hello everyone and welcome back again
for another video
what we're going to do today is i'm
going to show you how to boot
a nvme m.2 drive onto a legacy
motherboard
the board i'm using today is this asus
uh
p6t deluxe version two i don't know if
we can see if that's what that is maybe
it's if i hold my flashlight in here you
can see this
um
no i don't see it written on there
anywhere my fingers in the damn way but
anyways uh
so
what i have in here is this little thing
right here and what this does is it
holds an nvme drive and a sata drive and
it plugs into
one of the uh pci express uh 8x slots
uh normally it'll actually go into a 4x
slot but i have it plugged into the 8x
slot
now the sata on it
uses a cable like this regular sata
cable that plugs into the
sata port right here
and what it does is it goes into here
which it's got a little adapter on it
and that will read the sata drive and
then of course the nvme is gonna
transfer in through the uh
excuse me usb
port or excuse me pci express port in
the back now let's do a quick boot here
uh on the screen uh but before i do that
i want to show you something in the back
i have no usb's plugged in there you
don't see nothing
i have no usb plugged in on the front
there either so
i'm not booting with a usb stick like
some people will do i'm actually booting
with a sata uh let's take a look at this
here on the screen now this will take a
bit because it's an x58 so of course you
know those take a little bit longer to
boot up and get going but uh here let me
turn off my light here so it's not
glaring
and let's have a look here
you
and there you have it
so uh let's go to the screen here and
let me uh show you how that works
so before i go to the screen um i want
to show you this little gadget real
quick
what this is
is a
m.2 sata
to
usb 3 converter
it normally had a casing but i took the
casing off because i don't use it i just
use this for general purpose stuff
um the sata that we're going to be using
here in this example
is one of those 22 42
little half size ones that'll fit like
right in there
and uh that's what we're going to use to
boot um
do i have an
extra one up here in my
pile of
i'm not seeing one but uh
yeah that's what we're going to use is a
2242 uh
sata m.2
uh
you can get those real cheap i the the
one i got i actually took from uh
a uh chromebook that i converted
a while back
and uh
it was a 16 gig uh
sata thing inside the chromebook and i
pulled that out and put 128 gig in there
and i didn't really have any use for it
but then uh
for this project i actually uh found a
use for i was like oh yeah i could
use the 16 gigs that's all i need but uh
all right let's let's go ahead and go to
the screen then and talk about this
okay to start out with the software i'm
using
is called duet
and i also have another app in there
it's called refined
um you can get that at thewinraid.com
website here i will leave a link in the
description of this video
but uh there's there's all kinds of uh
instructions down here and how to make
this now what this does
is it makes a little usb drive
and on the usb drive
uh
that's actually where your boot loader
is going to be
now what i did is i took that a step
further
i took the usb drive and i cloned it
onto that
little 16 gig
sata drive
let's go over here to uh
amazon here so you can have a look at
the drive that i'm using inside the
computer that i showed you earlier
um on the
inside here this one right here this
green one this would be the where the
sata would go
and so of course i've got that half size
card right in here
that's actually our boot drive and then
right here is the nvme drive itself
so you just basically hook these two
drives in but before you hook this one
in
you put it into that little uh sata the
mdot or uh sata m.2 to uh
usb converter that i showed you
and so what you do
is
you run a program there's probably other
programs that'll work for this too
i like to use mini tool partition wizard
um
you're gonna run it as administrator
and what you're gonna do
let's let this boot up here you're going
to find two different drives down there
one these are actually my main drives
here i don't have them plugged in but
i'm going to kind of explain it to you
hopefully you'll get the gist of this
you're going to have two drives there
one's going to be the drive that you
formatted with the uh
with the uh
duet software
and the other one is going to be a the
blank uh sata m.2 and basically all
you're gonna do is you're gonna
highlight the drive in uh mini tool
partition wizard and then click the
copy disk wizard
that's it and then
it's going to ask you we're going to
click next here
it's going to ask you to which disk you
want to copy we're going to go disk one
and then click next and then it's going
to ask you where you want to copy it to
you're going to go to disk 2.
