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Windows Boot Manager with M.2?

Tibor Hazafi

Tibor Hazafi

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System Name hazazs
Processor Intel Core i7-6700K @4.0GHz
Motherboard MSI B250 GAMING M3
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Video Card(s) MSI GTX 980 Gaming 4G
Storage Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB / Kingston DataTraveler SE9 G2 8GB
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Mouse Logitech G300S
Keyboard Logitech Ultra-Flat
Software Microsoft Windows 10 Professional x64
Hi all,
In <this> video in the Boot Option list there are two separate instances:
1. Windows Boot Manager (Samsung SSD 970 PRO 1TB)
2. Samsung SSD 970 PRO 1TB
Which is the difference between of them, and which one should I use to boot the OS properly?

I'm asking this because I want to buy a Samsung 970 EVO Plus 1TB M.2 SSD as my ONLY hard drive with two partition (Windows 10 Pro x64 on the smaller one (~131GB)) and I want to select the proper first boot option.
Thanks in advance!
hazazs
 
Windows boot manager is the one created during W10 installation, use it. It will be located on your M.2 drive. Unless you have any additional drives running windows installation you don't need to do a thing. After W10 install your primary boot device should be the one that has W10 running.
 
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Chomiq said:
Windows boot manager is the one created during W10 installation, use it. It will be located on your M.2 drive. Unless you have any additional drives running windows installation you don't need to do a thing. After W10 install your primary boot device should be the one that has W10 running.
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And why is that if you pick the second variaton (SSD name without Windows Boot Manager) as primary boot device/option, the OS won't boot? I've read about such cases in other forums.
 
use uefi/gpt suport, ssd dont suport old boot mode i suppose
 
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