970 Evo not bootable on Z97

[Sebsta]

Good day please, 

 

I just bought the awesome m2 SSD from Samsung, the 970 Evo 500GB. 

After 3 hours spending to make it an bootable drive, I have no choice than just to came here to ask for huge help please because I am sure I missed some details. 
The Windows is officially from their website and works on sata ssd.

 

My motherboard is Asus Gene VII Z97, latest bios update: 3003. Windows 10 Pro x64 of course.

 

On the attached pictures below, you can see that I am unable to click proceed with the windows installation on my new ssd drive. 
Having this, after I had to use a software to clone my actual Windows from my old sata SSD to the new m2 SSD. Which worked. But still I cannot make it bootable. