How to Install a NVMe SSD Into Any PC Without an M.2 Slot

[@georgecolacicco8262]

Excellent! If only a fraction of the legion of KZbin "explainers" could be as clear and thorough and succint as this man, we'd watch only ONE video and get thing done (correctly) the first time!

[@walter_lesaulnier]

If someone is considering one of these cards that can take 2 or more NVMe drives, they need to be very sure that their motherboard is capable of bifurcation of the PCIe slot. If not, then to use a card with more than one drive will require a much more expensive card with bifurcation built in. And Clover is awesome.

[@chrisschembari2486]

Tip: If you want to use a flash drive like this and your PC has an unused USB header (a set of pins), you can buy a set of USB internal wires with a USB Type A socket on one end, and attach a USB flash drive inside the case, secured with a Velcro strap, a zip tie or whatever so that the drive doesn't rattle around in the case. I once had an HP Pavilion desktop back in the days of Windows Me, and I considered doing this for extra storage - though I had no plans to boot from that flash drive.

[@axtelnemeth8456]

Thanks for the video. explains perfectly how to install clover , I couldn't get clover to work until your video 🙂The part about installing the nvmExpressDxe.efi driver into the other two files was the part I was missing Now I am hoping up all my old gaming computers! What a difference! thank you

[@shyamyenagandula2178]

Genuine Question: I want to boot windows from my M.2 SATA SSD not NVMe SSD. I've tried every single step mentioned but couldn't boot from it (M.2 SATA not NVMe) Any suggestions?

[@TheHowToGuy123]

You'll need a SATA M.2 to SATA adapter. Once connected, your BIOS should recognize it and will boot into it without the need for clover.

[@shyamyenagandula2178]

Ok.. but I've got this 0:12 adapter and I want to boot my drive from it.. Is there any tweak/method/fix to do so..?

[@TheHowToGuy123]

@@shyamyenagandula2178Nope. This adapter will never work. NVMe M.2 SSDs run of PCIe. SATA M.2 SSDs use SATA. So connecting a SATA SSD into a PCIe slot using that adapter will never work.

[@shyamyenagandula2178]

@@TheHowToGuy123 Oh, now I got the idea. Thanks 🙏

[@asterius23]

Hell yeah the howtoguy back at with another tutorial 💪

[@edw7209]

You also can configure the plist file in clover to speed up 5seconds waiting time till 1 second and last one , with partitition tools you can hide the usb station in my computer

[@xxtrippyxx420xx9]

Please explain my friend

[@BloodTek]

you can just create EFI system partition on your SATA SSD (200MB in size), move clover here and set SATA SSD as 1st boot device. That's how you no longer need to plug a USB drive all of the time.

[@cryptobilal6506]

if we have pcle slot occupied by gpu and plce 3.0*1 is free then how to install it in it?

[@Hugo-fb2lt]

Hey, you're saving Christmas this year, it worked after 8h straight trying to figure out what to do. Ive got one last question, can i remove the USB device v´from my PC or do I have to leave it there forever? Happy Christmas yall

[@TheHowToGuy123]

You must leave the USB in your computer at all times in order to boot to your SSD

[@olzzon]

I have an old hp xeon workstation with win 10 but going to install a custom rom win 11 to be able to use win 11 and future proof the old system som my question is , will this work even on win 11 since you're using win 10 on yours ? 🙏🏻

[@cageliner]

I installed that same unit with a 1TB NVMe M.2 on a 2014 ASUS H97 Plus, Core i5 4th Gen. I used the PCIe x16_2 (x4) slot. I lost my 1x slots because of lane limits but the drive boots into Win 11. Oddly, the M.2 shows up in the BIOS only in the boot menu and under the NVMe setings, but there's no indication of where the M.2 is located. SATA drives are listed by socket number but the M.2 is just... there LOL. NOTE: the drive was cloned from the original drive, and uses legacy boot, not UEFI. The BIOS can handle either. The drive also appears in Disk Management.

[@Askeyb2011]

Question. PC motherboard only has one PCIe slot and a video card is in it. I'm guessing no other remaining slots will work with a card.

[@DarkJBear]

Will this run at the same speed?

[@davesmith8101]

Thank you for this, I have just tried this yesterday but without clover. My motherboard is about ten years old, yes I should buy a new one! I will definitely try Clover as I think it could well iron out some problems with dual booting Linux and windows 10. I am using a 4th gen i7 4790K, it’s fast enough but so old! Incidentally windows could see the drive but not at boot up as the NVME drive did not show in bios for obvious reasons. Thanks again!

