Hi so I got a new M.2 NVME SSD (Kingston fury renegade 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVME M.2) in the spring and installed it into my pc and used it as a secondary storage and for games, no problem here whatsoever that worked fine. But now I decided to reinstall windows to get a fresh start and I wanted to install onto the m2 drive. But I have not been successful to get windows to boot from it, here is a list on all the things I have done that I found searching online. My mother board is an ASUS PRIME X370-PRO it has one M.2 slot.
Thanks in advance.
- I have updated BIOS to the latest version
- Disconnected all other HDDs and SSDs when installing Windows
- Formatted the M.2 SSD
- Removed the USB while the computer is restarting when installing windows, but then it goes straight to the BIOS
- Changed the boot order in BIOS
- I found one post on reddit with a similar problem where the guy did a “Secure Erase” via ASUS BIOS but I could not find that option in my BIOS
- Tried this that I found on Toms hardware forum (but it did not work) :
Compatibility Support Mode - set to [DISABLED]
Secure Boot
1- The M.2 drive has to be the only drive installed.
2 - Go into the BIOS, under the boot tab there is an option for CSM, make sure it is disabled.
3 - Click on secure boot option below and make sure it is set to other OS, not Windows UEFI.
4 - Click on key management and clear secure boot keys.
5 - Insert a USB memory stick with a UEFI bootable iso of Windows 10 on it, USB3 is quicker but USB2 works also. A Windows DVD won’t work unless you’ve created your own UEFI Bootable DVD.
6 - Press F10 to save, exit and reboot.
7 - Windows 10 will now start installing to your NVME drive as it has its own NVME driver built in.
8 - When the PC reboots hit F2 to go back into the BIOS, you will see under boot priority that Windows boot manager now lists your NVME drive.
9 - Click on secure boot again but now set it to WIndows UEFI mode. (see #3 above)
10 - Click on key management and install default secure boot keys
11 - Press F10 to save and exit and Windows will finish the install. Once you have Windows up and running, shutdown the PC and reconnect your other SATA drives
- When disabling the CSM in BIOS the motherboard no longer recognises the SSD
- I also tried using command prompt when installing windows to clean it and create partitions but still the same problem remains.
- What I found is that when I try to populate the volumes, I get an error message that says “Volume information for this disk cannot be found”
Thanks in advance.
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