First time with a new mobo and M.2 SSD...advice needed please

darrenkarp · 28 Dec 2023 at 18:43

Hi All,

My current rig has 3 x Samsung SATA SSDs which I'm keeping but I've bought a WD Black 1TB M.2 NVMe drive which will go in my new mobo and be used to boot from as well as a couple of games. Should I not connect my existing SSDs until I've installed Windows 11 on the M.2 then connect the SATA drives as one of them is currently the boot drive?

Cheers
Daz

Dg834man · 28 Dec 2023 at 19:20

Would say its good practice, i fell foul of this in the past ended up with the mbr on the wrong drive.

sg0 · 28 Dec 2023 at 19:52

Dg834man said:
Would say its good practice, i fell foul of this in the past ended up with the mbr on the wrong drive.

And me! I would like to add that you can get some other strange results from having multiple windows boot drives. They seem to play nice for a while but usually (for me) something borks with the start up files. Perhaps move the data and clean the drive when convenient.

darrenkarp · 28 Dec 2023 at 20:00

So, leave the SATA drives disconnected until I've got the M.2 settled?

adidan · 28 Dec 2023 at 20:06

As others have said it avoids potential issues, which I have had happen when having more than one connected when doing a fresh install.