uh you're just basically going to look
for the sata m.2 driver i'm not going to
click here because that'll screw up my
computer so i can't show you this
live but that's what you're going to do
is you're going to clone that usb boot
drive onto the sata uh 16 gig sata drive
just that simple
and then you go ahead and
place that sata drive
back into here
into the uh
this slot
and uh have your nvme here
and then uh go ahead and boot the
computer
and
it should boot if you have the bios set
to
boot from the sata drive it should boot
uh on the legacy bios
and show you a clover screen that will
let you install windows now once you get
to that boot screen
it's just a matter of uh popping your
windows 10
uh usb stick in and then just doing your
install
and uh
there you have it so
let me go to the other screen here and
show you what kind of speeds we're
getting now right here if you look on
amazon
uh this is showing like a read uh you
know 3566 2377 you know typical m.2
uh the m.2 i'm using is actually kind of
a cheapie
um
i picked it up uh
i think off the walmart website or
something it was like the cheapest m.2 i
could find and the only reason i spent
the money on something so cheap
is because i was experimenting and i
wanted to see if it worked actually
on this x58 and it did
so uh yeah so i'm
sharing that experience with you but uh
let me uh
stop here and uh we'll go to the other
screen here and and take a look and see
what crystal mark showed
all right back to this screen um looking
at the crystal uh crystal disk mark uh
image here that uh i took a
shot of you can see it's transferring at
sixteen hundred uh on the reed
max um
that's good prob about half of what that
uh it was showing on the advertisement
there on amazon and
um i i think a lot of it might have to
do
with this being an older bios and the
transfer speed uh i might not have this
in the correct 4x slot i'm not sure this
this is board has got like four
different 4x slots
um i was thinking of moving it around
see if that makes a difference in the
transfer rate but uh
still all in all 600 on the transfer
uh is a hell of a lot better than what a
uh
ssd would do you know so there's
obviously some improvement there and
like i said i got some tweaking to do
here uh just just to show you this we'll
go to task manager so you can see this
uh under performance
so that uh the cpu is in fact an x5675
uh we're running eight gigs of memory in
here let's uh let's see if we do
something here we can show you give you
a little bit more information
excuse me
we'll go to uh system information here
uh see what this tells us
xeon x5675
uh
now the bios mode you'll notice that it
says that it's uefi
now uh normally that would say legacy on
an x58
but since we're using that uh little
boot trick there it uh it actually shows
up as a uefi bios
so that that's pretty neat um other
things that i've done
let's see if we can see it down in the
corner here
you see a usb or not usb but a bluetooth
icon there so yeah i got bluetooth on
this x58
and of course i got wi-fi going on there
so uh yeah i've kind of modernized this
board quite a bit and you can of course
see like the rgb is synchronized in
there with the uh
with the uh
the uh cpu cooler and the memory and the
uh
rgb on the uh sata controller down there
so uh yeah that's actually pretty cool
that i could do this with an x58 um this
this uh
case here is actually for another
uh video that i'm doing here it's
actually part of the previous video i
did there where i was talking about that
diy pc uh
35 case well this was the build
and i figured since i i kind of did
something kind of obscure with this
uh that i'd make a separate video on
this uh in itself doing the x58 and
legacy bios
i was originally going to put
mac os on here
and uh
linux 2 and maybe do a triple boot but
that's actually kind of a pain in the
ass on an x58 you can do it i know
people have ran it on this board
according to the message boards but uh
yeah i thought in essence this is just
an experiment and i kind of want to get
this one done and moving on to something
else
uh i figured you know just a simple
basic windows install here on the nvme
would be sufficient enough and uh i
think a lot of people would get a kick
out of this but
all right that's gonna be it for this
video guys
um hopefully later in the week here i'll
finish up the video on this case so i
can talk about this uh
case build a little bit more uh this one
turned out actually better than what i
expected but uh i'll talk to you guys
later uh i'll see you in the next video
and bye