My Acer Helios Predator 300 doesn't show my new SSD as boot option on BIOS

yuwen

I just got my laptop yesterday and I wanted to switch out the original 250GB SSD with my Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB
The plan is to put in the new SSD, and use my bootable-USB to install a brand new Win10
When I went to BIOS, the new SSD is detected and the model name is displayed on the Information tab as HDD0; however, it does not appear on the Boot Priority Order under the Boot tab
I've created a supervisor password and tried to mess around with secure boot, SATA mode, didn't work for me, the new SSD still doesn't show up as boot option.
 I also looked for CSM settings but the BIOS doesn't have it.
The current system BIOS is version 1.19, it is the most up to date version, and my laotop model is ph315-51-78np
I suspect there may be a driver issue SSD or something but I have no way of verifying it; it's a brand new SSD I haven't done anything to it yet.
If there are anyone has done something similar or knows how to make it work please hele me!
Thanks!

xapim

yuwen said:

I just got my laptop yesterday and I wanted to switch out the original 250GB SSD with my Samsung 970 EVO NVMe M.2 SSD 1TB
The plan is to put in the new SSD, and use my bootable-USB to install a brand new Win10
When I went to BIOS, the new SSD is detected and the model name is displayed on the Information tab as HDD0; however, it does not appear on the Boot Priority Order under the Boot tab
I've created a supervisor password and tried to mess around with secure boot, SATA mode, didn't work for me, the new SSD still doesn't show up as boot option.
 I also looked for CSM settings but the BIOS doesn't have it.
The current system BIOS is version 1.19, it is the most up to date version, and my laotop model is ph315-51-78np
I suspect there may be a driver issue SSD or something but I have no way of verifying it; it's a brand new SSD I haven't done anything to it yet.
If there are anyone has done something similar or knows how to make it work please hele me!
Thanks!

That is normal for a brand new ssd/hdd it will never show up in the uefi it has to be formatted as GPT uefi will not recognize MBR partitions my advice get an m.2 to usb or sata adapter for you to be able to clone your original m.2 into the new nvme u have loads of software that do that my choice is always easeus partition master but u also have macrium reflect etc... you can also do it without the adapter but for that you have to format your secondary drive (hdd if you have it) clone you m.2 into the hdd then remove the m.2 insert the nvme and clone from the hdd into the nvme and format the hdd normally (this is the hardest way).

Ps: as you already have the bootable usb win10 install just format your nvme as GPT (this have to be done in another pc because you only have one m.2 slot, either with an m.2 slot or with adapter)

I still think you best option is to clone you current ssd with one of the options i mentioned and then if you still want to reset to the factory defaults you can do it from the nvme after it's cloned