Can I boot from M.2 NVMe SSD with Adapter on Asus P8Z77-V LX?

Oguru86 · Jul 16, 2017

Hi

I've been looking around trying to find some answers but i only seem to keep coming up with more questions as i look.

I've got an ASUS P8Z77-V LX Sandybridge motherboard with 1 x PCIe 3.0 x16 and 1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 slot. I'm thinking about getting Samsung PM961 256GB M.2 PCIe NVMe to use a a boot drive (by cloning my current SSD drive to it). I don't think I have windows installed as UEFI from what I can see. Would this be a possibility or would it require me to format and reinstall windows?

Thanks

Barty1884 · Jul 17, 2017

I highly doubt you can boot from an M.2 PCIe drive on the Z77 chipset..... I believe that only started to becoming a 'thing' around Z97.

*EDIT* Yeah, native support just is not there. You could use it as storage, but not as a boot drive......natively at least.

I can't confirm whether this works for sure, but supposedly there's a tool that'll insert the functionality via a mod the the latest BIOS.
At your own risk, of course: http://www.overclock.net/t/1571271/tutorial-how-to-add-nvme-support-on-any-ami-uefi-bios-with-an-intel-chipset

As for the clone vs clean install, I would always recommend a clean install.

Oguru86 · Jul 18, 2017

If i did the BIOS mod, wouldn't i still need to have a UEFI install of windows?

Barty1884 · Jul 18, 2017

Unless you want to get further and further into modding, yes, it would need to be UEFI.

Oguru86 · Jul 19, 2017

Ok, I think i will leave it until i build a new pc at some point, it's not worth the hassle at the moment for a bit of extra speed. Thanks for your help!

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