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Motherboard support for bootable M.2 NVME SSD
I have a Supermicro C7Q67 motherboard with 2 HDDs and 24GB Ram. I decided to find some hardware component(s) to improve the overall performance of this system. After some looking, I decided on a Vantec M.2 NVME PCIe X4 adapter and a 500GB M.2 NVME SSD to provide the performance boost. The M.2 SSD simply plugs into the adapter, which plugs into the X4 PCIe slot on the motherboard. I booted the system with the new hardware installed and then used Macrium to clone my Windows 10 (ver 2004) system onto the NVME SSD. The cloning completed successfully. After checking the SSD, I decided that it was time to check out how quickly the system would boot. I decided to disconnect the two HDDs before attempting the boot from the SSD. I pressed the power-on button and unfortunately the result was a blinking cursor - no Windows 10. So, I rebooted the PC and entered the Aptio Bios utility. I tabbed over to the 'Boot' tab and checked the Boot Options priority section and found no evidence that the new hardware was recognized. I checked the Hard Drives list - it contained a blank list. I know that the motherboard is fairly old (11 years), but because I was able to access the SSD to perform the cloning of Windows 10 onto the SSD previously, I thought that booting from the SSD would happen. Before the cloning, I did check the Device Manager and saw that a Standard NVM Controller was present under Storage Controllers and Windows Disk Management saw it as disk. So, under this computer platform, will I be able to use this SSD as a boot device ?
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