M.2 NVMe not recognised as boot drive

[Hermees]

good day, evening, morning and night. 

 

Thanks for trying to help me out here..

I recently bought a Lexar NM790 2TB for my motherboard H410M-A PRO.

However it doesnt seem to want to recognise it as a bootable drive. I have a flash drive ready, but cant seem to set it as boot drive nr.1 in order to flash it. 

When going into windows, drive mnager does recognise it. So I dont know why it would not be able to see it in the bios at all.

The Weird thing is though, when i go into advanced settings it does have the option to do a diagnostics check on the m2 ssd. So it definately knows its there. The test checks out saying there are no issues. 

 

Things I tried which didnt work:
Unplug the old HDD to force it to connect to the M.2: I had to plug in the HDMI into my motherboard output, this had no signal.. Another problem I have i guess..

I also tried turning on the CSM configuration as recommended by different sources. It didnt recognise the drive either afterwards.

 

Anyone who has some thoughts?

 

Kind regards, Hermees

 

 

[C2dan88]

9 minutes ago, Hermees said:

I have a flash drive ready, but cant seem to set it as boot drive nr.1 in order to flash it. 

To install windows to m.2 you first need to boot to the windows installation media on your usb drive.

[OddOod]

Welcome to the forums!
Once you have created the windows installation USB with the Windows Install tool, you have to reboot and get to boot options in bios, then boot from the USB. Then, in the install wizard, you can select your new drive as the destination for the install

[Hermees]

Alright! I hope my motherboard HDMI output will work during the reinstall. 

Thanks for the quick responses

[Hermees]

I just tried to start boot from the flash and it displays a different menu with 4 different drives to select, and what the drives contain. Here the SSD is visible aswell as the USB flash drive. However i cannot seem to select any setup wizard or prompt to initate the install

2 hours ago, OddOod said:

Welcome to the forums!
Once you have created the windows installation USB with the Windows Install tool, you have to reboot and get to boot options in bios, then boot from the USB. Then, in the install wizard, you can select your new drive as the destination for the install

 

[OddOod]

On 12/5/2024 at 5:02 PM, Hermees said:

I just tried to start boot from the flash and it displays a different menu with 4 different drives to select, and what the drives contain. Here the SSD is visible aswell as the USB flash drive. However i cannot seem to select any setup wizard or prompt to initate the install

 

Did you boot from the flashdrive after you used the Windows Installation Media Creation Tool to etch the installer on it?

[Hermees]

On 12/10/2024 at 4:30 PM, OddOod said:

Did you boot from the flashdrive after you used the Windows Installation Media Creation Tool to etch the installer on it?

Yea, i intsalled the media here: link

then restarted into bios, lower left corner sais button: usb boot

Then it restarts and displays a menu with my HDD, USB and SS M.2 as options. 

when clicking on the usb i see the contents but when clicking stuff it doesnt activate the installer..

This process should be automatic right? 

 

I did not disconnect my HDD with windows on it since i nee this for my hdmi output, idk why but the MB hdmi is not outputting

 

[OddOod]

8 hours ago, Hermees said:

idk why but the MB hdmi is not outputting

Do you have a GPU?

 

8 hours ago, Hermees said:

then restarted into bios, lower left corner sais button: usb boot

Then it restarts and displays a menu with my HDD, USB and SS M.2 as options

I think you may not have properly etched the USB. If you boot from it, you should get the spinning windows boot dots, then a screen that looks like this