Fortunately, there is a way to get these super-fast storage devices working on older desktop PCs (unfortunately this won’t work on laptops). The old PC (an Alienware X51 R2) didn’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. NEW EDIT - the link for the downloader at cvad-mac.narod-ru doesn’t work any more.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 – I’d pinched all the drives from it for the new PC, and I didn’t want to be stuck using my old, slow HDD. PS - EDIT - Hey - is it possible to use EasyBCD to do what Clover is doing? NEW EDIT - Apparently not as EasyBCD is not a boot loader. But first step is to get Clover up and running. Later (now now), I’ll ask about cloning my existing HDDs to the SSDs – I don’t want to reinstall OSes or apps or data, etc. Once I’ve managed to install Clover onto a USB stick so that I can boot from that stick and see what Clover looks like, I know I’ll pick up more basics pretty fast. So, if possible, please point me to a link – maybe a page on this thread – that helps me with these very basic initial steps (which I admit are more basic than most folks here expect). What exactly do I download from the github Clover site, and then what do I do with my downloads? The github pages for Clover are not self-explanatory, and I’ve never installed anything from github before. This is obviously the best place for Clover knowledge, but – believe it or not – it’s still not clear to me exactly HOW to install Clover onto a small USB stick, or how to add any extra drivers that are needed. I have a Dell Optiplex 7010 and a Dell Optiplex 3010, which won’t boot from NVMes in PCI slots. I want to clone the HDDs of two older Dell Optiplexes to NVMe SSDs (using adapters to insert the NVMes into the PCs’ PCIe slots) and then use Clover to make those PCs boot from the new NVMes. I have come here to learn how to install and use Clover for a specific purpose. Hello knowledgeable forum - I have just joined. I’ve tried a lot of NvmExpressDxe.efi from different sources - everything is the same. Windows installer allows me to install Win10 on the NVMe SSD (before the first reboot, then Clover is loaded - and there was no NVMe SSD, and no). NVMe SSD - APPLE SSD SM0032L, it is visible both in Device Manager and in Disk Management, partition table - GPT. USB stick - Clover is installed, I’ve selectively tried versions from 4003 to 5141. It looks like the driver NvmExpressDxe.efi is not seeing the NVMe SSD. Maybe you can tell me what I’m doing wrong. Hello everyone, thanks very much for the guide!
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