I discovered your site a few days ago, and, ....thank you thank you! The Duet-Refind software you suggested worked perfectly for booting to PCIe NVME in an old PC (a Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p). I used CrystalDisk Mark and found that the readings were almost 5 times more compared to a standard SSD. Just amazing. So glad I found this, and thanks again.
Hi Dave, thanks for your video. Unfortunately the link in which the DUET-REFIND was located is no longer working. Could you upload the files to a file sharing website maybe? Thanks again! Greetings from Chile, South America!
is it possible to just toss duet+refind on a SSD or HDD then put it in the system you want it in then install windows using refind to boot the installer?. I got an old laptop that doesn't have uefi in it and would really like to switch it over to GPT
I can't get Windows 10 to install at all. What I have to go through an nvme drive through the PCI port to be able to run Windows 10 on my p6t? (Not deluxe)
So, to be clear, you would have to have the DUET USB connected to the pc at all times, to boot from the NVMe OS? Do you have to select your operating system every time?
There’s a timer that counts down. The point of the video is: if you want to squeeze as much performance out of a 10 year old system, you can leverage DUET to boot to a m.2 NVME drive on a PCI-E controller. It might be PCI-E 2.0 4x speed but it’s faster than SATA2.
@@Davefinito I'll give it a go. I sold my highend pc for a profit and bought a X58 motherboard for next to nothing. I have my 2 TB NVMe just laying around from the last build, and I think it makes sense to buy the PCIE adaptor and use a small USB for this. SATA 2 really cuts down on my regular SSD's speed.
I used a 32 MB USB stick and it managed to get duet installed. But uppon booting, it shows BErrorart! Is it cause it's been formated to Fat32? Shall I try Clover?
Who’s Jon? 😂. If nothing can be read off the USB, you can wipe it by running diskpart in command prompt as administrator Type list disk and press enter Look at the disks capacity. If you have a 120 SSD and 8 GB USB stick, you should see disk 0 120 GB and disk 1 8GB or around 8000MB. Type in select disk 1 press enter Type in clean press enter Then Type in create partition primary press enter After that type format fs=ntfs quick press enter Type in assign press enter Type exit and press enter That’s it. Reformatted USB stick and it’s clean. Hope this helped!
@TheDaveStuff I have a very similar motherboard, the Asus P6T Deluxe V2. (with latest BIOS Version) For already three days I try installing Windows 10 (on an SSD), but whatever I try, the installation hangs on the blue Windows 10 logo on black background when trying to boot the installation medium. So I could not even enter the setup. I tried it with a DVD, USB Stick and even installed Windows 7 and tried to upgrade. I also tried different BIOS settings for the storage controller, IDE, RAID and AHCI and disabled all unneccessary hardware in the BIOS. (I heard that the Marvell network controller can cause troubles) When I tried to upgrade my Win7 installation, after reset, the following error message came up from the Win10 installer in Win7: 0xC1900101 0x20017 Translated: "Installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation" Do you have any idea or give me some hint, what could be wrong???
After a month of utter fail with Duet with rEFInd, and Pop OS with rEFInd, I am stuck in an Install Loop (video of where I am stuck is latest on my youtube). How on earth did you get past first reboot after initial install to NVME drive. This is where I am stuck using both methods, frustratingly so!!! Both methods should work as I have 2 videos listed in video description PFC who used Pop OS with rEFInd to install Win10 to NVME drive and Tundra Time with Duet with rEFInd to install only Win10 to NVME then removed the need for a USB by Formatting and partitioning the built in eMMC to house Duet with Refind and thus booting from original drive to Boot Manager Refind and then from rEFInd to NVME ( No USB Required). I have seen so many "Do This Videos" with no information of video of the full install process. Any information you may have would be helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi. I own similar main board, it Is gigabyte assassin g. 1 x58 lga 1366. Do You think it may support win 10 OS? Factory clearly state it Is Not OFFICIALLY compatible.
Hey man. So for you, Windows 10 2004 is the best performing Windows version, say, compared to 1809 and 1909 or even 1709? Is it just better? At some point we all are gonna have to install it anyway, but I just want to make sure if its even good. Thanks!
Hey. Yeah, Windows 10 2004 is performing at least equally or better than prior versions of Windows 10. I’m pretty confident this will be the go to version for a while.
