Samsung 960 EVO M.2 NVMe SSD Not showing up in BIOS under BOOT OPTIONS

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jasonvenkaya

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Hey all,

I just picked up a Samsung 960 EVO Series - 1TB PCIe NVMe - M.2 Internal SSD (MZ-V6E1T0BW).

My laptop is a HP Omen 17-AN020CA running Windows 10 that I purchased Dec 2017.

I can see the new SSD under disk management, and it also shows up in the device manager.

I have used both the Samsung Data Migration tool AND EaseUS (each on separate occasions) to clone my current Windows Installation on my HDD to the SSD.

Although it seems like everything goes off without an issue, my SSD has never showed up under BOOT OPTIONS in the BIOS. I can't figure out where I'm going wrong!

The BIOS has been updated to the most current version, but its features are VERY slim...I've also updated the Samsung NVMe SSD Driver to the most recent version.

I've also tried both MBR and GPT and neither allows the blank initialized SSD (or cloned Windows 10 installation) from showing up in my BIOS BOOT OPTIONS.

I'm running out of ideas here, if someone has had a similar experience, or has any advice, I would love to hear it!

Thanks,

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mdd1963

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disable UEFI Protected mode.....

If you are sure the clone occurred correctly, try also temporarily disconnecting the original boot drive....

I think I had similar problems a year ago, and actually had to do a basic create partition/NTFS quick format in a Linux environment before my 960 ever showed up in the Windows installer menu as a viable option.

Make sure in the clone, you select the entire disk (with all partitions) to be copied over, not just the WIndows install (aka, 'system')
 
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jasonvenkaya

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Thanks for the answer. I'll try disconnecting the original boot drive and disable UEFI protected mode and see where I get. My thoughts are since the SSD isn't showing up in the BIOS (and never has) but is showing up under disk management and device manager, that it's a BIOS issue, and not a hardware issue...But that's just a guess.

Any idea about loading a more robust BIOS that would allow me more options and functionality, or would that be too risky?

If it would at least show up in the BOOT OPTIONS it would be a hell of a lot easier to troubleshoot, but like I said, the only indication that the drive is working is that I can access it freely in Windows as if it was just any other drive. I can copy and paste to it and watch videos and play music from it.

Thanks again,

Any and all suggestions are appreciated!
 
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jasonvenkaya

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Hey! Yes I did. I made sure my HDD was correctly cloned to my SSD with Windows, and then I opened up the case and 'unplugged' my HDD so that it was no longer connected to the motherboard.

The SSD was the only bootable device, and the system detected it immediately and booted from it when I restarted the system. It showed up in the BIOS boot order and everything.

After confirming that I was in fact booting from the SSD now (several boot ups and a couple 'real world' tests of the Windows clone not being buggy), I opened up the case again and reconnected the HDD.

Now, it's the HDD that doesn't show up as a bootable drive in the BIOS Boot Options, but that's totally fine, because it does appear as a storage drive in My Computer which is its main purpose.

After a couple days of further testing and making sure all my files from the original HDD were backed up to an external HDD, I wiped the HDD so that it was completely fresh and then reconfigured the drive/partitions etc.

The M.2 SSD NVME style drive is insanely fast. I boot up Windows 10 in less than 5-7 seconds (from 'off' to logged in and viewing my desktop).

Hope this helps!

J
 
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