Hi all,
I have a pretty old config M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 + Phenom II X6 which works alright for me. I also have 3 SATA HDDs (Seagate 10 TB + Seagate 2 TB + Samsung 750 GB) and external USB 3.0 Toshiba 3 TB. Since I have lots of SATA drives already and a free PCI-E x4 slot, I've decided to purchase a PCI-E SSD rather than SATA one. Then I read that the my old BIOS motherboard cannot boot from it and got frustrated. Then I found this topic. And finally purchased ADATA PCI-E SSD. I did everything in accordance with instructions and... Clover doesn't seem to be able to boot. I mean, I see all my HDDs and USB drives in Clover menu, but no matter which one I choose, USB stick with Windows setup or HDD with Windows already installed, it just goes black infintely and I have to restart PC and boot from HDD. Again, the main menu of Clover works alright, I see my drives and settings and everything but once I select any drive and press Enter, it's a dead end. I tried to copy all other drivers from "off" folder – it didn't help. I've tried to download a very old version of Clover where 32 and 64 folders are separated like in the instruction – it didn't help either. Do you have any suggestions for me?

UPDATE: I've tried to create a USB bootable stick using Media Creation Tool and now it says Error: No mapping returned from cdboot.efi when I select it in Clover menu.

@marsIANin1991

Zitat von marsIANin1991 im Beitrag #586

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Hi all,
I have a pretty old config M4A88TD-V EVO/USB3 + Phenom II X6 which works alright for me. I also have 3 SATA HDDs (Seagate 10 TB + Seagate 2 TB + Samsung 750 GB) and external USB 3.0 Toshiba 3 TB. Since I have lots of SATA drives already and a free PCI-E x4 slot, I've decided to purchase a PCI-E SSD rather than SATA one. Then I read that the my old BIOS motherboard cannot boot from it and got frustrated. Then I found this topic. And finally purchased ADATA PCI-E SSD. I did everything in accordance with instructions and... Clover doesn't seem to be able to boot. I mean, I see all my HDDs and USB drives in Clover menu, but no matter which one I choose, USB stick with Windows setup or HDD with Windows already installed, it just goes black infintely and I have to restart PC and boot from HDD. Again, the main menu of Clover works alright, I see my drives and settings and everything but once I select any drive and press Enter, it's a dead end. I tried to copy all other drivers from "off" folder – it didn't help. I've tried to download a very old version of Clover where 32 and 64 folders are separated like in the instruction – it didn't help either. Do you have any suggestions for me?

UPDATE: I've tried to create a USB bootable stick using Media Creation Tool and now it says Error: No mapping returned from cdboot.efi when I select it in Clover menu.

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Hi sibliss,
Thank you for your reply!
Thanks to one Russian enthisiast who made a very detailed video on youtube, I've managed to resolve this. The only way to overcome this is to:

1. use UEFI64 shell command line in Clover instead of the main menu;
2. Make a UEFI-bootable Windows 10 flash drive via Rufus software instead of Media Creator

I created a flash drive using Rufus and used command line to launch bootx64.efi file on it. That way it worked and installed successfully. And I can boot the new OS from SSD via main menu of Clover. Still, I cannot boot my old OS from my HDD via Clover menu or boot from any USB drive there (I don't need both options anymore though). I hope this might help someone with the same situation.

I need some assistance. I used clover to get my X58 rig to boot from nvme and it was working just fine the last two days. Yesterday, I was having some issues with the microsoft store so I figured it might have been something to do with the version of windows 10 I was using since the version of windows 10 I have on a usb hasn't been updated in a while. I started to redo my windows 10 usb on my laptop and decided to boot onto my desktop to see if the issue had sorted itself out since sometimes restarts and shut downs fix odd issues like that but when I tried to load my clover usb, I'm greeted by one of two screens. One is just a black screen with a 6 on the top left corner. The other is this one below. I don't know what to do! ;_;

https://i.imgur.com/FgS5z6R.jpg

System Specs:
i7 970 @ 4.4Ghz
MSI X58 Big Bang Xpower
24GB (6x4GB) Mushkin Blackline DDR3-2400 @ 2000mhz
XFX Radeon R9 Fury X
500GB Samsung 970 Evo+ using a Vantec dual m.2 nvme + sata pci-e riser
2x 1TB Seagate Barracuda in Raid 0
Some Chinese 4 port USB 3.0 card with one internal USB 3.0 header pci-e x1 card
Corsair RM1000X PSU

@Troika
The screen you mention with the 6 in the top left is actually the boot6 screen it does actually say boot6 but for some reason it's always cropped off the screen such that you only see the 6.

One of my installs does this on every boot but eventually does load into clover, I am not entirely sure how to fix that issue so I'd certainly be interested to know how when you get it working.

I hope that little bit of information helps.

1) Is Clover on Hard drive or was it launched from USB ?
2) Do you have a hidden "EFI" partition for Windows ?

I would check autoboot settings in Clover's config.plist file (or trying to manually selecting bootx64.efi from EFI partition).

Zitat von sibliss im Beitrag #590

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@Troika
The screen you mention with the 6 in the top left is actually the boot6 screen it does actually say boot6 but for some reason it's always cropped off the screen such that you only see the 6.

