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July 19th, 2017 04:00
Precision T5810 & Samsung 960 Pro SSD
So, I decided to replace the SATA III SSD that came with the system with a 960 Pro PCI-E SSD.
I went through all the tricks discussed in the forums to get around the Recovery DVDs inability to install onto a PCI-E SSD, used the MCE boot creator option, and successfully installed Windows 10 onto the drive.
Note that throughout this process, I was attempting to remove the included SATA III SSD from the system, but every time i removed it I received a boot failure stating no boot device was detected. I assumed once I had completely installed Windows 10 on the drive this would not be the case.
So, once the Windows 10 installation completed, i shut down the system and when I reboot it I once again received the boot failure error.
This error goes away if I leave the SATA III SSD in, and Windows 10 Boot Manager will detect the PCI-E SSD allowing me to select it as my boot disk. But if I remove the SATA III SSD, the system will not boot at all.
This is somewhat confusing, and I was hoping to get some input into what could be the issue.
ejn63
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July 19th, 2017 08:00
You need to remove the original drive before you install Windows on the NVMe drive.
Typifire
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July 19th, 2017 09:00
Is that really it? The reason I left it in in the first place was because I was getting boot device errors when removing it pre-install.
I'll try again, now that i have the Windows 10 MCE USB boot drive in addition to the Recovery DVD.
I hope it's that simple.
Do you know if SATA mode can be set to AHCI and not RAID? I'm reading conflicting reports on this point.