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XPS 8920, boot from M.2 NVMe?
Please forgive me, as I know its been asked before. However I have yet to see a clearly valid defined solution.
I want to use my Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe, which I hope to clone (Macrium Reflect) as my boot drive.
I was able to clone but I can't get the system to boot from the M.2 alone.
Could some please assist me with a walk through or directions in what I need to do please?
546insp
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September 28th, 2018 21:00
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On mine I couldn't get the same drive to even show up anywhere but I was awaiting the screw so I could cinch it down. It seems to me that since it was plugged in to the M.2 slot at 30* it should have worked but some say no and nobody has explained why yet. I sent the 970 back to Amazon and bought a 2.5'' SATA SSD.
bahamaboy99
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September 29th, 2018 06:00
UPDATE: So after pulling an all righter, I removed the original drive, installed the evo 970 and installed clean version of windows. It booted and seems to be working well. Before doing so I went into the Bios , turned on legacy mode and turned off raid. Gonna try install the additional drives for storage and see what happens
bahamaboy99
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September 29th, 2018 08:00
I usually like to leave it in UEFI. AHCI-Mode.
I tried to go back to UEFI in the bios , but I got the same not boot black screen again.
Eventually, re-enable SecureBoot toward end as last steps.
I will see what happens.
No Intel-RST installed ... ever.
I was sure not to do so
Tesla1856
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September 29th, 2018 08:00
I usually like to leave it in UEFI. AHCI-Mode.
Eventually, re-enable SecureBoot toward end as last steps.
No Intel-RST installed ... ever.
https://www.dell.com/community/Alienware-Desktops/M-2-NVMe-bootable-options/m-p/6073081/highlight/true#M3401
newbiexps8920
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October 5th, 2018 12:00
did you get yours to work? im thinking of purchasing a (Samsung ssd 970 pro nvme m.2 512 GB) but i want to use it as a boot source any tips you can give me would be very helpful i have a dell xps 8920
bahamaboy99
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October 5th, 2018 17:00
yea. its booting from the 970 but i am still in legacy mode.
Dr_DLH
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January 11th, 2020 06:00
I was able to build mine and working with a m.2 NVME 512gb and 2x 512gb ssd drives in raid stripe mode.
This is how I did it. - With Acronis
installed all drives
bios in UEFI not secure boot.
installed windows using OEM USB recovery drive. It does not see the m.2 drive during build.
Once I got windows installed and all my programs I placed a CD of Acronis 2020 boot cd in cd drive and shut the PC down.
i booted up in bios, changed to legacy.
I saved and exited the bios.
i then pressed F12 to show boot menu when the dell logo appeared.
selected the cd drive with Acronis under the UEFI BOOT menu. When Acronis menu came up I selected 1. For Acronis 64bit boot.
when Acronis came up I used the tools and utilities selection and picked Clone drive. I then selected manual settings so I can pick the drive I want to clone to.
after it was all completed I removed the cd and shut down the PC.
i then unplugged the power from the two striped ssd drives.
i powered on the PC and pressed F2 at dell logo to go into bios. I set the legacy back to UEFI. Saved and exited.
the PC booted to the m.2 drive.
i shutdown the PC once more. Plugged back in the 2 ssd drives. Booted PC and then formatted my drive D (2 SSD DRIVES STRIPPED). As I use my striped drives for data building and wanted it to be fast.
Hope this helps everyone else.
williamj82162
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August 28th, 2020 20:00
Similar thing for me. I cloned the drive via Macrium within Windows, the BIOS was set to RAID mode even though there was only one disk, and I was oblivious to this fact. When I switched to the NVMe Windows gave me the boot errors and didn't proceed no matter what I did.
My solution:
There are many tutorials online as to how to play with the bcdedit store, it was pretty simple and my old OS came back, cloned, as I had originally intended. All my files were intact and my system now boots within 10s.