I installed windows 10 on the Nvme 960 evo as per your instruction, on UEFI/legacy bios of z620 system. is it the fact that I need to leave usb drive in all the time in order to boot from clover? I failed to mod the bios as it does not let me.
thanks

Post #150:
It was my mistake, I forgot point 3a in the HowTo.....

I have tried to install on 4 different usb and they all fail? Any ideas? I get an error message saying i cant connect to server http something and then "drivers not installed".

More info please. When do the errors occur. Which step?

Zitat von bbiigg im Beitrag #153

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I have tried to install on 4 different usb and they all fail? Any ideas? I get an error message saying i cant connect to server http something and then "drivers not installed".

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it just wasnt connecting to the server for files to download. Eventually, it downloaded. When i booted up and ran it , it worked and i had my system running fine. The next morning it had crashed and no longer boots at all. Everything seems a bit wonky now. when i try to do a fresh install it wont let me install windows from thumb drive even though the option is available.

I am planning to use this method. And: I am planning for a dual boot system with Win10Pro and a Hackintosh w/ Sierra on ONE drive with two partitions. I know, how to install the OSs, but not, how to create a boot loader afterwards. Is there a way to add some sort of boot loader to the Clover USB-stick, where I can choose, from which partition the computer will be booting? Or am I completely mistaken in my assumption, how a boot loader works?

Just got my HP Z800 booting for a Kingston KC1000 NVMe drive and want to say thanks to all that worked on this. I spent a very frustrating few hours trying other methods and got no where.But now i have amy 9 year old workstation with 1,650 Mbps read and 1,540 Mbps writes on the boot drive, a massive improvement over the 250 Mbps via the SATA controller. Next challenge is to get the UEFI splash screen to auto select the NVME drive and not need a click with the mouse. If anonye with a Z800 wants to boot from NVME then follow this guide ignore any others you see as you will waste a lot of time.

Hi Charlie,

look at post #90; in addition you can set the delay too before it starts.

Thiersee

I am waiting till my mini USB arrives and i will follow the suggestion from #90. I am also going to disable the 2 on board HP RAIDs that start in Legacy BIOS and have a play with cutting out all of the Hackintosh drivers etc as suggested in another post. But I want to leave my working USB stick as is just in case somwething goes wrong.

I really like the security aspect of this Clover UEFI set up. I will leave my original SATA SSD in place but set it as OFFLINE in Disk Management within the UEFI Boot disk. Then in my SATA SSD Boot Windows OS set the NVMe as OFFLINE in Disk Management there. That way if I remove the micro USB anyone getting into my workstation is highly unlikely to get my files. When they will boot in to the dumy OS based on the old SATA SSD they not be able to see the NVMe from Windows. Obviously if they look in Disk Management and spot it as offline they can bring it online. But i dont think many people would do that. All I need to look at now is if BITLOCKER works and what the performance hit will be. It will be interesting to see if a disk encrypted by BITLOCKER from the UEFI Boot OS can be viewed in the Legacy SATA based OS that has not got BITLOCKER set up. My hope is that it will not be possible to decrypt it.

Regards

Charlie

If you are just trying to boot to nvme (not mac os)
you are much better off using rEFInd

When i use clover there are quirks like cpu-z isnt able to read the spd from the ram
and such even though my config for Clover is almost empty

so its messing with what it doesnt need to be messing with for a windows boot
no such problems with rEFInd

here's my backups just extract one of them to a fat32 partition
one has no gui the other has text gui (see config file for other stuff)
its all ready to go with the nvme driver included

https://mega.nz/#F!1iB32ATT!JefLxkbk4rBapBFOwHDBTQ

Zitat von Shonk im Beitrag #161

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If you are just trying to boot to nvme (not mac os)
you are much better off using rEFInd

here's my backups just extract one of them to a fat32 partition
one has no gui the other has text gui (see config file for other stuff)
its all ready to go with the nvme driver included

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Try the gui one first

Just format a usb stick fat 32 and unrar the contents of the gui file
the no gui one is setup to pre boot to last used device
which you havnt selected, gui one is on a 10 second countdown

mine is setup slightly different but will work just the same from a usb stick

I have a 512gb Crucial M550 on Sata 0
i just removed all patitions
made a 36mb fat 32 partition with rEFInd on
then the rest of the M550 is a NTFS partition with no data on it atm (Drive D in windows)

oh you can also sit there bashing cursor down on the keyboard on the nogui one
which will bring up the gui so you can select your boot device

Still not working on the GUI one. I have screen shot the file sturcture. Like i say i can see how it could ever work as there are no boot or configfiles in the root directory. All there is in the root is the entry for the EFI directory. Any suggestions here would be gratefully received.

Charlie

im uploading a video gime 5

edit..
here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoLK_FRC5LU