Question Windows 10 installer not detecting NVMe SSD ?

[A_Goat]

At a loss here, just recently built a new computer but I'm trying to recycle the NVMe SSD I had in my last PC.

This SSD worked fine on my previous board, had Windows installed on it with the same media creation USB.
The SSD is detected in the BIOS and I can access all files on it in the BIOS. I discovered this when I was flashing the MB bios and saw it as available storage.

The Motherboard BIOS is up to date, MSI B650P-Wifi. Installed is a 7700x CPU

The issue is that in the Windows installer, the NVMe SSD does not show up as a drive, nor can it be seen via diskpart.
The drive in question is a 1TB Mushkin Tempest gen3 x4, installed in the top most M.2 slot.
I've tried disconnecting all other sorts of storage, same result.
CSM is disabled, UEFI enabled
I tried to run secureerase+ in the BIOS on that SSD, but it said the process failed.

What gives? Any ideas?

I've seen other posts saying people who had this issue needed to install "intel RST drivers", but to my knowledge nothing in this configuration is intel.

 

[Lutfij]

What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard? As for your installer, did you try recreating the installer? Does the 1TB SSD have any other partitions on it, aside from the one made by the OS, for the OS?

 

[A_Goat]

What BIOS version are you currently on for your motherboard? As for your installer, did you try recreating the installer? Does the 1TB SSD have any other partitions on it, aside from the one made by the OS, for the OS?

The most up to date one from MSI, 7D78v14

I'm recreating it today on a different stick to try that later.

It might have other partitions, the only drive that can be seen is some partition that has 2gb of space on it. But I don't know if its coming from the SSD or the thumbstick. But I never manually made other ones on it, whatever is on it happened automatically during windows creation.

 

[SkyNetRising]

The issue is that in the windows installer, the NVME does not show up as a drive, nor can it be seen via diskpart.

It may be necessary to load nvme drivers.
This may happen, if you're trying to install some of early windows 10 versions.
Recreating windows install media to latest installer version should fix the problem.

If you had Intel system, then wrong sata controller mode can cause it too (Intel RST with Optane).
But you have AMD system, so this is not applicable.

 

[A_Goat]

It may be necessary to load nvme drivers.
This may happen, if you're trying to install some of early windows 10 versions.
Recreating windows install media to latest installer version should fix the problem.

If you had Intel system, then wrong sata controller mode can cause it too (Intel RST with Optane).
But you have AMD system, so this is not applicable.

I tried to find NVME drivers specific to my board and particular SSD, but couldn't locate anything other than raid drivers for the motherboard. Should I try to install that? I'm not gonna use raid.

 

[Bob.B]

At a loss here, just recently built a new computer but I'm trying to recycle the NVME I had in my last PC.

NVME worked fine in my previous board, had windows installed on it and it was installed via the same media creation USB.
The NVME is detected in the BIOS and I can access all files on it in the BIOS. I discovered this when I was flashing the MB bios and saw it as available storage.

The Motherboard BIOS is up to date, MSI B650P-Wifi. Installed is a 7700x CPU

The issue is that in the windows installer, the NVME does not show up as a drive, nor can it be seen via diskpart.
The drive in question is a 1tb Mushkin Tempest gen3 x4, installed in the top most m.2 slot.
I've tried disconnecting all other sorts of storage, same result.
CSM is disabled, UEFI enabled
I tried to run secureerase+ in the BIOS on that SSD, but it said the process failed.

What gives? Any ideas?

I've seen other posts saying people who had this issue needed to install "intel RST drivers", but to my knowledge nothing in this configuration is intel.

Try the other m.2 slot.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I tried to find NVME drivers specific to my board and particular SSD, but couldn't locate anything other than raid drivers for the motherboard.

You can get nvme drivers from gigabyte windows USB install tool.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Utility?kw=windows&p=1
Download, unzip, find included drivers (in StorageControllers folder),
copy StorageControllers folder to USB flash drive and load during windows install.

 

[A_Goat]

You can get nvme drivers from gigabyte windows USB install tool.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Support/Utility?kw=windows&p=1
Download, unzip, find included drivers (in StorageControllers folder),
copy StorageControllers folder to USB flash drive and load during windows install.

Did you mean a specific one? They all show for windows 7, though I did try one, but none of the drivers were compatible. It's a Mushkin SSD and the driver pack only included samsung/intel options.

 

[A_Goat]

I just made a brand new USB stick, using the latest creation tool from Microsoft.... Same issue 😭

I'm stumped.

 

[A_Goat]

Alright, I've confirmed that the "2gb" partition that shows up in the windows installer is infact the Nvme drive. When I select it in diskpart and run the detail command, it shows the name and type. Why is it only 2gb? How can I clean it and reformat if the full thing doesn't show in diskpart?

 

[SkyNetRising]

When I select it in diskpart and run the detail command, it shows the name and type. Why is it only 2gb? How can I clean it and reformat if the full thing doesn't show in diskpart?

Can you show screenshot?
Execute following commands and show command output.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

list partition​

list volume​

 

[A_Goat]

Can you show screenshot?
Execute following commands and show command output.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

diskpart​

list disk​

select disk 0​

list partition​

list volume​

I copy and pasted the output instead. I eventually gave up trying to image the NVME and instead imaged it to a 2.5 ssd. In the diskpart output below, Disk 0 and 2 are 2.5 SSD's
Disk 1 is a mechanical drive.
Disk 3, is the clapped NVME. If I detail that disk in disc part, it is for sure the NVME. In drive properties it shows up as "MN-5216" and is labeled as a disk drive, driver from 2006. In the BIOS the correct SN is displayed as MKNSSDtS1TB-D6

Running list volume shows all volumes.

Mushkin said to RMA it, but I already verified that it still works completely fine in the old system. I told them this over the phone and they still said RMA it.
????

Here's the output.

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 1 Online 931 GB 100 MB
Disk 2 Online 931 GB 1024 KB *
* Disk 3 Online 2048 MB 2048 MB

DISKPART> select disk 3

Disk 3 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list partition

There are no partitions on this disk to show.

DISKPART> list volume

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 0 E Realtek CDFS CD-ROM 8000 KB Healthy
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 930 GB Healthy Boot
Volume 2 FAT32 Partition 100 MB Healthy System
Volume 3 NTFS Partition 526 MB Healthy Hidden
Volume 4 D Bulky Bitch NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy
Volume 5 F Speedy Girl NTFS Partition 931 GB Healthy

DISKPART>