Hello everyone.
First of all thank all the information that you share, kept me entertained a whole week.
Unfortunately without success...
I chose to follow this guide because I do not want to modify the bios.

I followed the guide and I can not get my laptop to detect my new SSD. Neither the bios nor the windows installer

My laptop is an ASUS ROG GL552VW-DM464T and my disk is a Samsung EVO 970 500gb NVME.

Can someone please guide me?

This is my laptop:

Operating System
Windows 10 Home Single Language 64-bit
CPU
Intel Core i7 6700HQ @ 2.60GHz 47 °C
Skylake 14nm Technology
RAM
12,0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1064MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. GL552VW (U3E1)
Graphics
Generic PnP Monitor (1920x1080@60Hz)
Intel HD Graphics 530 (ASUStek Computer Inc)
2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M (ASUStek Computer Inc) 49 °C
ForceWare version: 359.46
SLI Disabled
Storage
931GB Hitachi HGST HTS721010A9E630 (SATA ) 40 °C
7GB General UDisk USB Device (USB )
Optical Drives
Slimtype DVD A DA8A6SH
Audio
Conexant SmartAudio HD

PS: Sorry for my English.

Regards,

Sapphire Pure Fusion Mini E350 AMD Dual Core E350 Series Mainboard . l had this APU motherboard lying around ,so using PCI-E adapter and nvme bought from AliExpress decided to give Clover a try. I was not expecting a result but was pleasantly surprised when,on second attempt,Clover recognised windows installation and installed Windows 10. I placed driver in Uefi folder and just edited boot time delay to 3 seconds. It has speeded up system dramatically baring in mind it was always bad performing setup originally. Thanks

Hello I want to contribute with my build as I was able to run my NVME evo on my Desktop
Equipment; Asus B85m-g LGA 1150, 4th Gen core i5, 2x8gig memory sticks, my board has no m.2 slot onboard.

I wanted to load a new; Evo 960 m.2 with mKEY 250gig using a generic m.2 to PCIe 4x adaptor card.

I. Physical problems solved:
1. I bought a generic m.2 to PCIe 4x adaptor card from a China mail order company for $15 shipped.
2. Almost all of the adaptors have PCIe4X cards and I only have a PCI 1x slot to spare on my mobo.
3. Following some tutorials online, I cut the extra legs off the PCI adaptor. Leaving me with only 7 pins on the data side.


4, After much cutting and filing, I then slipped the adaptor into my mob's PCIe 1x slot. No smoke so far so everything was okay.
5. I then turned off the PC loaded the Evo m.2 on the PCI adaptor and inserted the adaptor into the mobo slot.
5. Without a hitch PC turned on, booted normally not my current windows 10 installation. Win 10 saw the m.2 and without a hitch I formatted it and used it as a data drive for a while and it worked properly. NOTE that at this point I was using my old INTEL SSD with windows 10 as my primary boot disk
6. But. like most people here, i wanted to use the evo as a bootdisk so....

WARNING: don't cut the card and even after cutting it don't stick it into your board, UNLESS you are prepared to fry your board, brick your mobo, burn something, injure yourself or suffer some form of injury or loss.

II. Software problems somewhat solved.
1. To prepare the NVEM as my primary windows 10 bootdisk, while piggybacking on the PCIE adaptor, I did the following settings on my BIOS;
a. Load defaults
b. changed boot disk to UEFI "USB CLOVER DISK"
c. changed some settings on the mobo BIOS




