#HOW TO CHANGE CLOVER BOOT LOADER INSTALL#

There are a number of solutions to this problem, but the safest one (and the one I chose), is to install Clover to a USB stick, and have the PC use that as a boot menu. If you want to boot from the drive, youвЂ™ll probably now encounter another problem: when you power on, your system wonвЂ™t вЂњseeвЂќ the drive as a boot device. Yes, it looks a bit ridiculous XD The access lights on the back of the PC with the card installed Booting from the NVME SSD Unscrewing the side-panel screw The inside of the case The adaptor card inserted into my GPU cage. Note that youвЂ™ll need to insert your NVME SSD into the card first.

The process varies depending on your case, but itвЂ™s usually as simple as taking the side panel off your case, removing a blanking plate, and then inserting and screwing the card in. I donвЂ™t have detailed steps for your system, but I can show you how it worked on mine. Installing the adaptor is usually pretty easy. In the end, I went for this one because it was cheap and it looked like I could boot from it вЂ“ some other adaptors have caused problems with this. In order to connect an M.2 drive to a PCIe slot, there are various adaptors available. If youвЂ™re using a standard ATX motherboard, you may well have multiple PCIe slots, but in my case I had to ditch the graphics card, which was an acceptable compromise for me because I wasnвЂ™t using it anyway. Fortunately, any recent desktop will use PCIe for the graphics card, and my old PC was no exception. I was really interested in the PCI Express/PCIe drives. So first I should point out that some M.2 drives actually use SATA, but I wasnвЂ™t interested in those as I could just connect a SATA SSD. YouвЂ™ll see reference to rEFInd in the comments, but this is because I somehow got confused and thought I was using rEFInd instead of Clover. Similar steps can be followed for rEFInd, but that will only boot EFI/UEFI-based systems, whereas Clover can boot both BIOS and EFI/UEFI systems.

#HOW TO CHANGE CLOVER BOOT LOADER WINDOWS#

This will work for booting both Windows and Linux, on systems with either BIOS or EFI/UEFI firmware. Fortunately, there is a way to get these super-fast storage devices working on older desktop PCs (unfortunately this wonвЂ™t work on laptops). The old PC (an Alienware X51 R2) didnвЂ™t have a M.2 slot to accommodate an NVME drive, which is common on systems of that age (circa late 2013). NVME SSDs were quite cheap at the time, so I got myself a second hand 500GB Samsung OEM one commonly found in laptops. Back in October when I set up my new Ryzen PC, I thought it might be good to get an NVME SSD for the older desktop as well вЂ“ IвЂ™d pinched all the drives from it for the new PC, and I didnвЂ™t want to be stuck using my old, slow HDD.

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