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Help on how to boot from old SSD on newest Motherboard
I have a PC with a motherboard ASROCK H510M-HDV/M2 retail and a disk SSD Patriot P300 512GB NVME M.2 PCIE GEN 3 X4.
On hand I have an older SSD Apacer 240GB with Windows 10 Pro on it.
I want (and need) to set the old Apacer as the boot drive but :
In the BIOS
1. It is recognized as a SATA disk
2. It does not show up in the boot menu. Only the newer NvMe is shown in the boot manager.
3. When I remove the NVME disk, there is no boot disk available.
There must be some BIOS tweak to make the "legacy" SSD as boot disk but I cannot find it.
Any help appreciated.
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- KellanWarnerIron Contributor
If set to UEFI only, the BIOS won't recognize traditional SATA drives as boot options unless they have UEFI boot loaders. Change it to Legacy or CSM (Compatibility Support Module) mode, which allows booting from BIOS-compatible drives.