Question Having problem installing windows on new NVME drive

jacksyee

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Hi,

I have a problem I cannot understand. Perhaps I should have put this in storage but I’ll try it here. I am doing a new build and reusing some old parts. I have completed the build and installing Win 11 Home.

I have an Asus Dark Hero Z790 board with 5 NME slots. I installed drives in each slot

1) Corsair MP700 1TB in M.1 (5.0) (New)
2) Sabrent RocketQ 2TB (old)
3) Samsung 990 Pro 4 TB M.2 (New)
4) Samsung 980 Pro 1TB (old)
5) Samsung 960 Pro 1TB (old)

None of these drives have anything I care about on them. (4) and (5) had OS on them - the 980 was my old system disk, the 960 was a backup drive

I boot and post. Change the boot order to my Kingston install thumb drive.

Reboot and select disk 0 (the corsair) that was blank (never used)

It installs to 78 percent and then says “cannot complete win 11 install” - restart and it does the same thing but it had particned that drive to 100GB for system

After trying several things I manage to get a system on the 960 pro - but every time i reboot I must reinstall windows on the 960 Pro (I have done this 2x so I should say twice in a row)

I want system on the corsair and I want the others to be data drives that can be erased.

What should I do - I imagine I need to remove all the drives but the corsair and give it a go but wanted to see what you think because that would require draining my loop to remove the cover I think.

I have never had a probolem installing windows before - If I have done something silly please let me know.
 
Physically remove ALL drives except what you want Windows on.

Then, this:
 
Physically remove ALL drives except what you want Windows on.

Then, this:

Thanks I was worried about that will try