Windows 10: Unable to install Windows 10 on NVMe drive on B550 MB

I have had no problem in the past installing Windows 10 on SATA drive, but I am failing now to install it on a 500GB WD-Black SN750 NVMe drive installed on a Gigabyte B550 Aurus Master.In the MB BIOS, I disabled all the boot drive options other than WDS500G3XHC-00SJG0 (which, I assume, is the NVMe drive).

Other settings were:
Fast boot Disabled
CSDM Support Enabled
Storage Boot Option Control UEFI only

I then booted a USB drive containing the Windows 10 Installation software, and input the activation code. The NVMe drive was recognised by the installation software, which I then used to create a partition. I then waited while the software appeared to be installing Windows 10 on the partition. But when the PC rebooted, it booted back into Windows 10 Installation USB drive, beginning the installation process again from the start.

I removed the USB drive and tried to reboot, but no drive was found.

I tried repeating the installation process, deleting the partition created by the first installation attempt and creating a new partition, and the same thing happened.

I tried going through the installation process again, but instead of deleting the partition created by the previous installation attempt, asking the installation software to use the partition created in the previous attempt, but it said that it could not use that partition.

I tried performing a Start-up Repair instead of a fresh installation, but it was unable to do this.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

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Windows 10 installer don't detect NVMe drive

Thanks. This helped but only partly.

NVMe disk is now listed in choose-disk step but installer says that its unable to install WIndows on this disk because it has MBR partition. Windows can only be installed on GPT disks in EFI systems.

What should i do now ?

 

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.

 

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.