Windows 10: Question about booting from NVMe drive

Discus and support Question about booting from NVMe drive in Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware to solve the problem; I have a brand new Ryzen 2700X system with an X470 motherboard and I bought my first NVMe drive to go with it. My plan is to use it as my boot drive,... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Drivers and Hardware' started by Gurn Blanston, Nov 16, 2019.

  1. GURN BLANSTON
    Gurn Blanston Win User

    Question about booting from NVMe drive


    I have a brand new Ryzen 2700X system with an X470 motherboard and I bought my first NVMe drive to go with it. My plan is to use it as my boot drive, and I am cloning my current boot drive to it.

    My question is do I need to do anything specific to get the NVMe drive to boot? The motherboard manual suggests that I might have to use RAID settings, but I don't plan to use the drives in a RAID configuration. I am thus slightly confused.

    Would anyone be able to shed any light on this?

    :)
     
    Gurn Blanston, Nov 16, 2019
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  2. WOJCIECHCE
    WojciechCe Win User

    Windows 10 installer don't detect NVMe drive

    I have 2 drives:

    • disk1 (SATA SSD, with Ubuntu 16.04)
      • partition1 (sda1: flag /boot)
      • partition2 (sda2: flag /home, encrypted by LUKS)
    • disk2 (NVMe SSD)

    So, the goal is to install Windows 10 on disk2 and boot it from GRUB (which is on sda1).

    What is the problem ?

    In disk-choose step, disk2 is missing. However Ubuntu 14.04 installer "see" this disk, so I assume that is software issue, rather than my hardware.

    What I tried to solve this problem ?

    • loaded Samsung NVMe drivers from this thread
    • patched Windows image using DISM tool by adding 2 updates. I followed this guide
    • tried to run Windows 10 installed on USB stick to install it

    All of them failed.

    Please help me to solve this issue.
     
    WojciechCe, Nov 16, 2019
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  3. SUSHEELPALKAMSETTI
    SusheelPalkamsetti Win User
    Installing new NvMe drive and using it as primary boot runnig windows 10

    Hello,

    I have a preinstalled windows 10 along with 30+ apps(both from manufacturer and third party) running on my desktop. I recently bought the Samsung 960 evo NvMe drive and would like to use it as my new boot drive. I know that I have to create a bootable usb
    drive, disconnect all other SSD/HDD, leave only the NvMe drive, install windows on it and then reconnect all the drives back.

    I would like to understand how I could create an ISO image of my preinstalled windows 10(along with all the updates, hardware drivers and apps) and make a bootable USB out of it. Is it possible? if so, could anyone list the steps needed or point me to a
    thread or post online? Thank you.
     
    SusheelPalkamsetti, Nov 16, 2019
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  4. MIKEISMIKE
    MikeIsMike Win User

    Question about booting from NVMe drive

    Windows refuses to install on NVME SSD (Samsung 960 EVO)

    First, thanks everyone who copy-pasted the first relevant results they found in Google. I found those before I asked the question.

    The solution that I got to work is as follows:

    • Disable CSM / UEFI
    • Enable Secure Boot
    • Now the installer can access the NVME SSD
      • Format the drive
      • Restart the machine

    • Enable CSM / UEFI

    • Disable Secure Boot

    • Proceed to installer and now Windows will allow you to install to the NVME SSD drive
     
    MikeIsMike, Nov 16, 2019
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