Windows 10 installation on Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Disaster part 2

[nebelwerferx]

Good evening everyone

As usually, I spent whole saturday evening trying to install windows 10 on Samsung SM951 128GB M.2 PCIe NVMe, unfortunately with no success. Another installation with Windows 7 has done bsod completely.
I followed every step given me by Hlsgsz (he was very helpful) on this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/id-3196467/windows-installation-samsung-sm951-128gb-pcie-nvme.html

Windows still installs fine but after restart there's no boot, and there's no clear option for "CSM" on my motherboard. I'll try to upload some pictures, although I think I'll have contact MSI. If I knew that would be so hard I would have bought Asus but....., but I'm not giving up yet...but I cannot see end of it.



Any thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

 

[n0ns3ns3]

well ...
here is what i'd do.
install windows on other HDD/SSD. boot it.
if it works, shutdown PC, connect the SM951 and boot again. check that drive is working. delete the GPT/MBR from SM951.
use this SW to clone the OS from whatever you installed to the SM951.
shut down, leave only the SM951 attached and boot the system.

 

[nebelwerferx]

yes, I'm going to install windows on another ssd, and try that tomorrow but I dont know if it would be working or not. Trouble lies there...
I specially upload some pictures my bios, I think even good pc technician would have trouble with configuration:

http://s1383.photobucket.com/user/nebelwerferx/media/MSI_SnapShot_06_zpsvqqqakht.png.html?sort=3&o=1
http://s1383.photobucket.com/user/nebelwerferx/media/MSI_SnapShot_07_zpsds3e0qi9.png.html?sort=3&o=0

 

[n0ns3ns3]

why would you use secure boot ?
disable that crap.

 

[nebelwerferx]

to disable or enable secure boot I have to enable or disable this:

http://s1383.photobucket.com/user/nebelwerferx/media/MSI_SnapShot_00_zpsvhhsoxx8.png.html?sort=3&o=7

and there's no change whatever I do disable or enable windows installs fine and when it comes to reboot it stops, or starts again booting from usb ofc, and if I pull usb out its basically trying to boot and freezes.

 

[nebelwerferx]

I also followed this video, even although I cannot find "csm" on my motherboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No-ct8pQcIg

 

[n0ns3ns3]

have you tried to reset the bios to defaults ?
CSM is not supposed to play a role with NVMe drives boot.
What i think that might be a problem is the drivers.
that's why i suggested to install on other disk and than to add this SM951. that way windows will have the most updated drivers for this drive.
Later when you clone the OS to SM951, the driver will be updated.

 

[nebelwerferx]

I tried everything, even right now I'm downloading windows 8 to try another os.
Option with cloning is tempting, and probably good one. Should I use Samsung Data Migration or something else? Never done it before always everything worked well right now nothing. I'm pretty mad...I'm sorry.

 

[nebelwerferx]

Tomorrow I'm going to make usb image with drivers included into windows. I dont think there's a trouble with Intel Rapid Storage driver, can be trouble with driver for NVMe, but drive is being recognized in Windows Boot Manager so its ok, I couldn't install Samsung's driver during the install because there's no signature.....headache!!!

 

[n0ns3ns3]

my bad, was sure i linked it (was going to) in the first post.
that's what i use for windows systems.
http://www.easeus.com/todo-backup-guide/disk-clone-guide.html
it does it from windows and resizes partitions as needed

 

[nebelwerferx]

alright so if I'll install windows 7 in uefi on ssd in gpt partition, will that clone ssd and convert NVMe as a gpt partition or will it be mbr?

 

[n0ns3ns3]

if you chose clone, it creates everything from scratch on new disk. only partitions size might differ

 

[nebelwerferx]

Thanks mate for your interest
I've contacted MSI and they couldn't provide any information lol
but I've managed to install windows 10 on one of my ssds and it works ok.
I've run Prime and IPDT and verything's ok, but its not like win7 though., what's worse I have had this legit key for win10 at least for one year and activation failed, so I spent another one hour to call Microsoft where I been send to one guy and another one, finally i had to explain to the guy named Sanjir that key was legit and I dont know whats going on, but he was pretty tough saying that key has been blocked because they think its oem and not legit so I explained eagain and again but Sanjir was very tough and I just finished the conversation.. Useless support from Microsoft 🙁
With treatment like that no strange that people are going back to win7 and I'm going to install it on saturday on ssd and clone it afterwards and we'll see what happen.
I'll pick up your solution but tread continues in any case someone else might have same problem.
Thanks