I was so happy to find this forum because I have a few systems with older UEFI BIOS's that do not have NVME support and it would be nice to upgrade to NVME PCIE SSD. I prepared the latest Clover USB, making sure NvmExpressDxe.efi is in \EFI\Clover\drivers\UEFI directory, but unfortunately I am unable to install Windows 10 to the NVME on these systems:
First off, when running Windows 10 from a regular SATA drive, the NVME Pcie drive is recognised on the motherboard, and I have formatted it. When I run the Clover drivers command, NvmExpressDxe.efi is listed at the end, so I assume Clover has loaded it.
Second, when booting from Clover, the formatted NVME drive is not shown, not even by pressing F3.
Third, when I try to boot a Windows 10 install USB (prepared using Rufus) through Clover, I get a black screen with a flashing cursor at the top and nothing happens.
After spending so many hours trying many different things, I am ready to give up.

Both systems have Gigabyte motherboards:
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 (Intel CPU)
Gigabyte 97A-D3P (AMD CPU)
Would anyone have any further suggestions?

@techami

Zitat von techami im Beitrag #420

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I saw in Clover option: load option roms. Can there add any bios roms like raid or ahci ?

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@krasnit

Zitat von krasnit im Beitrag #421

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I was so happy to find this forum because I have a few systems with older UEFI BIOS's that do not have NVME support and it would be nice to upgrade to NVME PCIE SSD. I prepared the latest Clover USB, making sure NvmExpressDxe.efi is in \EFI\Clover\drivers\UEFI directory, but unfortunately I am unable to install Windows 10 to the NVME on these systems:
First off, when running Windows 10 from a regular SATA drive, the NVME Pcie drive is recognised on the motherboard, and I have formatted it. When I run the Clover drivers command, NvmExpressDxe.efi is listed at the end, so I assume Clover has loaded it.
Second, when booting from Clover, the formatted NVME drive is not shown, not even by pressing F3.
Third, when I try to boot a Windows 10 install USB (prepared using Rufus) through Clover, I get a black screen with a flashing cursor at the top and nothing happens.
After spending so many hours trying many different things, I am ready to give up.

Both systems have Gigabyte motherboards:
Gigabyte Z87-HD3 (Intel CPU)
Gigabyte 97A-D3P (AMD CPU)
Would anyone have any further suggestions?

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Thanks Sibliss. I remember there was a poster further up who had the same problems I have and he also had a Gigabyte motherboard. But he was able to solve his problem by exiting Clover which brought him to DUET boot manager and from there he was able to install Win 10. In my case on the AMD Gigabyte motherboard, I just got a black screen when I exited Clover.

Here is the situation now. I managed to free up another old UEFI computer, this one with a ASUS M5a97 motherboard. I finally am getting somewhere. However, I cannot install Windows 10 Enterprise onto the NVME PCie through Clover. It gives me the message "Windows cannot be installed.........The hardware may not support booting to this disk... Assure disk's controller is enabled in BIOS." I get this same message if I try to install Win 10 Enterprise directly to NVME without Clover. WIN 10 Enterprise has too many security features so I think it cannot be installed through Clover. I borrowed A WIN 10 Pro .iso and using Rufus made a USB, and it installed onto the NVME through Clover. I managed to install it and it now runs fine through Clover boot. I will see if it is detected by Clover on the Gigabyte motherboards later.

However, I want to install Win 10 Enterprise. I do not think you can use Windows media creation tool with Windows 10 Enterprise.

So here is my conclusion so far:
Forget about Win 10 Enterprise. It will not install through Clover or probably even through DUET.
Gigabyte old-UEFI motherboards are problematic, and the ones I have will not accommodate Clover.

When I free up a computer with a new UEFI motherboard that supports Nvme PCie on the weekend, I will install Win 10 Enterprise on this SSD directly and then put it into one of these old-UEFI machines to see what happens when booting through Clover.

@krasnit

Zitat von krasnit im Beitrag #424

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Thanks Sibliss. I remember there was a poster further up who had the same problems I have and he also had a Gigabyte motherboard. But he was able to solve his problem by exiting Clover which brought him to DUET boot manager and from there he was able to install Win 10. In my case on the AMD Gigabyte motherboard, I just got a black screen when I exited Clover.

Here is the situation now. I managed to free up another old UEFI computer, this one with a ASUS M5a97 motherboard. I finally am getting somewhere. However, I cannot install Windows 10 Enterprise onto the NVME PCie through Clover. It gives me the message "Windows cannot be installed.........The hardware may not support booting to this disk... Assure disk's controller is enabled in BIOS." I get this same message if I try to install Win 10 Enterprise directly to NVME without Clover. WIN 10 Enterprise has too many security features so I think it cannot be installed through Clover. I borrowed A WIN 10 Pro .iso and using Rufus made a USB, and it installed onto the NVME through Clover. I managed to install it and it now runs fine through Clover boot. I will see if it is detected by Clover on the Gigabyte motherboards later.

However, I want to install Win 10 Enterprise. I do not think you can use Windows media creation tool with Windows 10 Enterprise.

So here is my conclusion so far:
Forget about Win 10 Enterprise. It will not install through Clover or probably even through DUET.
Gigabyte old-UEFI motherboards are problematic, and the ones I have will not accommodate Clover.

