[SOLVED] Can't boot from newly installed M.2 drive. Windows installed but drive not recognised in BIOS.

[Jakobjump]

Hi!

I just received an Intel SSD 6 M.2 drive and ran into the problem of it not being recognised as a boot drive when trying to boot from it, post installing a fresh copy of Windows on my system. I have checked a number of other threads with the same issue and followed their steps, but without any success. My motherboard is ASUS Z97 Pro Gamer, running Windows 10.

I started by unplugging my HDD and disk drive (heard it could cause issues) and then disabling CSM, setting Secure boot option to "other OS", then cleared the secure boot keys. Following that, I installed Windows from a prepared USB drive successfully onto my M.2 drive, unplugged the USB and then rebooted. This is when the message "The current BIOS setting do not fully support the boot device." appeared.

Ignoring this for now I continued following the steps by changing secure boot option back to "Windows UEFI mode" and installing the default secure boot keys. Despite doing all this my drive is still not recognised within the bios. I have tried redoing all the steps a number of times now without any luck.

Feels like my head is about to explode :/
Anyone know a solution to this problem?

Thank you!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

BIOS current.

 

[USAFRet]

Z97 boards almost certainly need whatever the most recent BIOS update is to be able to boot form a m.2 NVMe drive.
Even then, some of them cannot.

 

[Jakobjump]

Thank you both for the quick replies, I'll try updating the bios and then get back to you!

 

[Calvin7]

Support for booting from NVMe storage was added in BIOS version 2103 and later.

Guide is found in this thread:

Can't boot from M.2 NVMe SSD

I had a Samsung 850 SSD (SATA) with Windows 10 on it. I bought Samsung 970 SSD (M.2). Turned off the computer, plugged it in, inserted a bootable USB stick with Windows 10 on it. Went directly to BIOS and changed boot priority to boot from the stick. Then, I installed Windows 10 on the new drive...

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[Jakobjump]

Thank you all, solved the issue