M.2 SSD detected by Win10 not PC

[Mattmorfesses]

So I recently bought a Samsung EVO 970 Nvme M.2 SSD. It's 1TB and I wanted to switch it out with my hard drive for windows so everything would work faster, however although when I install windows I see it as an option, it will not actually boot up windows and it also isn't being detected by my motherboard, I have an ASUS Prime B350 Plus, I've tried changing it to UEFI mode and then installing windows and then changing it back so it'd be detected but it still hasn't worked. 

Thoughts? (plz help )*: )

 

EDIT: I managed to fix it by downloading Ubuntu, making a new partition through that and then downloading windows. Don't know why that was the only solution but it works now so thanks for the replies anyways!

[paddy-stone]

OK, steps:-

1. Put windows on a USB, set the USB to be GPT partition scheme for UEFI, using rufus is best IMO -  Rufus
2. Disconnect current HDD/SSD (just to be sure).
3. Set the BIOS to UEFI mode only, unless you have equipment that doesn't work on UEFI.
4. Insert the USB we made in step 1, and boot from it.
5. Install windows on the 970 evo, boot into windows and make sure everything's OK.
6. Re-connect HDD if you want to, and wipe it if you don't need anything off of it... if you need stuff off it, I suggest you move/copy that stuff elsewhere to save you having boot troubles, and then wipe it.

[Mattmorfesses]

40 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

OK, steps:-

1. Put windows on a USB, set the USB to be GPT partition scheme for UEFI, using rufus is best IMO -  Rufus
2. Disconnect current HDD/SSD (just to be sure).
3. Set the BIOS to UEFI mode only, unless you have equipment that doesn't work on UEFI.
4. Insert the USB we made in step 1, and boot from it.
5. Install windows on the 970 evo, boot into windows and make sure everything's OK.
6. Re-connect HDD if you want to, and wipe it if you don't need anything off of it... if you need stuff off it, I suggest you move/copy that stuff elsewhere to save you having boot troubles, and then wipe it.

It doesn’t work, I’d boot from the SSD but it isn’t identified in the boot menu 

 

[paddy-stone]

So you mean after installing windows? or do you mean the drive doesn't show during installation?

If the latter, try going into bios and setting the BIOS to uefi mode only.

[Mattmorfesses]

2 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

So you mean after installing windows? or do you mean the drive doesn't show during installation?

If the latter, try going into bios and setting the BIOS to uefi mode only.

After installation. The uefi only setting is turned on but either way, the ssd is identified during installation, however it won’t actually start windows. When I plug my HDD back in and check the SSD it actually has all the folders for windows but something doesn’t let me boot windows from the SSD

[paddy-stone]

OK, leave the HDD out of the equation for a bit. Does it then boot into windows from the 970 evo?

 

If so, you might have to use a linux liveUSB to transfer anything you want off the HDD you have, unless you have a HDD dock or SATA to USB cable, or another PC/laptop to do it with.... and then wipe it to save your sanity.

You could try making sure the 970 is set as the first bootable HDD/SSD from in the BOOT tab of the BIOS. But even so sometimes conflicting boots will occur and will have to do the above.

[Animal901]

Is your bios up to date? Ahci and nvme are not exactly compatible.  Your description is what happens when you put an nvme m.2 on an ahci bios.  You'll have to double check your bios settings again. Definitely check your bios date. 

[Mattmorfesses]

3 hours ago, Animal901 said:

Is your bios up to date? Ahci and nvme are not exactly compatible.  Your description is what happens when you put an nvme m.2 on an ahci bios.  You'll have to double check your bios settings again. Definitely check your bios date. 

I updated it a day after I got this problem, I’m not too good with bios updates but I have a asus prime b350 plus and it has an m.2 slot shared with sata 5 and 6, so I switched the hdd to 4 and then just took it out of the equation completely 

[Mattmorfesses]

4 hours ago, paddy-stone said:

OK, leave the HDD out of the equation for a bit. Does it then boot into windows from the 970 evo?

 

If so, you might have to use a linux liveUSB to transfer anything you want off the HDD you have, unless you have a HDD dock or SATA to USB cable, or another PC/laptop to do it with.... and then wipe it to save your sanity.

You could try making sure the 970 is set as the first bootable HDD/SSD from in the BOOT tab of the BIOS. But even so sometimes conflicting boots will occur and will have to do the above.

I don’t need anything from the hdd at all the problem is that the windows installation usb will indentify the ssd when I boot from the usb but the motherboard doesn’t identify it in the bios. I tried doing the steps where I boot windows with uefi only in the bios so that it downloads the stuff that makes the motherboard identify it but even then the bios still won’t identify it. The main problem here is that I can’t boot from the SSD; not because it doesn’t work but because the motherboard doesn’t identify it in the bios or boot menu

[Animal901]

Maybe you can only use sata m.2 

[paddy-stone]

15 hours ago, Animal901 said:

Maybe you can only use sata m.2 

Nope

 

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MD Ryzen™ 2nd Generation/ Ryzen™ with Radeon™ Vega Graphics/ Ryzen™ 1st Generation Processors :
1 x M.2 Socket 3, with M key, type 2242/2260/2280/22110 storage devices support (SATA & PCIE 3.0 x 4 mode)*²

 

[Animal901]

1 hour ago, paddy-stone said:

Nope

 

 

Good now go try an ahci m.2

[Mattmorfesses]

8 hours ago, Animal901 said:

Good now go try an ahci m.2

wait what

 

[Animal901]

On 9/5/2019 at 5:06 PM, Mattmorfesses said:

wait what

 

You can't get an nvme to work. That's what.

[Chiyawa]

I think you may need to contact Asus. To my knowledge, the motherboard doesn't support M2 Boot.