Boot priority between NVMe and SSD

Littlenose

Littlenose

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I’ve just built up a new box and it’s booting happily from the nvme drive.
However, I realise I need some files off the old SSD drive, but it’s also a bootable drive.

Although I can find options to choose priority for booting between USB, CD, hard drive etc, I can’t seem to find where I get to choose which actual drive if there are more than one. Any guidance is appreciated.
It’s on a MSI MAG Tomahawk X670E
 
Littlenose said:
I’ve just built up a new box and it’s booting happily from the nvme drive.
However, I realise I need some files off the old SSD drive, but it’s also a bootable drive.

Although I can find options to choose priority for booting between USB, CD, hard drive etc, I can’t seem to find where I get to choose which actual drive if there are more than one. Any guidance is appreciated.
It’s on a MSI MAG Tomahawk X670E
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Go to advanced menu in the bios > settings > boot, and select you nvme as the first boot device, it should be labelled as Hard Drive (Windows Blah) and maybe the serial number of the drive afterwards, set all the other options 2 through to 7 as disabled, they will still show in windows but just wont be used by the bios to boot from.

Failing that, enable hot plugging for SATA drives in the bios then just connect the power to the SSD and once windows has finished booting, plug in the data cable to the SSD, you'll then be in Windows on your nvme and hot plugging the SSD pretty much like you would with a USB stick.
 
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Littlenose said:
I’ve just built up a new box and it’s booting happily from the nvme drive.
However, I realise I need some files off the old SSD drive, but it’s also a bootable drive.
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Unless you have bitlocker enabled or something, you should be able to just copy them off the drive by assigning a drive letter to it within Windows (), though be careful with that because don't want to end up formatting it.
 
Press F11 when booting (i.e. press power button, then keep pressing F11 while it posts) and this normally let's you select the drive to boot from as a one off without having to change the bios settings :)
 
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