Windows 10: My new M.2 NVMe SSD is not recognized as UEFI Hard Disk after installing Windows 10

Hello everyone,


I have recently bought a new M.2 NVMe SSD to install Windows 10 on, but after installing Windows from a USB created with the Windows Media Creation Tool I have also tried with Rufus, the NVMe SSD is not recognized as a UEFI Hard Disk resulting in Windows being unable to finish the installation.

• I have updated the BIOS to the latest version that is not a beta
• I have disabled CSM and Secure Boot
• I am booting the UEFI OS USB Hard Disk
• I have disconnected all other hard disks and devices
• I have been performing a clean install following Greg's guide so many times with small variations...
  • Everything works fine until the installation is complete and the system needs to restart. This is where the Windows installation starts all over again. And yes, I have tried to remove the USB right before the system restarts. This will result in booting directly into the BIOS.
  • I have looked up the NVMe SSD in the boot order in the BIOS, but it is not there. It is however visible in legacy mode if CSM is enabled.
  • When booting Windows on my SATA SSD, I can see the NVMe drive having an EFI partition and also windows files on it.
  
  
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  I have also tried to clone Windows 10 from another hard disk, but unsuccessfully as my other hard disks have sector sizes of 512 and my NVMe SSD has a sector size of 4096.
  
  
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  I have tried to install Windows using a Recovery Drive, but the installation will freeze at 30% and result in an error explaining how windows was unable to install the recovery and no changes have been made.
  
  
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  The Troubleshooting tool has also been tested without any luck.
  

Some information:


Motherboard: MSI B450 Gaming Pro Carbon AC

BIOS: MSI Click Bios version: 7B85v1C

SSD: WD Black SN750 NVMe SSD



The drive can be formatted and used to store files just fine, but I would really like to boot from it. I am running out of ideas though.


Any help or feedback would be much appreciated!



Best regards,

Christian

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