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So, does this issue appears because my W7 is MBR? Thanks.

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Yup, I think so.

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1) For a while it's a clone - not installation

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So... it is visible in BIOS/UEFI, or it's not visible in BIOS/UEFI - which is it ?

Don't visible in BIOS UEFI. Only in Clover.

CSM Enabled with EFI booting/support or is it Disabled ?

I drop my attempts to run my SSD via Clover with no problems and bought Asus Z97-K for my old CPU. Z97-K fully supports all NVMe features (as described), so I believe that there will be no problems with booting from NVMe on this mobo.
I bring my SSD to work with Clover but I met some problems with it - hanging in Clover screen, hanging while booting and sometimes a blank black screen after Windows 7 begins to start.
Thanks all for help.

Hello everyone. I have an ASUS P6X58-E WS and I'm debating and pretty sure going to buy either an SM961 AHCI pcie SSD or an NVME version. From what I've read, I shouldn't have any problems booting Windows 7 from the AHCI version, but I would much prefer the speeds of an NVME version. One problem I've been having is I can't for the life of me get a TianoCore DUET boot disk created. I spent a few days (the entire day) trying different EDK's and DUET's and on my last attempt my PC compiled for just over two minutes and then stopped with two errors (I forget what they were), so I never was able to create my DUET boot stick. I do however have a bootable Clover disk on stand-by. My first question would be would Clover detect and boot from the NVME drive after having all of the correct drivers on the boot USB stick and on my install of Windows 7 x64, and then just cloning the disk to the NVME drive? Could Clover automatically detect and boot that Windows install? If not, what are my options? An AHCI pcie SSD? There has to be a way to boot from an NVME pcie SSD as I've seen many posts of it actually working (with both success stories (here on this site) and Youtube videos using DUET)). I love the X58 I have, the 990X in it along with 24GB's of RAM, I just need way fast disk access. I've tried two 950 Pro SATA3's in RAID0 and wasn't impressed at all, so the PCI-Express bus is the ONLY way to get pretty awesome speeds without upgrading everything I have in my PC case. I've read that DUET is the preferred EFI emulation boot loader and that's what I'd prefer to use rather then Clover. Any chance one of you kind gentlemen would post a download link for a USB DUET iso? I need all the help I can get at this point..

EDIT by Fernando: Post moved from the "BIOS Modding" into the better matching "NVMe Support without BIOS Modding" Sub-Forum and post title customized

Update: I gave one last attempt using the correct version of Visual Studio and it finished compiling with zero errors! However, when I run the command "CreateBootDisk.bat usb e: FAT32 X64" from the DuetPkg directory, I get the error messages: ERROR: Could patch own IDE disk! | GenBootSector: ERROR 1003: Invalid option value - output file can't be found.

I am getting closer as my PC completed the code compiling portion, but what are the errors above? And what do I do about them?

Wow. You saved me a lot of pain with this :) I have an HP Z620 Workstation (for which you basically can't modify the BIOS as far as I can tell) and a Samsung 960 EVO NVMe PCIe SSD and I wasn't able, by any means, to get the system to recognize it as a bootable drive. (I saw many people speculating that it could work based on good results with the Samsung 950 PRO but no such luck in reality.) I was getting ready to give up and install Win10 on a classic SATA 3 SSD and use the 960 EVO as a second drive, until I found this guide. Followed the instructions and it basically mostly just worked. The chief wrinkle I ran into was that there seemed to be something strange with using Win10 install media on a USB along with Clover on another USB-- but once I switched to using a Win10 DVD all went pretty smoothly. My one other complaint is that the Clover theme I wound up with is the Metal theme, which looks weird. I will have to customize it. But I don't much care about that. It WORKS.

Like you I don't want to have a USB thumb drive sticking out forever, but my machine (like many, I suspect) has internal USB port headers on the motherboard. You can add one of these:
http://amzn.to/2s2M7El

and you get two internal USB ports, where you can safely plug in your USB stick.

Right now my only questions are
a) whether this will somehow interfere with the use of Samsung's drivers for the SSD vs. those that come vanilla with Windows. I may have a little issue there but I don't think it's Clover doing it.
b) when I add a couple of extra drives I have lying around, I need to make sure the system doesn't start trying to boot from them. I'm sure this will be manageable.

But on the whole, compared to the hassle I was dealing with, this was pretty pain-free. Thanks again!

Hi Dieter,

I managed to install Windows on a Samsung 960 EVO for my test-MB (F2A85-V PRO) using Clover and it works; what I could not manage to do ( in German: nicht um's Verrecken !) is automatically boot my OS (Win7).
The system boots into Clover, but it waits for an "Enter" to boot the US.
I tried with the Timeout in the config-file: nothing, no success.
What can I do (if there is a possibility)?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Hi Dieter,

sure, the F2A85-V PRO has an UEFI-BIOS, but probably without a OpROM-Module for the Samsung NVMe.
I hope the UEFI-BIOS on my work PC will have that (GA-G1.Sniper A88X); if not it's the end of my experiment with M2. SSDs.

It means either BIOS-mod or Clover....

Zitat von Thiersee im Beitrag #85

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I managed to install Windows on a Samsung 960 EVO for my test-MB (F2A85-V PRO) using Clover and it works; what I could not manage to do is automatically boot my OS (Win7).
The system boots into Clover, but it waits for an "Enter" to boot the US.
I tried with the Timeout in the config-file: nothing, no success.

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