Looking for assistance with upgrading an NVMe M.2 SSD on your HP Omen 870-244?
Looking for assistance with upgrading an NVMe M.2 SSD on your HP Omen 870-244?
I'm working on improving my HP Omen 870-244. I bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus to use as the boot disk. But it's not functioning properly. My first try was cloning the existing HDD to the M.2 slot with Macrium Reflect, but the system didn't recognize it as a boot drive. The second attempt was setting up a boot USB and installing Windows fresh, only connecting the SSD. That worked initially, and the system booted from the SSD until I reconnected the original HDD. After that, the SSD stopped being detected as a boot drive, even after removing the HDD. Plus, the boot USB no longer works. This is confusing me. I need advice on getting the SSD to function as my boot drive again. Any suggestions would be great.
Can't you select in the Bios from which drive to boot ? Maybe you could update the Bios ? Found that file with maybe useful info I believe your SSD should still work with the HDD attached. I believe your computer got confused when you attached the bootable HDD back. I believe it's a simple task to unconfuse it. Although I understand it can look like a mess. Even the first trial with Macrium should have worked And just for fun, here is the whole procedure for install of windows on nvme drive with Secure Boot enabled. 1 - Make sure you unplug all SATA and USB drives, the M.2 drive has to be the only drive installed. 2 - Go into the bios, under the boot tab there is an option for CSM, make sure it is disabled. 3 - Click on secure boot option below and make sure it is set to other OS, Not windows UEFI. 4 - Click on key management and clear secure boot keys. 5 - Insert a USB memory stick with a UEFI bootable ISO of Windows 10 on it. 6 - Press F10 to save, exit and reboot. 7 - Windows will now start installing to your NVME drive as it has its own NVME driver built in. 8 - When the PC reboots hit F2 to go back into the BIOS, you will see under boot priority that Windows boot manager now lists your NVME drive. 9 - Click on secure boot again but now set it to Windows UEFI mode. 10 - Click on key management and install default secure boot keys 11 - Press F10 to save and exit and windows will finish the install. c04409752.pdf
Hey there, I noticed the drive cloning with Macrium Reflect didn't work as expected and you encountered a boot drive not found issue. I have a few questions about the approach you were advised to try.
1) In your BIOS, I couldn't locate any entry named CSM. Did you take pictures of it using your phone, and do you think it has a different name?
2) The only way the M.2 drive appears in the boot menu seems to be by turning off Secure Boot and enabling Legacy Boot. Could you share some photos of that setup?
3) I'm a bit worried about removing the secure boot keys, since I've heard it might prevent booting altogether. As someone more traditional, I haven't worked with secure boot or keys before.
1 let's pretend CSM is ok, I can't say more 2 3 I was nervous too when I did it, but you're doing a clean install. You're not risking much. I believe it's only a issue with an existing OS. Oh, I understand, your previous OSs might not boot anymore afterwards... Sorry, can't help you more, I'm no expert. I did find that procedure online and it worked for me. I have Secure Boot enabled (HWiNFO64 to check it)