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I want to install Windows 10 on a new SM951 SSD (NVMe). When booting from my install medium (Zalman VE300, USB-Drive-Emulator, Windows 10 x64 ISO) the setup does not show the drive in the list of available disks.
Starting a CMD (Shift+f10) and running diskpart list disk doesn't show the SSD aswell.
Is there a driver i need to reload for the setup to recognize the SSD, or how can i make the setup find the SSD?
My machine is a Asus ROG G572 with currently 3 installed drives
- 1TB HHD
- 256GB SSD (NVMe) (Stock OS drive)
- 512GB SSD (NVMe, SM951) (Should become my new OS drive)
Edit:
When booting from my current OS dirve, Windows does detect all 3 disks and all 3 are working properly. The problem occurs only in the windows setup.
Edit 2:
All 3 drives are visible in the BIOS (Both SSDs: Status: Non-RAID, Controller Type: NVMe, CtrlInterface: PCIe)
Using the drivers from http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/downloads/software/Samsung_NVMExpress_Driver_rev11.zip did not work (The setup did not find any signed drivers)
musium
Posted 2016-09-17T16:49:26.857
Reputation: 131
was HDD disconnected or disabled in BIOS during SSD install? – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 – 2016-09-17T17:35:40.597
@TonyStewart No all 3 devices (including the HDD) were connected and enabled... is this a problem? – musium – 2016-09-17T17:36:56.850
probably. I think so – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 – 2016-09-17T17:37:39.650
ok i diconnect it and try again.. – musium – 2016-09-17T17:38:09.110
could be some anti-cloning tricks by M$ – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 – 2016-09-17T17:41:10.950
I removed the HDD from the laptop ... but it SSD did still not show up in the setup – musium – 2016-09-17T18:22:54.540
load the NVME driver from Samsung during setup: http://www.samsung.com/semiconductor/minisite/ssd/downloads/software/Samsung_NVMExpress_Driver_rev11.zip (extract the Exe first and point to the folder wit the Inf + sys files)
– magicandre1981 – 2016-09-17T18:26:40.423I did not find any *.inf *.sys files in the extracted folder (i used 7z to extract) it ...in the setup, I searched for drivers in every folder, but the setup "did not find any signed drivers" – musium – 2016-09-17T18:40:28.997
1BIOS must enable SSD boot as boot path ( assumed done ) – Tony Stewart Sunnyskyguy EE75 – 2016-09-17T18:53:06.063
I had to change the sata mode from raid to ahci in the bios... now it works – musium – 2016-09-17T20:40:53.897
@musium ok, post your last comment as answer – magicandre1981 – 2016-09-18T07:05:37.453
I added the answer. Thanks all of you for your help! – musium – 2016-09-18T15:50:12.870