trouble installing a Samsung NVME M.2 ssd on ASus g752

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I have installed the ssd on the pcie slot changed my bios to AHCI and installed the Samsung driver I can't install windows on it or see it under boot manager on my bios.... what I am missing or did wrong?
 
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You've got a new mobile pc and a new operating system so it should have been okay.

1. Go to the ASUS web site and check for BIOS updates. Sometime they improve ssd and NVMe compatability.

2. Go to the Intel web site and check for Intel chipset updates.

3. Do not use the Microsoft Windows NVME driver. Instead, go to the Samsung web site to download and install the latest version their NVMe driver. It works better than the Windows version.

4. Restart the pc and immediately access the motherboard's UEFI BIOS. Check to see if the 950 Pro is listed under primary boot drive selection.

5. If the ssd is not listed, then look for another section called "storage configuration" or something similar. For some odd reason the storage configuration is not listed together with the boot order. Check to see of the ssd is listed. If the ssd is listed check to see if it is enabled or disabled. Usually it is just a matter of selecting "enable". There might be a 3rd option to "force" enabling of the ssd. The option is used when several devices compete for a limited number of PCIe channels. For example it might reduce the number of PCIe 3.0 channels for graphics from 16 channels down to just 8 channels. It just depends on the components and configuration.

Those are the basics. Try them and let us know what happened.
 
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I have the latest bios and chipset driver and I'm using the samsung driver I checked the hard drive priority tab nothing there and nothing else appears on my bios for storage configuration just the tab where I can switch from raid to ahci
 
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ANy solution...I am having a similar problem with my ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme. In my case though the SSD is listed in the BOOT priority but windows does not boot from it. I have to manually select Windows Boot Manager to get into windows.
 
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ANy solution...I am having a similar problem with my ASUS Maximus VIII Extreme. In my case though the SSD is listed in the BOOT priority but windows does not boot from it. I have to manually select Windows Boot Manager to get into windows.
 
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I have tried doing this with windows 10. Windows 10 recognizes the drive, however the install fails to create a partition on the NVMe Drive. The installation fails at this point..
I have the latest BIOS installed and the latest Chipset. I however, haven't found a driver for NVMe M.2 Samsung 951.
Any Clues how to get past this?
 
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I just purchased the ASUS GL752VW-DH71 from amazon I had read the manual which said that it supported M.2 NVMe platform, and I also ordered the Samsung 950 Pro 256gb M.2 SSD. I took everyone's advice and ordered a screw seperately. Once I had everything together, I turned the laptop over to open the upgrade bay and I found, to my dismay, an applied sticker which says: "M.2 2280 SLOT SUPPORT SATA SSD ONLY". I was hoping that it had nothing to do with my 950 Pro, or, if it did, that it would be merely a BIOS update away from full support.
I installed the drive. I fit perfectly in the slot. I screwed it down and closed up the back. Nothing. I downloaded Intel's newest chipset driver, and Samsung's latest NVMe driver plus Samsung Magician software. I updated the BIOS from 201 to 203. Still nothing. It appears that my new ASUS powerful gaming laptop has no slot for PCIe and has no support for NVMe. Whether or not a future BIOS update will solve this problem, I have no clue
 
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I believe you need an NVMe drive for the 2 PCIe slots. I had to update my BIOS. The system recognizes the drive once the machine is booted off the drive sitting on the SATA III slot. My issue is that I cannot boot off the NVMe Drive.
I have tried setting the BIOS to AHCI (which is believe is a subset of RAID). This however make the system fail to recognize the SATA drive as a boot device.
When I start booting off the a CD and try to install Windows 10 (in the AHCI mode) on the NVMe that is where I get the error. The install recognizes the NVMe drive, however fails to create a partition when the installation starts.



 
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is your original drive still in the system? because my machine didnt like the fact that the same OS was in both the original HDD and the Samsung 950 Pro 256gb M.2 SSD. This seems to mess with the boot process.

Another issue that fooled me into believing my SSD drive didnt install and initialise correctly was that under hard disk management the SSD drive shows up as "OFF LINE" This seemed odd to me so i kept on changing it to online. and was part of the reason i spend so many wasted hours, booting repeatedly, tinkering unnecessarily with the bios and generally running the the migration software over and over. ON my last try when i followed the below mentioned procedure i chose to ignore this and it paid off.

my winning procedure is as follows;

install Samsung 950 Pro 256GB M.2 SSD
initialise drive...and partition ( i selected the MBT option instead of GPT )
Install samsungs migration software ( if your not doing a clean install )
Open the samsung migration software both drives will be listed ( source disk and tarket disk)
start Cloning OS
Exit after migration process is complete and shut down system
remove Original HDD drive that contains the original OS system
boot into bios set Samsung 950 Pro 256GB M.2 SSD drive as 1st boot device ( not even sure this is necessary) save and exit
system restarts perfectly.

the process of data migration took under ten minutes and the whole thing was done in under 15 minutes.



IT actually is that simple. what about the HDD drive you just removed ?
two options ;

1) keep the drive as a back up in case the SSD fails ( this is what im doing )
2) use a usb to sata cable and format the original HDD and reinstall it to increase system data storage.etc

In terms of the 2nch choice, i am still not sure whether the system would boot correctly if i had to re install the original
HDD with the OS and seeings as i wasted a whole 24 hours trying a whole bunch of stuff that didnt work i dont feel confident enough to
try it again even if there was a way i could do it.






 
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after a while Asus released a bios update, that solved the issue. make sure is set to ahci and that it shows under, rapid storage settings...
 
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