2. I then booted into the clover USB.
- To prepare the clover USB Bootdisk, I just formatted the USB to FAT 32 and dragged TONY54's files into it and the USB was ready. Thank you Tony54 for that. BTW I used an 8 gig USB
3. I then went into the clover menu to set it to boot into UEFI DVD. My Windows 10 disk was in the DVD drive. I planned to load windows using my Win10 DVD.
4. Who you load into the windows installation procedure go through all the normal procedures up to the point where you are asked to choose the DISK where you will install your windows.
5. In the windows install page where you are being ask to choose what disk to load windows on to, press SHIFT+F12, this will open the command prompt.
6. Use diskpart to prepare the disk for GPT, you can use the first part of this guide; https://youtu.be/kKtkizioHRs, but note that I formatted my drive using NTFS instead of FAT 32 as used in the tutorial.
6. I then loaded windows 10 in the normal fashion
7. On the first reboot intercept the Clover boot sequence. Choose the tab where windows will boot in the NVME. In your case there might be several Hard disk choices, choose the first one and work your way from there until you find the harddrive/partition where you loaded your windows.
8. Windows will restart several times, just click okay. cI chose express settings.
8. Windows loaded, I now run windows normally except for some hiccup below.

Update
1. I now boot from the clover installation on my internal SATA3 internal hard drive. I made a small 100MB partition on my hard drive and formatted it with FAT32. I then copied all the files in my Clover USB boot disk (which previously worked). I edited the config.plist on the UEFI partition on the Hard disk and changed all USB entries into HDD, now I boot through the clover boot disk on my hard drive. The USB Clover is being kept for emergency , in case the hard drive fails in the future. I can't say the HDD boot is faster that the USB boot disk, its just that I feel more comfortable that my boot disk is not dangling form the outside of my PC.
2. I also installed a PCIe 1X to 16X riser (ribbon type). What it dos is I insert the PCIe 1x on the mother board and the other end is a PCIe 16x slot. Often the extra PCIe 1x slot where we install the m.2 is beside the graphics card. Using the extension/riser I was able to move the m.2 ssd far away from the graphics card so the heat of the graphics card reach and affect the ssd.


Thanks to all

Thanks for that. Finally got my Kingston K1000 flying on my 11 year old Dell Precision T7400 PC :-)

Haven't managed to find a way to get clover to boot windows automatically, which I'd like to hear if possible, as Clover boots much faster than the DUET I'm now using. Had many problems making a DUET bootdisk, for full details see my DUET REFIND thread post here [Guide] NVMe-boot for systems with legacy BIOS and older-UEFI (DUET-REFIND) (24)

Check that post for how to not have to reinstall windows when migrating to nvme on legacy bios!

Re rar5 compression: I didn't realise there were newer versions of compression algorithms even being made (trading backwards-compatibility and for a few percent smaller files doesn't make much sense to me).

After upgrading my 6 year old winrar 4.10 to the latest version I could unpack. Uninstalling the old version surprisingly cleared up 10GB of drive space, even though I regularly use windows disk cleanup also on the tmp drive.

Zitat von phusg im Beitrag #199

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Haven't managed to find a way to get clover to boot windows automatically, which I'd like to hear if possible
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<key>DefaultLoader</key>
<string>\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi</string>
<key>DefaultVolume</key>
<string>EFI</string>
 
 

you can modify the time CLOVER waits to boot:

<key>Timeout</key>
<integer>3</integer>
 
 

I want sooo badly to make this work, but after 3 full days of cursing at it, I have so far been unsuccessful. Sigh!
I recently acquired a used HP Z600 workstation from 2011 with a legacy BIOS. But despite it's age, its a real beast , with dual 6-core Xeon 5690s and 48GB of ECC RAM! The drive however is the big bottleneck. The built in SATA ports are only SATA II 3GB/s, and although I got a SATA III PCIe controller to work, it still only allocates 1 lane limiting it to under 4 GB/s. I bought a Samsung 970 Pro Nvme M2 drive and a PCIe adapter knowing ahead of time that it would not work out of the box, that some hacking would be required. I had already found and bookmarked this page and some others.

I have gotten Clover successfully put onto a USB stick, and it boots just fine. But it does not see the NVMe drive. If I go to the EFI shell and type "drivers", the NvmExpressDxe-64.efi driver is listed (last) as being loaded. If I type fs0: I can get the Clover USB drive. but if I type fs1:, fs2: etc. it does not find a drive. The NVMe drive has several partitions, but the first one is 500MB, FAT32, Active, and should be bootable. I've run BCDBoot and BootRec on it. The next partition is 220GB, NTFS, Active, and has Windows 10 Pro on it. It should be bootable as well. In addition to Clover, I've also tried Duet. I consider myself very computer literate, although this is a bit out of my area of expertise. I have followed all the instructions to a "T" and gone thru all the steps numerous times. Could someone please provide some troubleshooting and diagnostic assistance ?

