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December 7th, 2017 15:00

How can I use my NVME SSD on my R7 as my main boot drive?

Bought a 1TB samsung 960 pro and install in my motherboard, however how can I make this my main boot drive, or my main driver? Please help!

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December 11th, 2017 09:00

Hi ‌,

Where you able to boot from the drive?

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December 11th, 2017 11:00

I think so? But all I did was make the Nvme online and transfer files

there. Though, I want it to make it my main boot drive.

-Avian777

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December 11th, 2017 22:00



How can I make my Disk F: as a boot drive? Ive been researching but so far there's go guide for the bios of Alienware boot set up, to change the boot drive.

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December 12th, 2017 14:00

You'll need to enter the Bios (F2) and change the boot priority to make the system boot from the new drive, but to make it the main drive (with the OS), you'll need to reinstall the OS on the new drive or clone the original drive into the new one. 

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January 3rd, 2018 16:00

I bought the Aurora R7 and performed an NVMe upgrade from the 1tb HDD using the following method.  It is by no means the only, correct way-it just worked for me after exhausting the Dell Tech Spprt folks.

 

I performed the following:
**********************Make sure you back up everything that is important to you before upgrading*********
1] installed the 960 PRO NVMe but it did not show up.
2] Powered down and unplugged the HDD.
3]  Booted back into BIOS and changed the following settings:
-EUFI to Legacy
-RAID to AHCI (but it shows up either way after turning EUFI off)
4] Put a Win 10 ISO on a USB and booted to that
5]  Clean installed WIndows (I lost my Dell recovery partition that that is OK with me).
Still need to figure out if ACHI is the correct setting vs. RAID.  I am still using AHCI mode with no issues. 
6] Install all the drivers/boots up and runs fine.  I will also install the 960 PRO driver and Magician later this afternoon. Done and performs crazy fast.
**********************Make sure you back up everything that is important to you before upgrading*******
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