One of my installs does this on every boot but eventually does load into clover, I am not entirely sure how to fix that issue so I'd certainly be interested to know how when you get it working.

I hope that little bit of information helps.

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Hello!
Can someone tell me exactly which files should be modified? The new installation is not like the first post.
you know if it supports nvme raid with a pci card like the asus HYPER M.2 X16 CARD. thanks

@pacoor

Zitat von pacoor im Beitrag #593

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Hello!
Can someone tell me exactly which files should be modified? The new installation is not like the first post.
you know if it supports nvme raid with a pci card like the asus HYPER M.2 X16 CARD. thanks

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@sibliss Hey man, i tried to boot the usb stick with the configuration on the first page. When i try to boot the usb with UEFI me screen freezes on the logo of the motherboard... When i try to boot on Legacy, it boot onto clover but it cannot see my nvme ssd. My motherboard is the Gigabyte ga-970a-ds3p fx rev. 2.1. Any thoughts on a possibility to make it work?

@ijokerboy
Hi i notice you have also tried the duet method,
I hope you are using clover and have also read my pinned post.
lets try to get legacy mode working for you. personally i don't even bother with uefi as it makes no difference once clover passes off to the windows bootloader anyway.
so with the above said if legacy boot of clover cannot see your nvme there are 2 most likely reasons this happens, one is that you haven't copied the nvme driver to all of the locations required (up to 6 locations) you can do with just 3 locations in 32 bit mode.(i use 32bit myself because again it makes no difference once it passes off to windows). please ensure to copy the nvme driver dxe file to atleast the following 3 locations
1. Efi\CLOVER\drivers\bios
2. Efi\CLOVER\drivers\uefi
3. Efi\CLOVER\drivers32uefi

This ensures the driver is loaded in clover regardless of bios or uefi boot mode.
The second reason it may not display is that the disk has not been initialized yet ( I suggest web searching disk initialization).

I hope this information helps, and if it still doesn't work by all means report back here.

I'm trying to revive my old Dell Optiplex 580. I've put Samsung PM991 NVMe in PCIE x4 adapter and installed Windows 10 without any problem. But if I try to install Windows 7 I can't get my nvme visible in the installer. I tried option with Nvme hotfix and also tried Samsung drivers (eventough PM991 is not listed there).

Can somebody help?
I have also spare Hynix NVMe but it doesn't show in installer too when I try to install Windows 7 + Hotfix.

I added NVMe hotfix with NTLite.

EDIT: I've sorted out the problem with Gigabyte Windows 7 Tool. This tools implements NVMe into Windows 7 installer well. Everything went smooth on both Samsung PM991 and Hynix drive.

download aioboot from aioboot.com
make a new clover usb and boot from that

Zitat von bujok im Beitrag #597

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But if I try to install Windows 7 I can't get my nvme visible in the installer. I tried option with Nvme hotfix and also tried Samsung drivers (eventough PM991 is not listed there).
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Hi Fernando,

Just wanted to say a big THANK YOU and report eventual success on Dell XPS420 from 2007 running Windows10 with X38 chipset, PCIe2 using Sabrent Rocket 1TB M.2 NVMe in a standard PCIe x4 adapter card which I used as a data drive in Windows 10, but was keen to boot windows from it.

Some things I learned on the way that might help others....
* Use BDU to make CLOVER on the DESTINATION hardware ( I used latest clover v5070 )
* I had lots of problems ( most of symptoms described in other posts ) when using Rufus and an ISO image for windows install. When I used Windows Media Creator to make an install directly to a clean USB it worked first time.
* In the clover boot menu pressing <space> on each drive icon gives a list of details that can help distinguish one drive from another and lists which .efi file will run when you select that drive. This better than the 'trying every drive until you find the right one' method.
* Pressing F3 in the Clover boot menu can show important drives that might not appear by default
* the windows media USB is identified, when you press <space> as a 7710MB volume and shows file efi\microsoft\boot\cdboot.efi at the end of a long string of numbers/letters (BLK:)
* Once installer was working, although NVMe was visible to installer, it could not make partition. Pressing <Shift><f10> whilst in the installer let's you get to CMD prompt without having to restart the installer.
* My problem was solved from CMD prompt using DISKPART then, "select disk <Nvme no>" then "clean" then "convert GPT" then "exit" and "exit" back to installer
AFTER THIS SUCCESSFUL INSTALLATION ( leaving CLOVER USB in permanently as first boot item ). I manually boot from Clover Icon ( the icon that when you press <space> that has 99MB volume and 'Run bootmgfw.efi' in the list. )

( In my experimental tests I did go from Clover menu into clover shell, <left most icon under disk icons> and played with "help" and "map" and to check plist.config ( via edit ) and it was interesting learning but not relevant to my particular install )
( Likewise I exited Clover to Windows Boot Manager <right most icon under disk icons > and played with "Boot From File" under Boot Maintenance Manager - again interesting but not relevant for my particular install)

It's given the PC a new lease of life, and for now I'm going to stick with my simple USB CLOVER boot, maybe move CLOVER boot to SSD in future.
For those struggling, I recommend you persevere as success transforms your PC.

THANKS :-)