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  1. Posts : 127
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    Boot Loader


    I have a HP Z220 workstation (got it off of Amazon), and I'm so interested in booting off of a M.2 SSD. I found a paper on this called Clover-EFI bootloader method, and it sounds like it works. Here's my problem, I do know a little bit about programming, but not familiar with bootloaders. Basically, what is does it adds in the stuff needed to put from an M.2 before windows takes over. I need a basic course in bootloaders and which one is very user friendly.
    Thanks Dan
    P.S. The article can be found at (you will have to type in google) guide NVMe boot without modding your UEFI BIOS bootloader method
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  2. Posts : 14,046
    Windows 11 Pro X64 22H2 22621.1848
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    Wouldn't it be simpler and nearly as fast to use a normal SSD? What is M.2 going to buy you other than aggravation?
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  3. Posts : 1,750
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    timlab55 said:
    I have a HP Z220 workstation (got it off of Amazon), and I'm so interested in booting off of a M.2 SSD. I found a paper on this called Clover-EFI bootloader method, and it sounds like it works. Here's my problem, I do know a little bit about programming, but not familiar with bootloaders. Basically, what is does it adds in the stuff needed to put from an M.2 before windows takes over. I need a basic course in bootloaders and which one is very user friendly.
    Thanks Dan
    P.S. The article can be found at (you will have to type in google) guide NVMe boot without modding your UEFI BIOS bootloader method
    I found the SourceForge home page for Clover-EFI and it sure seems like it's for very hardcore hacker types. If you are not now familiar with bootloaders, I'm going to guess based on some of the comments and posts I read, that you will spend many, many hours trying to make this work. And in the end, you may not succeed.

    I don't have an M.2 drive, only an old-fashioned SATA 3 SSD (because my current rig doesn't support NVMe.) When I got this SSD, all I had to do was use Samsung's transfer utility to migrate the C: drive (with Windows) from my old HDD to the new SSD. I'm sure that many different M.2 SSDs come with a similar utility. That may be all you need,
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  4. Posts : 5,299
    Windows 11 Pro 64-bit
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    The partition loader (or Boot Loader) examines the partition table for a partition marked as active.
    The partition loader then searches the very first sector of that partition for a Volume Boot Record.
    The Volume Boot Record is also 512 bytes and contains a table that describes the characteristics of the partition and also the jump code that locates the first of the operating system files.



    The active partition's volume boot record is checked for a valid boot signature and if found the boot sector code is executed as a program.
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  6. Posts : 127
    Windows 10
    Thread Starter
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    Forum - [Guide] NVMe-boot without modding your UEFI/BIOS (Clover-EFI bootloader method) I got the paper on this. I got lost after getting a boot loader of choice. Where do I get one, and how does it work.
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    Where does it say "bootloader of choice" ?
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  8. Posts : 14,046
    Windows 11 Pro X64 22H2 22621.1848
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    @timlab55, It would help if you referenced the data in the article that you are having problems with and posted that here.
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  9. DFM
    Posts : 35
    Windows 10 Pro 21H2
       #9

    I have a legacy only BIOS and therefore MBR disk. I would like to use the UEFI emulation of Clover bootloader. All the tutorials I see are for something else.
    Would Clover go in the existing boot partition or the one created after converting to GPT disk?
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  10. Posts : 6,251
    Windows 11 Pro - Windows 7 HP - Lubuntu
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    I may be wrong but I don't think there is a workaround to boot a EFI-GPT drive without an UEFI BIOS.
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