OK, so my first NVME was a cheap Kingston 2 TB drive. Not very good. So I just bought a new WD Black SN850X. tried doing a fresh install of windows. didn’t work. said ‘fuck it’ and cloned my Kingston to the WD.
Now when I try booting off of the WD my BIOS detects it, but when i try to select it to boot from it doesn’t show up. only my old Kingston shows up.
Motherboard is a Gigabyte Z790 UD AC.
tried switching drive letters. didn’t work.
At wits end. Any suggestions?
Edit: sort of figured it out.
Pro tip, make sure your USB drive is formatted to the same file system as your nvme is.
First attempt was with a fat32 usb. This is what caused the problem.
Used a different USB formatted to ntsf. Seemes to be working now. Hopefully i will be anle to install windows now
Nah, your problem was probably not with your file system, you probably created the windows boot USB with a legacy MBR partition table, instead of a GPT one.
either way windows is installed on the new drive now.