X370 Taichi boot from NVME not working

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   Hey everyone... New to the forum and to the Ryzen platform. Just finished a new build of a Ryzen 1700 on a Taichi x370 board, 16bg qualified GSkill ram 3200. I've got a 240gb SSD from my old machine that was my C drive. I've installed a new Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD on the Tiachi to use as my C drive. I cloned my original SSD to the EVO (I know, not recommended, but I wanted to see if it would work). Backup worked correctly and the clone looks good. I try to set the NVMe as the first boot drive, but when I do, the machine starts to boot for a few seconds, then restarts. It does this maybe 2 or 3 times, then boots up with the original SSD drive as the boot drive!?! 
How do I get the machine to recognize the NVMe drive as the system boot drive?

Thanks for your help!

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gcasper Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Location: San Jose, CA Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote gcasper Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: X370 Taichi boot from NVME not working Posted: 27 Jan 2018 at 9:40am
	Hey everyone... New to the forum and to the Ryzen platform. Just finished a new build of a Ryzen 1700 on a Taichi x370 board, 16bg qualified GSkill ram 3200. I've got a 240gb SSD from my old machine that was my C drive. I've installed a new Samsung 960 EVO NVMe SSD on the Tiachi to use as my C drive. I cloned my original SSD to the EVO (I know, not recommended, but I wanted to see if it would work). Backup worked correctly and the clone looks good. I try to set the NVMe as the first boot drive, but when I do, the machine starts to boot for a few seconds, then restarts. It does this maybe 2 or 3 times, then boots up with the original SSD drive as the boot drive!?! How do I get the machine to recognize the NVMe drive as the system boot drive? Thanks for your help!
	G. Casper

kerberos_20 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 06 Dec 2017 Location: czech republic Status: Offline Points: 3657	Post Options Post Reply Quote kerberos_20 Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jan 2018 at 2:43pm
	disconnect your old ssd use windows usb/cd to repair boot files if windows repair will tell if that it is inpossible to do, then either u will need to do it manually or reinstall windows

datonyb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 11 Apr 2017 Location: London U.K. Status: Offline Points: 3139	Post Options Post Reply Quote datonyb Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jan 2018 at 9:11pm
	did you use the included samsung clone software ? if so then this may point to the issue,,,,,, its quite frankly useless ! a quick google search reveals many other softwares to choose over it to be honest though the far better option is to just install a fresh install direct to the nvme you can use your old drive to then tranfer files over and still be able to use your old windows coa/account
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gcasper Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Location: San Jose, CA Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote gcasper Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 7:27am
	No, I use a product called Casper. It's an excellent backup/image/cloning program.
	G. Casper

Prodif Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 11 Apr 2017 Status: Offline Points: 79	Post Options Post Reply Quote Prodif Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 30 Jan 2018 at 12:15pm
	gcasper Execute clean installation, everything normally works, almost. Edited by Prodif - 30 Jan 2018 at 12:16pm
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MisterJ Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 19 Apr 2017 Status: Offline Points: 1097	Post Options Post Reply Quote MisterJ Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 31 Jan 2018 at 12:25am
	gcasper, it has been years since I used cloning SW (XP). Doesn't Casper set the environment to allow booting of the end result of the clone? I would think it would create the proper settings and take care of making sure the proper boot files are in the proper locations. Are you trying to do a legacy or UEFI boot? What is the state of CSM? All this suggest you should consider contacting Casper technical support. Perhaps Ryzen/TR support needs some attention. Enjoy, John.
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gcasper Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 27 Jan 2018 Location: San Jose, CA Status: Offline Points: 5	Post Options Post Reply Quote gcasper Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 02 Feb 2018 at 2:39am
	UPDATE: Disconnected my SSD, let the NVME boot once, now all is well. My system is booting from the NVME with no problems. Thanks everyone!
	G. Casper