Dual Drive Configuration Boot NVMe

[Chatta]

Using Dual Drive Configuration with SATA and NVMe.    Both drives recognized in BIOS and Windows.  Used EaseUS to make copy from SATA to NVMe.  NVMe is not listed under boot drive options.

Want to boot from NVMe.

Suggestions.

[Paul_Tikkanen · Accepted solution]

The only suggestion I can offer would be to temporarily disconnect the 2.5" drive so the Windows boot manager switches to boot from the NVMe SSD.

Then you can reconnect the hard drive.

You may have to remove Windows from the 2.5" drive because notebooks that come with dual drive configurations from HP have no operating system on the 2.5" drive which is to be used for storage only in those configurations.

[Chatta]

Your suggestion worked.  After connecting the NVMe drive only and going to the bios to set the drive as the boot drive, it booted from the NVMe.  I had to connect the SATA drive via USB adaptor and remove the OS partitions before I could internally reinstall it into the laptop.

I wish the BIOS could have let me do without the game of remove and install.

Success.  Thanks.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.