Boot drive upgrade went smooth...almost


  1. maarkr
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    Boot drive upgrade went smooth...almost


    Cloned my Gigabyte Z390UD Samsung 500Gb SSD to a new Samsung SSD 980 1Tb NVMe M.2 in the mobo M.2 slot. Used the Samsung software that they offered and done in 30 mins. It expanded the C drive and picked up the drive as the boot drive but I had to select it as the boot drive on reboot. Drive Mgr showed the drive OK as I had disconnected my old 500Gb drive.
    Now for reboots, I have to go into boot drives and select it. The drive does not show up in available boot drives in the BIOS. Everything else seems fine. I researched in this and other forums but they mostly talk abt mobos not supporting the drive and other stuff not related to my issue. If I dig into the BIOS, I can select NVMe drives and it shows it, but it is not in the boot menu.
    What is there to make my BIOS load it in the boot menu?

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  3. bro67
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    Do you still have the other SSD plugged in? You cannot share SATA1 with the m.2. https://download.gigabyte.com/FileLi...90-ud_v2_e.pdf
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  4. maarkr
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    nope...
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  6. bro67
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    Go in and recheck your bios settings.
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  7. maarkr
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    today it showed up fine... idk why it wasn't there yesterday?
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