Windows 10: When trying to install Windows 11 on a Samsung 980 pro SSD drive, i got this message: We...

Can't install Windows 11 on an SSD drive? It can't find the drive or partition.

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Windows 11 Installation Samsung SSD 980 NVMe

Hi,

I have recently bought new PC components but faced weird issue. I am already working on it for 2 days and read most threads online. None of the instructions helped. So I am coming up to you so maybe you could give some hints.

The issue: upon installation of Windows 11 downloaded from Microsoft and used their service (not rufus) for creating bootable usb the error message on the first step is that I am missing drivers. Although it is being said that these drives don’t have specific drivers from Samsung and are supposed to run on windows built-in drivers.

The interesting fact is also that drives are visible in BIOS and able to configure from “discpart” so I have already converted the to GPT, created partition and formatted with NTFS with no results.

I have also downloaded drivers from both Intel website and GIGABYTE for IRT and VMD but none were working.

PC SPEC:

• Intel i7 14700kf
  
• Gigabyte z790 ud 1.0
  
• Samsung SSD 980 NVMe M.2 SSD (slots: M2A, M2Q)
  
• BIOS VER: F10A
  

BIOS config:

• VMD - disabled
  
• CFG Lock - disabled
  
• CSM support - disabled
  
• Windows 10 Features - Other OS
  
• Secure Boot - Disabled
  

Please let me know if you need any more details.

Thank you in advance and best regards,

Filip

 

Mismatched drive labels in windows.

hi,

I have two drives:

Samsung 980 PRO 2TB - Where Windows 11 is installed

Samsung 980 PRO 1TB - There is nothing on this drive, not even partition table.

Everywhere in Windows 11 those disks are mislabeled.

Ex. Task manager shows label 'NVMe Samsung SSD 980 PRO 1TB' but all metrics are shown from 2TB drive. And metrics from 1TB drive are labeled as 'NVMe Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB'.

 

How do I get windows setup to see my SSD 980 pro? Which used to be from a ps5.

So my ssd m.2 shows up in BIOS as Samsung SSD 980 pro 1t (this was originally from a ps5) and when I try to install windows off a disk with a product key the SSD does not show up in the drives. I do not have any other drives to use so, How do I fix this?