When I free up a computer with a new UEFI motherboard that supports Nvme PCie on the weekend, I will install Win 10 Enterprise on this SSD directly and then put it into one of these old-UEFI machines to see what happens when booting through Clover.

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I sometimes do programming for an organisation that uses Win 10 Enterprise on its machines so I want to make sure there are no OS compatibilty issues. But my curiosity with Clover and NVME is that organisations need to upgrade and instead of upgrading the whole computer they could use SSDs, and was wondering about the possibilities of NVME PCIe drives on older machines.

I put the NVME drive with Win 10 Pro I created on the Asus AMD motherboard into the Gigabyte AMD motherboard and Clover now detects it, and I am able to boot it successfully. Haven't tried the Gigabyte Intel motherboard, but I suspect there could be CPU issues. Theoretically, then, one can clone WIN 10 hard drives on machines whose BIOS supports NVME PCIe BOOT drives and then transfer the bootable NVME to machines that do not and then boot using Clover. I will try all this with Win 10 Enterprise on the weekend.

Update: I managed to install Win 10 Enterprise on the PCIe NVME using the Asus motherboard and it works fine. Since I already had Win 10 Pro installed on it, it was a matter of simply upgrading it to Enterprise. It wanted quite a few reboots though, so I had to keep an eye on it. I will eventually set up a data hard drive with a little partition that has Clover on it to start the boot process.

@krasnit

Zitat von krasnit im Beitrag #426

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I sometimes do programming for an organisation that uses Win 10 Enterprise on its machines so I want to make sure there are no OS compatibilty issues. But my curiosity with Clover and NVME is that organisations need to upgrade and instead of upgrading the whole computer they could use SSDs, and was wondering about the possibilities of NVME PCIe drives on older machines.

I put the NVME drive with Win 10 Pro I created on the Asus AMD motherboard into the Gigabyte AMD motherboard and Clover now detects it, and I am able to boot it successfully. Haven't tried the Gigabyte Intel motherboard, but I suspect there could be CPU issues. Theoretically, then, one can clone WIN 10 hard drives on machines whose BIOS supports NVME PCIe BOOT drives and then transfer the bootable NVME to machines that do not and then boot using Clover. I will try all this with Win 10 Enterprise on the weekend.

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Zitat von krasnit im Beitrag #427

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Update: I managed to install Win 10 Enterprise on the PCIe NVME using the Asus motherboard and it works fine. Since I already had Win 10 Pro installed on it, it was a matter of simply upgrading it to Enterprise. It wanted quite a few reboots though, so I had to keep an eye on it. I will eventually set up a data hard drive with a little partition that has Clover on it to start the boot process.

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Hello,

I would like to install the Windows 7 Home Premium on new SSD PCie Plextor M9Pe(Y) 512GB with Asus M4A87TD EVO - old motherboard without uefi, only bios. No nvme boot support.
I made a windows install disk for usb from an iso file with rufus program. I tried the MDR and GPT versions.
I added the nvme driver with the Windows USB Installation Tool.
With regular installation from usb windows began to see the disk, I could create partitions, format it. But I could not install the system because the nmve disk could not be a boot disk.
I created the boot usb Clover by BDU.
Motherboard bios do not display both flash drives in boot settings. There is always only one to choose from, so either the usual windows installation starts or a clover appears with a disk to choose from, where after selecting the disk a disk read error occurs.
I will be grateful for your help.

@lukaszwojcik You have to boot Clover from bootx64.efi or bootmgfw.efi file (assuming Clover can't or don't want to boot from your pendrive).
Also, to boot Windows 7 you have to format NVMe drive to GPT. MBR to GPT conversion might be needed if you tested the drive earlier in MBR.

Zitat von agentx007 im Beitrag #430

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@lukaszwojcik You have to boot Clover from bootx64.efi or bootmgfw.efi file (assuming Clover can't or don't want to boot from your pendrive).
Also, to boot Windows 7 you have to format NVMe drive to GPT. MBR to GPT conversion might be needed if you tested the drive earlier in MBR.

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@lukaszwojcik

Zitat von lukaszwojcik im Beitrag #431

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Zitat von agentx007 im Beitrag #430

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@lukaszwojcik You have to boot Clover from bootx64.efi or bootmgfw.efi file (assuming Clover can't or don't want to boot from your pendrive).
Also, to boot Windows 7 you have to format NVMe drive to GPT. MBR to GPT conversion might be needed if you tested the drive earlier in MBR.

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Clover boots from pendrive without a problem. However, then you cannot see the second windows flash drive in bios. I don't know how to run the system installation by clover then?
How to format a nmve disk in GPT? Through the clover command line?

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Zitat von sibliss im Beitrag #432

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5. i want to add that you should have used this tool instead of rufus https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download...s.aspx?id=56485 as rufus does not play nice with windows iso's

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Has anyone ever managed to install Clover boot manager on a GPT hard drive? For those that have a UEFI BIOS which does not support NVME it would be useful if the Clover boot is on a hard drive larger than 2tb. That way, you can use the remaining portion of the Clover drive as a large data drive while using a NVME PCIE for the system and main Windows OS drive.

You boot Clover to get (among other things), GPT boot support on non-EFI boards.
Getting Clover to boot from GPT is counter intuitive for Legacy boards.

I prefer to put it on CompactFlash card with IDE adapter (those older boards always have IDE ports).