express chipset natively are not able to boot into NVMe-SSDs

https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02842662

[yasir2030]

Thanks for your kind confirmation.

Please can you confirm if i can upgrade the only Processor or do i need to upgrade complete Board (IPISB-CH2) and Processor.

and is there any way we can run  SSD as Bootable media on this system.

i was reading about this things like Clover are making things bootalbe but not sure if that is going to work with my system.

i am able to do installation of OS on SSD but when it restarts after copying OS files, it says your OS needs repair, and with screen options of F9 to select other OS, there it shows complete list of other OS installed and we can select any of them.

when we run the PC initially it opens up  the selection screen from where we can select any of OS we want to run.

when we select SSD OS it says needs Repair.

if we select other OS it goes to HDD OS smoothly.

Yasir

[DGroves]

installing multiple copies of windows 10 installs on a drive/ssd results in many many partitions instead of just the 3 (legacy) or 4 (GPT) formatted partitions a single OS install creates/uses

when doing a OS reinstall you need to remove all other drives and manually select the remaining boot drive and then remove existing partitions before continuing with the OS install

changing a cpu will not give you a bootable nvme capability,.. REREAD THE SECTION I POSTED ON MOTHERBOARD CHIPSETS

yes there are two software based nvme boot loaders clover and DUET/REFIND that will preload the missing nvme boot code on system startup, however both will most likely require you to find someone who is more skilled than you appear to be

here's the duet/refind link, note that since your system is NOT UEFI you  need to download the 2020 version of duet/refind

and follow the section that says :

first download duet/refind 2020, look for this line:

Current download link for DUET (EDK test Build 2020) with REFIND included

and click on the "DUET" to get the usb nvme boot maker

Booting the NVME drive from non-UEFI legacy board - DUET with optional REFIND - with USBSetup:

you will need a 1 to 16 GB usb key for duet/refind (this key must always be left in the system)

USB nvme key creation:

• 1) Connect a USB flash drive and start the USBSetup application

• 2) Select the USB flash drive letter from the drop-down combo box

    Warning.
    The following step will completely remove all information and partitions on the selected USB flash drive

• 3) Remove all information and partitions from the drive by clicking on: CLEAN

• 4) Format the selected drive by clicking on: FORMAT

• 5) Make the selected drive bootable by clicking on: BOOT

• 6) Copy the required DUET files by clicking on: DUET

• 7) Copy the optional graphical boot manager REFIND by clicking on: REFIND

• 😎 Connect the USB on the target system and set Boot from USB as the first option in your system BIOS Boot order

and a seperate 16-32 GB windows install key that has the win 10 x64 OS install files

https://www.win-raid.com/t3286f50-Guide-NVMe-boot-for-systems-with-legacy-BIOS-and-UEFI-board-DUET-R...

basically, you create a duet/refind usb key, install it on the system, then configure duet/refind  to know which usb port it's installed to so it will run on each system power on, then install windows normally and when it loops back to the select drive to install screen you remove the MS OS install key and manually reboot, allowing windows to finish the install using the nvme drive

[itsmyname]

> when we select SSD OS it says needs Repair

Boot from the non-SSD disk-drive. 

Within File Explorer, do you see a drive-letter assigned to the SSD?

If so, right-mouse-button click on the icon for the SSD,.

Choose "Tools".

Choose "Check disk for errors".

Let Windows try to "repair" the file-system.

Probably, the physical SSD is OK -- it's more-likely that the file-system needs the "repair".