Hey, yesterday’s video had info on reducing packet loss and high pings at the router level on the bufferbloat topic. It’s more important than any changes in Windows when it comes to online games
I’ll make a Windows video with some tweaks in the future. But understand, if your router can’t manage traffic well and has no smart queue management, Windows tweaks will not be effective or will be useless.
You could but duet doesn’t take a lot of space. It helps make the drive bootable. If you can’t boot from USB (really old motherboard), then sata/ssd might be the way to go
@@Davefinito Thank you! I have an MSI x58 Motherboard with a Xeon x5650. USB Boot is no problem but if there is another way I can save a USB port and it doesn't have to be a oversized USB stick in it all the time. Thanks again and have a Nice Day! 🙂
I have followed your instructions to install win10 on my NVME drive. But I have got a problem as "OS EFI NOT FOUND". I do not know what I should do to solve this problem. Please advise me. My desktop is Dell XPS 9100(Bios Legacy). X58 motherboard. And i have created DUET with refind and Win.10 booting usb with RUFUS(MBR)
Hi, Can I install duet on my ssd sata2 instead of USB? I dont want to keep usb in the back. I've tried to copy file from usb to ssd sata2 and set bios to boot from it. Its not working. looks like we need to install duet to ssd sata2 from it software but it does not appear the ssd sata2 to execute.
I discovered your site a few days ago, and, ....thank you thank you! The Duet-Refind software you suggested worked perfectly for booting to PCIe NVME in an old PC (a Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p). I used CrystalDisk Mark and found that the readings were almost 5 times more compared to a standard SSD. Just amazing. So glad I found this, and thanks again.
You are the MAN! Thank you so much for the valuable VIDEO. The steps work just as you shown.
Hi Dave, thanks for your video. Unfortunately the link in which the DUET-REFIND was located is no longer working. Could you upload the files to a file sharing website maybe? Thanks again! Greetings from Chile, South America!
is it possible to just toss duet+refind on a SSD or HDD then put it in the system you want it in then install windows using refind to boot the installer?. I got an old laptop that doesn't have uefi in it and would really like to switch it over to GPT
I can't get Windows 10 to install at all. What I have to go through an nvme drive through the PCI port to be able to run Windows 10 on my p6t? (Not deluxe)
Funciona com Windows 11?
Do you have to leave the USB permanently connected?
So, to be clear, you would have to have the DUET USB connected to the pc at all times, to boot from the NVMe OS? Do you have to select your operating system every time?
There’s a timer that counts down. The point of the video is: if you want to squeeze as much performance out of a 10 year old system, you can leverage DUET to boot to a m.2 NVME drive on a PCI-E controller. It might be PCI-E 2.0 4x speed but it’s faster than SATA2.
@@Davefinito I'll give it a go. I sold my highend pc for a profit and bought a X58 motherboard for next to nothing. I have my 2 TB NVMe just laying around from the last build, and I think it makes sense to buy the PCIE adaptor and use a small USB for this. SATA 2 really cuts down on my regular SSD's speed.
👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽 And what if I already have Windows 10 installed on the NVMe SSD? Could I skip the whole installation part and load directly from DUET via USB?
Many many thanks. It works really great. Don’t forget to load nvme drivers before use.
I used a 32 MB USB stick and it managed to get duet installed. But uppon booting, it shows BErrorart! Is it cause it's been formated to Fat32? Shall I try Clover?
hey jon. I forgot to ask you what was the application for fixing my usb stick.
Who’s Jon? 😂. If nothing can be read off the USB, you can wipe it by running diskpart in command prompt as administrator
Type list disk and press enter
Look at the disks capacity. If you have a 120 SSD and 8 GB USB stick, you should see disk 0 120 GB and disk 1 8GB or around 8000MB.
Type in select disk 1 press enter
Type in clean press enter
Then Type in create partition primary press enter
After that type format fs=ntfs quick press enter
Type in assign press enter
Type exit and press enter
That’s it. Reformatted USB stick and it’s clean.
Hope this helped!
@TheDaveStuff I have a very similar motherboard, the Asus P6T Deluxe V2. (with latest BIOS Version) For already three days I try installing Windows 10 (on an SSD), but whatever I try, the installation hangs on the blue Windows 10 logo on black background when trying to boot the installation medium. So I could not even enter the setup.
