Windows 10: ASUS Maximus Hero VII Motherboard with M.2 installed not booting windows 10 after install

Hello,I have been trying to install windows 10 onto an m.2 SSD drive installed on a used ASUS Maximus Hero VII Motherboard.First, I followed this tutorial on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7PEBscJbno&ab_channel=OC3DRushKit. It has my exact setup the same BIOS version and motherboard. However - once I set the PCI express slot to "M.2 Mode," inserted the USB with windows installer on it, reset the pc to get through the install process with new BIOS settings, and got to the drive selection window, I encountered the following error:"Windows cannot be installed to this disk.

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Asus Z370 Maximus X Motherboards

9700K & 9900K have been added to Maximus X Hero's CPU support list as of today:

ROG MAXIMUS X HERO CPU Support | Motherboards | ASUS USA

 

Asus Z370 Maximus X Motherboards

My Asus Apex X has too, with the 1704 bios update of course....

 

ASUS Z370 ROG Maximus X Hero Motherboard - Drivers

Greetings Ten Forums / Community,

I own a ASUS Z370 ROG Maximus X Hero Motherboard and I plan to install Windows 10 64bit.

If we take a closer look at the following driver comparison list between the Intel and ASUS websites, we can see some discrepancies between the driver versions and the file size.


Windows 10 64bit Drivers

VGA Drivers:
- ASUS Website: Version: 26.20.100.7210, Date: 11/27/2019, Size: 377.37 MBytes
- Intel Website: Version: 26.20.100.7870, Date: 02/19/2020, Size: 340 MBytes

ROG MAXIMUS X HERO Driver & Tools | Motherboards | ASUS Australia
Download Intel(R) Graphics - Windows(R) 10 DCH Drivers


LAN Drivers (Intel LAN I219V):
- ASUS Website: Version: 12.18.9.7, Date: 07/08/2019, Size: 3.3 MBytes
- Intel Website: Version: 25.0 , Date: 01/23/2020, Size: 66.56 MBytes

ROG MAXIMUS X HERO Driver & Tools | Motherboards | ASUS Australia
Download Intel(R) Network Adapter Driver for Windows(R) 10


Chipset Driver (Intel Chipset INF Utility):
- ASUS Website: Version: 10.1.18019.8144, Date: 10/21/2019, Size: 5.36 MBytes
- Intel Website: Version: 10.1.18228.8176, Date: 11/28/2019, Size: 3.12 MBytes

ROG MAXIMUS X HERO Driver & Tools | Motherboards | ASUS Australia
Download Chipset INF Utility


SATA Driver (Intel Rapid Storage Technology RST):
- ASUS Website: Version: 17.5.0.1017, Date: 07/02/2019, Size: 26.88 MBytes
- Intel Website: Version: 17.8.0.1065, Date: 01/17/2020, Size: 22.52 MBytes

ROG MAXIMUS X HERO Driver & Tools | Motherboards | ASUS Australia
Download Intel(R) Rapid Storage Technology (Intel(R) RST) User Interface and Driver


My confusion arises from the Intel website stating that the drivers are "Generic Intel Drivers' and in the download description notes it states that some manufacturers "customize" the generic Intel driver to meet the needs of their system design. (Examples shown in the pictures below.)





















So my questions are:
(Q1) Which drivers can be downloaded from the Intel website without the risk of losing any features / customizations for my specific motherboard ? (ASUS Z370 ROG Maximus X Hero Motherboard)

(Q2) Which drivers should be strictly downloaded from the ASUS website ?

(Q3) How could I identify any drivers that have been "customized" on the ASUS website ?


Any help would be appreciated, Thanks in advance.