Hi everyone.
I have got an Acer VN7-791G which doens't support NVME but I was thinking to follow this guide to use my SSD.
I have got a Samsung SSD Pro 950 M.2. My bios doesn't recognize it. I have tried unlocking the bios and looking at all the available options but no luck.
If I use this guide will I able to use my SSD and boot windows from it?
Thanks...

Zitat von lokker im Beitrag #91

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I have got a Samsung SSD Pro 950 M.2. My bios doesn't recognize it.

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No because the Bios doesn't recognize it.

Zitat von lokker im Beitrag #93

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No because the Bios doesn't recognize it.

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Zitat von agentx007 im Beitrag #90

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Have you tried my settings ?
Other than timeout, in config.plist I set :
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I don't want to sound like I know more than you because it's not but I have tried everything and still Windows 10 doesn't recognize it.
One thing I haven't done is to install any driver because online they say Windows 10 already supports NVME SSDs and anyway there is not any SSD recognized by Device Manager app
or the Disk Partitioning tool of Windows. That being said, any idea what could be wrong?
Thanks for your support.

Zitat von lokker im Beitrag #96

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I don't want to sound like I know more than you because it's not but I have tried everything and still Windows 10 doesn't recognize it.
One thing I haven't done is to install any driver because online they say Windows 10 already supports NVME SSDs and anyway there is not any SSD recognized by Device Manager app
or the Disk Partitioning tool of Windows. That being said, any idea what could be wrong?

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Zitat von Ferrous im Beitrag #97

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Zitat von lokker im Beitrag #96

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I don't want to sound like I know more than you because it's not but I have tried everything and still Windows 10 doesn't recognize it.
One thing I haven't done is to install any driver because online they say Windows 10 already supports NVME SSDs and anyway there is not any SSD recognized by Device Manager app
or the Disk Partitioning tool of Windows. That being said, any idea what could be wrong?

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It draws a conclusion that the M.2 socket of your laptop only supports SATA SSD but not PCIe SSD.

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Zitat von bigalv69 im Beitrag #81

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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?

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Finally after tinkering with Clover, I just re-installed Windows 7 x64 on my ASUS P6X58-E WS, and since you can't use Windows Loader to activate Windows on a GPT partition I looked around the Net and bought a Genuine License Key for $7.99. It work's too! lol.. So everything is running smoothly and extremely fast. Check out my Crystal Disk info with my Samsung 960 Evo M.2 SSD. ;-) Ohh yeah....

Crystal Disk info with the 960 Evo as my C drive.. ;-) Not to shabby for an X58 Chipset..

Those are some great scores you guys are getting! But if you want to have a minimal and lightest bootloader possible might want to try to migrate to Tianocore unless of course you want to run a hackintosh more power to you!

I've tried for a week to get TianoCore Duet compiled and created but I've had zero luck. Any ideas for Duet? I'd prefer Duet but Clover is the only bootloader I have working at this point.. Any help on building Duet would be greatly appreciated. Any chance you could create an ISO of your DUET USB stick and post a download link for me???

Zitat von bigalv69 im Beitrag #103

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I've tried for a week to get TianoCore Duet compiled and created but I've had zero luck. Any ideas for Duet? I'd prefer Duet but Clover is the only bootloader I have working at this point.. Any help on building Duet would be greatly appreciated. Any chance you could create an ISO of your DUET USB stick and post a download link for me???

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Okay. A member gave me the link to download the UDK2015 version of DUET, but my NVME SSD isn't fs1 and I have NO IDEA how to edit startup.sh. I assume fs mean's file system, and the 1 mean's the 1st one, but don't we start at 0? Something like my NVME SSD is fs0. Dunno.. HELP?