Use recovery to install on new NVMe drive instead of HDD.

[barom]

Hi all, I recently installed a 1TB NVMe in addition to the regular 2.5 1TB HDD that my laptop came with. I've been trying to use HP Recovery Manager to install on my new NVMe hard drive but unfortunately I don't see the option. It never gives me the option to pick which hard drive to install it on. I'm curious if anyone is aware of any solution?

[CherylG]

1-Are you booting from Recovery Media made with HP Recovery Manager?

2-You may have to remove the original hdd before installing Windows using Recovery Media.

3-You can also make a bootable Windows 10 usb flash drive to boot from using the free Tool at Microsoft site.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10

[barom]

1. Yes, I've tried both the hdd partition as well as a Recovery USB I made with HP Recovery Manager, which btw I'd like to say it's really weird I'm only allowed to create it once, it seems like such a weird restriction for something I should have bountiful access to that shouldn't hurt anyone. 

2. I'd like to avoid this but will do it as a last resort if I can't get anything else to work.

3. I will try this.

[barom · Accepted solution]

I was able to do it by booting Ubuntu via USB and deleting all the partitions (except Recovery) on the HDD. The next time I ran recovery, it seem to automatically pick the NVMe SSD. I get the feeling that  just deleting the UEFI part would do it but would not be able to test it at this point. Anyway, thanks for the help.