New NVMe drive as boot device.


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I was watching a video on cloning a current NVM e drive (500GB) to a 1TB drive and my query is can I use the cloned drive to boot the machine if I leave the boot order to the external drive?
I am asking because I would like to have faster boot up and run time for my older Ivy Bridge build which does not have the required slot for a NVMe drive, and thence the external drive would be my boot device?
But as I mentioned this is just a possible workaround to get the Ivy Bridge build to go a little faster than it is right now. By the by I am using the Ivy Bridge to run Windows 11 pro with the bypass commands and so far it has been really good experience if a little slower because the installed drive is a plain Samsung 860 SSD.
 
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If you have an extra PCIe slot you can use one of these.
vantecusa.com

M.2 NVMe + M.2 SATA SSD PCIe x4 Adapter

The M.2 NVMe + M.2 SATA SSD PCIe x4 Adapter is a unique product with 2 very different M.2 Slot. It can offer the fastest boot or data access thru the NVMe SSD and at the same time provide very fast storage through the M.2 SATA SSD. It provides the link between PCIe 4 lanes of data path straight...
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ICIT2LOL said:
can I use the cloned drive to boot the machine if I leave the boot order to the external drive?
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Yes you can choose which drive to boot from at boot by getting to the boot menu and choosing what drive you want to boot from. Boot menu is accessed differently by brand. The most commonly used key is f12. I have a Dell, too, and that's what I hit just as soon as I see the Dell flash screen. In the upper right corner you would see 'entering boot menu'
 

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RD Mercer said:
If you have an extra PCIe slot you can use one of these.
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No RD mate most of the slots are taken up with GPU and sound card or I would do just that. :-)
glasskuter said:
Yes you can choose which drive to boot from at boot by getting to the boot menu and choosing what drive you want to boot from. Boot menu is accessed differently by brand.
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Ok Glasskuter I shall have to use the drive as an external drive anyway it is worth a try;-)
 

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In my experience, there is not much difference between an SSD and an NVMe drive for booting windows.
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cineman195 said:
In my experience, there is not much difference between an SSD and an NVMe drive for booting windows.
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Ok cineman the drive in the machine intended for change does boot quite slowly so any upping the boot speed will be a plus. Anyway if push comes to shove I can always use the new drive as backup drive for my main laptop ;-)
 

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Does the bios in your ivybridge support nvme boot ?

If so, you could use a pcie x1 slot adapter.

pcie 3.0 x1 slot

mp510-gab75m-pcie-x1-crystaldisk.jpg

pcie 2.0 x1 slot

adpter-x1-on-pcie-2..0-random.jpg
 
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