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Osmankis
Sep 10, 2025Iron Contributor
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 (a...
DavidGarcia
Sep 11, 2025Iron Contributor
- Ensure that the BIOS is set to UEFI, Legacy, or CSM mode.
- Since your SATA SSD is recognized as a SATA disk, switching to Legacy or enabling Compatibility Support Module (CSM) might allow it to show up as a boot option.
- If the BIOS is in UEFI Mode only, the SATA drive may not appear unless it has a proper UEFI bootloader.