- Jan 11, 2019
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Hello,
I just built a 100% brand new PC as a gift for someone, and I'm trying to install Windows 11 on it via a USB. The USB has the necessary installation files on it from my current computer.
The issue that I'm having is:
Whenever I try to install Windows 11 onto the new computer, it can't find the new NVMe M.2 SSD as an option to install onto. Any tutorial I have read or watched has said that is probably because the new drive is not formatted or doesn't have the required drivers or something. Assuming that's the case, how am I supposed to get Windows 11 on to the new drive if it's inside of a computer with no ability to access anything outside of the Windows 11 installation setup?
I can't simply plug the new M.2 SSD into MY PC because my PC doesn't have an M.2 slot like the new one does(plus I'd have to remove the M.2 from it's heatsink and I already took the film off of it and I feel like taking the m.2 SSD out of the heatsink and putting it back in after the protective film has already been taken off will make the heatsink not work as well idk). I also can't simply plug my PC's SATA SSD into the new PC to configure the new M.2 drive because I don't have any extra SATA cables which means I'd have to rip apart MY PC and put them into the new PC then put it all back, which would be a massive hassle.
I'm pretty computer savvy, but physically building them is where I have less experience in. Is there any way to fix this problem without disassembling something? I've already spent so much time building the new one, I just have no patience to re-do something unless it's absolutely necessary haha.
P.s., even though I'm not savvy in building PC's, I'm about 99% sure the M.2 SSD IS plugged into the correct M.2 slot. Someone somewhere was saying to be sure it's in the right one, so before someone gives that as an answer, I'm pretty sure that isn't it.
I just built a 100% brand new PC as a gift for someone, and I'm trying to install Windows 11 on it via a USB. The USB has the necessary installation files on it from my current computer.
The issue that I'm having is:
Whenever I try to install Windows 11 onto the new computer, it can't find the new NVMe M.2 SSD as an option to install onto. Any tutorial I have read or watched has said that is probably because the new drive is not formatted or doesn't have the required drivers or something. Assuming that's the case, how am I supposed to get Windows 11 on to the new drive if it's inside of a computer with no ability to access anything outside of the Windows 11 installation setup?
I can't simply plug the new M.2 SSD into MY PC because my PC doesn't have an M.2 slot like the new one does(plus I'd have to remove the M.2 from it's heatsink and I already took the film off of it and I feel like taking the m.2 SSD out of the heatsink and putting it back in after the protective film has already been taken off will make the heatsink not work as well idk). I also can't simply plug my PC's SATA SSD into the new PC to configure the new M.2 drive because I don't have any extra SATA cables which means I'd have to rip apart MY PC and put them into the new PC then put it all back, which would be a massive hassle.
I'm pretty computer savvy, but physically building them is where I have less experience in. Is there any way to fix this problem without disassembling something? I've already spent so much time building the new one, I just have no patience to re-do something unless it's absolutely necessary haha.
P.s., even though I'm not savvy in building PC's, I'm about 99% sure the M.2 SSD IS plugged into the correct M.2 slot. Someone somewhere was saying to be sure it's in the right one, so before someone gives that as an answer, I'm pretty sure that isn't it.
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