[@otwock2]

What is your motherboard? I've seen reports that some motherboards need a UEFI ("BIOS") update to have such adapter working. So I guess motherboard old enough may not be a good fit for such installation.

[@sarakrocan6151]

Thanks for your video. I did everything in the video but I still have a problem. My computers loads 10 minutes. There is a black screen, monitor seems like it has nosignal, usb ports don't work for mobile charging. I tried to restart it many times but it's still the same. Do you know what can be the problem?

[@ytmaxxammo8591]

Drivers

[@chetmyers7041]

Contact the manufacturer of the motherboard and request an updated Atablachron.

[@Fran-yg4jp]

will this work for a dell 9020 and can i just do a system migration instead or do Linux install same way ? or does have to be fresh install of windows ?

[@DavidJohnson-tv2nn]

Thanks! Can I duel boot Windows 10/11 Where Windows 11 is installed on an NVMe drive and Windows is installed on a SATA drive? The system is a Dell OptiPlex 9010 currently set to MBR, not GPT.

[@itzprem09]

Brother i have old pc it has a hdd which runs slow and i want to install m.2 nvme but it doesn't have m.2 nvme slot i want to use in pci x16 slot can it gives a full speed or not ?

[@chrisschembari2486]

Good video, and the USB bootloader workaround was obviously a clever solution. If you were already planning to install a SATA SSD, I don't understand why you would bother with the Clover solution. As long as you install that SATA drive before you attempt to install Windows, I'm pretty sure that the Windows installer will prompt you to specify a small boot partition (NTFS, anywhere from 10 to 200 MB) on the first bootable drive whenever you try to install C:\ on some other storage drive that's not the first in your boot order. It happened to me once; but that was many years ago, so unfortunately the details ("Was it XP?") are a little foggy at the moment.

[@bombthebass6803]

Cheers. Got there in the end must of watched the vid 20 times. 😂 Just be sure to put the nvme files in both folders i was wondering why the drive didn't show up 🤦

[@derekwilson285]

MICRO usb 4gb. only sticks out 5/6mm. buy a coloured one. differentiate between clover boot drive and keyboard/ mouse dongles. ps if i have windows on a ssd, can i just clone to m.2.

[@zenity5211]

could i install it in the pcie x1 slot without loss of storage and performance as my gpu uses my only x16 slot?

[@モノノフ-n1j]

Is it possible to install Clover EFI bootloader on a SATA connected SSD using rufus?

[@TheHowToGuy123]

I think it should work

[@march6053]

Thanks bhai for your knowledge and time, is it safe and durable??

[@モノノフ-n1j]

Is this possible for Windows11 24H2 as well?

[@steviejanssen]

Great video, I have an old HP 8300 SFF and an NVME drive from a previous upgrade lying around, definitely going to try this. I´m going to see if I can install Clover on a SATA SSD instead of a USB thumb drive tho, which then I can use as extra storage whilst getting rid of the error and the extra drive.

[@matthewtaylor1719]

I was thinking about trying this Did it work?

[@edw7209]

Great video, you forgot one thing. You have to disable secure boot in bios , otherwise clover won,t boot Windows from her bootloader. If you use the Boot utility disk software you only have to click on format and the software does the rest for you beside copy and paste the drivers you need. In that case You dont have to use rufus.

[@TheResendiz16]

Will this affect performance since it’s using an adapter???

[@slaydog5102]

Yes it will but it will still be better than a sata ssd or hdd

[@groundzero2k10]

is there any card that can do what is shown above in the RAM SLOT???

[@slaydog5102]

What do you mean in the ram slot? You mean pcie slot?

[@trichert7360]

Older motherboards do not boot from NVME. You need to add some code to uefi bios.

[@ahmadzahafiz363]

i cannot find the clover iso from the link

[@ericfranklin6229]

cant find the ISO image. None of the current versions have iso.

[@Eggybreadcoolest]

I want to boot from my data ssd but still be able to see my m.2 drive how do I do it?

[@starcosplays3224]

I do not have on clover boot Microsoft efi from efi I have boot Microsoft efi from esd-usb could you please help me Edit: Nevermind I seem to have fixed it easily by adding a extra sata ssd/hdd Edit: Nevermind I’m incompetent and it didn’t work

[@ASK25565]

It's Works Thanks 👍

[@MianSaed]

Does i5 motherboard support m2 ssd

[@karthikmallur8850]

How do u install if u have a graphics card like rtx 3060

[@TheHowToGuy123]

You would put the card an available PCIe slot.

