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Originally Posted by Fish
Just looked at the mobo specs. It has 3 NVMe slots. So you can install 2 more NVMe drives if you wanted to.
Installing Windows from USB is a piece of cake. Microsoft has a tool that automates the entire process, you just need a machine already running Windows and a USB flash drive with 8GB+ capacity to create an installer. Go here and download the tool for "Create Windows 10 installation media." Run that. Plug in your USB drive. It will download the Win10 image to the drive and make it bootable. You will need your Windows key to input during the install process or afterward if you want, Windows doesn't really care.
On the new PC, you have to configure your BIOS to allow booting from USB. Make sure Secure Boot is not enabled. Boot the machine tapping the F12 key to select your boot source, and select the USB drive. Follow instructions for installing Windows. You'll have to format your new NVMe drive during the Windows install process. That's straightforward and they walk you through it, you just select the drive you're wanting Windows installed on, and do a quick format. FYI, it will normally create 3 partitions during setup, a recovery partition, a system partition, and a data partition. The recovery and system partitions are very small, the normal data partition where you want to install Win10 will be obvious by the size. |
Wow man, thanks again for all of the details! This is fantastic news about the drives, so I'll definitely order at least one more of the NVMe drives that you suggested earlier. That transfer rate is insane so I just can't imagine having any issue streaming huge projects from a drive at 2,000 MB per second!
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Originally Posted by Pants
Just make sure you're not slotting anything into a shared SATA/M.2 lane.
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Thanks! I'll be sure to carefully read the motherboard manual so that I don't set in the wrong slot.