Let's take a quick look at a step-by-step guide detailing how to turn an SSD into a boot drive for your new or existing computer.

How to Change the Boot Order To make the SSD your primary boot drive, you'll need to adjust your system's boot priority settings in the BIOS. Here's how: ...

Change BOOT_ORDER to BOOT_ORDER=0xf416. Add PCIE_PROBE=1 to the bottom of the file. Save with Ctrl + O. Exit with Ctrl + X. Before you assemble the NVMe Base, you'll need to flash Pi OS onto your SSD.

How to use an SSD with your Raspberry Pi 5 Installing an SSD using the Pimoroni NVMe base requires a bit of software preparation and then some pretty simple connecting and screwing in.

In most cases, a corrupt hard drive causes this issue. However, the wrong boot order can also be responsible for this problem. How to solve Disk Boot Failure, Insert System Disk error ...