[@VyniuxRy]

does the speed get affected if i chose 4 pcie than 16 pcie?

[@MSalmanAlvi]

Maybe Because If You Use RTX 2060 Super GPU . Than Speed Also Decreese Its Called Bottle Neck , RTX 2060 SUPER 8 GB Card New Card Required 16 Pins PCIe Slot

[@VyniuxRy]

@@MSalmanAlvi i have a x16 (x4) pcie slot since in the future i will have a gpu in my x16 so i did some intense research and found out if i put the nvme in thr x16 (x4) the speed will half but faster than ssd and hdd

[@VyniuxRy]

​@@MSalmanAlvi Btw do you know how i can boot into my nvme without clover usb bootable always in my usb port? chatgpt says i should make another partition where i can copy clover bootable folder and files onto that and configure it but i have no knowledge how to do it

[@kwonpv]

as far as I know, nvme drive on pcie can only utilize 4 lanes so no need to plug it to 16 lanes slot. correct me if I'm wrong

[@vishalsahu1981]

I have m.2 slot in my motherboard but still i am watching your video 😂 love from india 🙏

[@Phjghh]

It means your address jobless and have time to waste

[@tonydisabatino]

Awesome Video

[@antoniiocaluso1071]

why remove future GPU use in that old PC? Might happen :-) Instead, is there a video here for using a smaller PCi-slot, instead? That would seem more useful, no? thanks! sub'd/liked

[@TheHowToGuy123]

I mostly used this PC as a test to see if I was able to boot to the SSD from the PCIe slot without the BIOS recognizes it. I now use this adapter in a PC with multiple PCIe slots. However this computer will never get a graphics card, its mostly used for web browsing and excel. Integrated graphics work fine for the use case.

[@home_Grown_studio]

Hey Kyle I thout that to be a graphic slot

[@TheHowToGuy123]

A PCIe slot can be used for any PCIe device. A graphics card is the most common card that goes in a PCIe slot. Generally motherboards have more than one PCIe slot, so a graphics card will go in the top most slot and this SSD adapter would go in the second PCIe slot.

[@home_Grown_studio]

@@TheHowToGuy123 I did not know that. Thank you for the education. So cool!

[@bhupinder786singh]

have to mod the bios to make it bootable

[@ConveyorMan]

Thanks.

[@thephpdeve]

Ok, but now where will i fit my gpu?

[@RohitKumar-cu3hh]

In Plce x16 riser card .

[@Imsopro_19]

What if I have a gpu

[@Myticalweedwizard]

I have a GPU that I'm trying to add

[@Myticalweedwizard]

I need a video to show how to add the SSD plus the GPU

[@Beke-n8f]

Im disabled gpu for my monitor is black.How to fix it? Can you help me?

[@adriancoanda9227]

dude that MB had 2 by 4 slots yhy you waste a x16 slot ? check if your cpus supports nvme cause els those will run at sata speeds.

[@TheHowToGuy123]

Those are x1 slots. The adapter won't fit in those. This computer is from 2012, and was merely used as an example. I will never use the PCIe x16 slot on this machine for anything else.

[@adriancoanda9227]

@@TheHowToGuy123 y would do diffrent if you have the x 1slots you could add 2 disks in 2 cards MZHOU M.2 SSD M-Key NVME PCIe 3.0 x1 Card Adapter with Low and Full Mount - Supports M.2 PCIe 2230, 2242, 2260 and 2280 or if you have empty ram slots Zerthaus DDR3 DDR4 DDR2 to M2 SSD Adapter M.2 NGFF B Key Riser Card SATA 15Pin Power + SATA 7Pin Data Port Support 2242 M.2 SSD for the x16 y would go for HighPoint SSD7540 PCIe 4.0 x16 8-Channel the gpu will go for a E-gpu setup where the is another way to add storage your solution is wasting lanes useless you will use max x4 anyway the rest are gone in nirvana

[@kwonpv]

@@adriancoanda9227 sound interesting. but any PC comes with SATA, why don't use a sata drive instead since no performance difference? only pcie 4x or 16x can max out the potential of a nvme drive.

[@adriancoanda9227]

@@kwonpv all nvme drives are 4x4lanes the speeds are in the controller and nanad chips in 16 cpu lanes you can install 4 Nvme drives if your cpu supports it if not it needs a special chip and no not all comes with Sata connector because it is legacy nvme its a bus mostly for mobile and server where space is critical, and not all motherboards have the x16 slot wired for x16 it is by 8