I tried it with a DVD, USB Stick and even installed Windows 7 and tried to upgrade.
I also tried different BIOS settings for the storage controller, IDE, RAID and AHCI and disabled all unneccessary hardware in the BIOS. (I heard that the Marvell network controller can cause troubles)
When I tried to upgrade my Win7 installation, after reset, the following error message came up from the Win10 installer in Win7:
0xC1900101 0x20017
Translated: "Installation failed in the SAFE_OS phase with an error during BOOT operation"
Do you have any idea or give me some hint, what could be wrong???
After a month of utter fail with Duet with rEFInd, and Pop OS with rEFInd, I am stuck in an Install Loop (video of where I am stuck is latest on my youtube). How on earth did you get past first reboot after initial install to NVME drive. This is where I am stuck using both methods, frustratingly so!!! Both methods should work as I have 2 videos listed in video description PFC who used Pop OS with rEFInd to install Win10 to NVME drive and Tundra Time with Duet with rEFInd to install only Win10 to NVME then removed the need for a USB by Formatting and partitioning the built in eMMC to house Duet with Refind and thus booting from original drive to Boot Manager Refind and then from rEFInd to NVME ( No USB Required). I have seen so many "Do This Videos" with no information of video of the full install process. Any information you may have would be helpful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you run newer gpu on that system?
Hi. I own similar main board, it Is gigabyte assassin g. 1 x58 lga 1366. Do You think it may support win 10 OS? Factory clearly state it Is Not OFFICIALLY compatible.
Windows 10 may run with windows drivers. Only way to know for sure is testing it out.
Hey man. So for you, Windows 10 2004 is the best performing Windows version, say, compared to 1809 and 1909 or even 1709? Is it just better? At some point we all are gonna have to install it anyway, but I just want to make sure if its even good. Thanks!
Hey. Yeah, Windows 10 2004 is performing at least equally or better than prior versions of Windows 10. I’m pretty confident this will be the go to version for a while.
@@Davefinito can you show us graphs and numbers that say that, cause I don't expect Microsoft to remove the crap always running on the background.
Can you make a video for reducing packet loss or high ping issue?
Hey, yesterday’s video had info on reducing packet loss and high pings at the router level on the bufferbloat topic. It’s more important than any changes in Windows when it comes to online games
I’ll make a Windows video with some tweaks in the future. But understand, if your router can’t manage traffic well and has no smart queue management, Windows tweaks will not be effective or will be useless.
Thanks for this Tutorial! What do you think, instead an USB drive use a small partition on an sata ssd for duet and refind?
You could but duet doesn’t take a lot of space. It helps make the drive bootable. If you can’t boot from USB (really old motherboard), then sata/ssd might be the way to go
@@Davefinito Thank you! I have an MSI x58 Motherboard with a Xeon x5650. USB Boot is no problem but if there is another way I can save a USB port and it doesn't have to be a oversized USB stick in it all the time. Thanks again and have a Nice Day! 🙂
I have followed your instructions to install win10 on my NVME drive. But I have got a problem as "OS EFI NOT FOUND". I do not know what I should do to solve this problem. Please advise me. My desktop is Dell XPS 9100(Bios Legacy). X58 motherboard. And i have created DUET with refind and Win.10 booting usb with RUFUS(MBR)
You need to make sure the ssd is setup as gpt and not mbr.
Did you ever have an old PC that was OP and wanted to add more life into it but couldn't?
win-raid is down =(
Not really practical, its just easier/cheaper to buy a SATA3 SSD, the performance increase on M.2 will be to small on this systems.
The x58 chipset is sata2 or 300mb/sec. uplift to 1700mb/sec plus IOPs can be significant
@@Davefinito That's sequential, and considering best case scenario, in practice it will be close to 3 times the performance.
Excelente tus videos sigue asi bro
Thank you man!🙂
He has a core i7 laptop that is so old??????
Heisenberg this is not your profession
😂
Hi, Can I install duet on my ssd sata2 instead of USB? I dont want to keep usb in the back. I've tried to copy file from usb to ssd sata2 and set bios to boot from it. Its not working. looks like we need to install duet to ssd sata2 from it software but it does not appear the ssd sata2 to execute.
As far as I’m aware, duet was designed to only boot from USB.