Samsung 970 EVO 500GB - NVMe PCIe M.2 not recognized in bios, in windows works

[Juliopfe]

Hi!

I just installed a Samsung 970 EVO 500GB - NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 SSD (MZ-V7E500BW) on my OMEN 15DC0006 and I want to use is as the main disk with the OS.

It's recognized as another drive in windows I was able to perform a disk clone with the Samsung software but the bios is not recognizing it so I can't use is as main disk... I was thinking to reinstall windows with a clean install but I'm not sure if it will work... any help with this issue? 

thank you!

[Huffer]

If you also have a hard drive in try removing it and see if the system will not boot to the NVME M.2. If you can see it as a drive in Windows the system is compatible which is also what the Manual says. No reason you cannot use that M.2 as the bootdisk. 

[Juliopfe]

Hello Huffer, Thank you for your answer. It worked, but as soon as I connect the HDD windows start from there.

Now I assume that if I'm able to format the C drive It will boot from the SSD, what do you think?

[Huffer]

Yes that's right. However, we should be able to adjust the boot order in the BIOS....what shows up in boot options if you have just the NVME M.2 in place?

[Juliopfe]

The same as before:

With legacy the same

[Huffer]

Did you do the clone with secure boot enabled or disabled?

[Juliopfe]

Enabled

[Huffer · Accepted solution]

So when you cloned it you copied the contents of the OS boot manager onto the M.2 and that is what it looks to for booting. 

You can simply render the hard drive non-bootable by removing the system partition(s) and windows directory from the drive and just save the data. If you don't need that just format the hard drive and use it for storage. If you cloned you obviously have everything saved to the M.2 anyway, right?

[Juliopfe]

Finally I made a clean install of windows on the SSD and then I had to full format the HDD deleting all the partitions... without that it was always asking from where to boot windows. 

So now is finally working. Thanks!