NVME ssd bios settings?

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Just pretty much have to set it as the boot drive right?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Any ensure the M2 is set to PCIE / NVME / AHCI (not RAID)
Look to your Motherboard manual for this, because when you do, then 2x SATA ports will get disabled. Which ones depends I think on which M2 slot u are using. Its usually best if you have more than 1x M2 slot to use the one furthest away from the GPU

Then set Win10 USB as Boot Drive, followed by the M2-SSD.
Once OS installer reaches the first reboot process, remove the usb drive and it will boot from SSD since its next in line.

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And is formatting/creating file system necessary even though I'm just cloning the c:/ partition?

[Cathulhu]

No. You said you are cloning the drive, that includes everything, even the partitioning.

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Originally posted by Cathulhu:

No. You said you are cloning the drive, that includes everything, even the partitioning.

Ok thanks 970 evo is coming in tomorrow and my first time doing this want to be prepared

[Buck]

ACHI is a legacy API now. Don't use it unless you have to. You'd be better off reinstalling fresh in NVMe mode. it's way faster. there are other ways to copy over/retain your user settings.

you don't need to set the USB installer as the boot device in BIOS either. Use the one-time boot menu (typically "Press F8 for BBS popup", and select the installation media. on the next boot it will use the stored boot order, which I assume you will want to be your M.2 NVMe drive.

Oh yeah, other components and PCI-E slots may or may not get disabled when the M.2 slot is enabled, it depends on how the system was designed (some have the M.2 slot share lanes with a pci-e slot or another pci-e device like the onboard SATA)

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Yes make sure your M.2 SSD and/or SATA SSD are setup for the right mode in the BIOS BEFORE installing your OS.