Samsung 860 EVO + ASUS p8z77-v pro

[blake.rules]

Bought a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb and cant get it to boot from my ASUS P8Z77-V Pro.

"This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disks controller is enabled in the computers bios menu" - windows setup failure dialogue

 

[USAFRet]

Bought a Samsung 860 EVO 500gb and cant get it to boot from my ASUS P8Z77-V Pro.

"This computers hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disks controller is enabled in the computers bios menu" - windows setup failure dialogue

A 2.5" or m.2 drive?

 

[blake.rules]

It's a 2.5" drive.

 

[USAFRet]

It's a 2.5" drive.

There should be zero issue booting from that drive.
Standard SATA III in a standard SATA III motherboard port. I can't visualize why it would not work.

 

[blake.rules]

Neither can I. New sata cable and same power line as my optical drive, plugged into a 6gbs Intel data port (a gray one specifically). Sata mode on bios is AHCI. No change when I flipped it over to IDE.

 

[USAFRet]

Neither can I. New sata cable and same power line as my optical drive, plugged into a 6gbs Intel data port (a gray one specifically). Sata mode on bios is AHCI. No change when I flipped it over to IDE.

So whats the whole chain of events, from plugging the SATA cable in...

 

[blake.rules]

Installing a fresh windows 8.1 onto the drive. No other hdd's or storage plugged in. But fails on custom windows setup -> where do you want to install windows. Windows cannot be installed to the disk (error message in original post) and no amount of fiddling around in the bios seems to change that. Tried different SATA ports. Tried a different cable. No change so far.

 

[USAFRet]

Installing a fresh windows 8.1 onto the drive. No other hdd's or storage plugged in. But fails on custom windows setup -> where do you want to install windows. Windows cannot be installed to the disk (error message in original post) and no amount of fiddling around in the bios seems to change that. Tried different SATA ports. Tried a different cable. No change so far.

During the "Custom", is there a list of existing partitions on it?
If so, delete anything already existing.

 

[blake.rules]

Yep. The ssd is listed as drive 1 partition 1.
Deleted it, formatted it.
Still the same error message.
Listed as only 464GB though. But I'm assuming that's normal.

 

[blake.rules]

Ok. I can see the device in boot menu, disk manager and windows explorer. but cannot see it in Samsung magician. may the drive be faulty? I cannot seem to find anywhere to update the firmware for this particular drive

 

[USAFRet]

Ok. I can see the device in boot menu, disk manager and windows explorer. but cannot see it in Samsung magician. may the drive be faulty? I cannot seem to find anywhere to update the firmware for this particular drive

You need to upgrade your Samsung Magician.
I just did mine, and it now reads my 860 EVO properly.

v5.0

v5.2

 

[blake.rules]

Yep. On version 5.2.1 and it still cant find it. https://imgur.com/a/jV0DLbH