Other info: Being a dual Xeon machine, the chipset is Intel 5520. It has the most recently released BIOS v3.60 Rev.A, Apr 14, 2016. It's the C2 version with the 1/07/10 boot block. If I boot Windows 10 from the SATA SSD, I can see, read, and write to the NVMe as a secondary drive, no prob. Likewise if I boot from a Windows PE boot disk such as Gandalf's Redstone Utilities, I can (and have) clone to it. Likewise, Windows 10 Install media sees the drive, but can't (won't) allow me to install to it since it doesn't have boot support from the BIOS.

Help! Please! (Thanks in advance and good Karma to you!)

Hi, my friend had as a ASUS Evo2 board and a PAtriot Scorch M.2 Drive. The problem he is having is that Clover gets stuck at scan entries please help!

hi, I am new here.
I am excited to hear these nvme ssd can boot and run in legacy bios! So I tried but not successful. Need help
The nvme 970 evo ssd works fine in windows 10 as storage: read ~1600MB/s, write ~1400MB/s in 2nd pcie slot x16 (x8). However, the adapter is running at x4

1/ I tried the link in Tony54 #188 but after extracting from RAR to usb. That usb could not boot into CLOVER (I know how to set boot order in bios). So please check that file again.
2/ I went back and followed the guide from beginning. Download file BDU from the link #1 and followed all the steps (except edit plist). NOTE: you must have internet in order to download and extracting files! I made the usb boot into CLOVER. In CLOVER I can see my NVME ssd, the usb with windows 10 installer. But when click on the "icon hd of usb windows 10 installer", it says drive error. Hang without installation.
3/ I suspected I need to make new bootable windows 10 installation (for new uefi). Search on internet, I found it can be made by Rufu or directly from MS. I make both USBs.
4/ Boot into CLOVER, I see my icon NVME ssd on the right, icon USB legacy, icon USB efi. Click on icon USB efi, the red letter x64! and other marks appear on the screen!!!.
5/ Restart, boot into CLOVER. Click on icon USB legacy, drive error.

Help please.

My system GA-ep45-ud3p
Cpu QX9650 running at 3.8ghz
16gb ddr2 , Radeon HD 7750
Samsung 970 evo 250GB with adapter in 2nd pcie 2.0 x16 (x8)

The Tony file. When you extract
It to the USB it’s extracted into a folder. You have to manually move all the files from the folder to the root of the USB.

I tried both ways. 1st just extract and copy those files into usb, NOT working. 2nd make bootable usb and copy those files, NOT working.

@Caferhum What version of rufus do you use ?
Have you seen/tried my method (YT video from post #129) ?

@agentx007 I downloaded the newest version of Rufus and use how to https://www.windowscentral.com/how-creat...ia-uefi-support
* I saw the video, but "sorry" I felt asleep. I will try to see it again sometime (it's too long and with too much un-needed info.)

@Caferhum That's why I added timestamps in the description :D
Just check part with creating USB ISO.
Pretty sure, that's where the problem is.

If problem persists however, I recommend changing Clover version.
You can also try the one I used (can be downloaded from google drive).

@agentx007 Thank you. I will follow your instruction and try again if this weekend I don't have to work OT.
The last effort is going with Samsung 950 pro which has option ROM, but it has been outdated and very expensive. I saw a guy put Samsung 950 pro in his GA-ep45-ud3p (same as mine) and it is shown is bios normally.

Well, Clover works beyond BIOS.
It's BIOS => Clover => NVMe/PCI-e.
For normal NVMe to be working/visible under BIOS, you need EFI boot loader in BIOS.
950 Pro is exception to that rule (like you said - it has Legacy Op-Rom build-in).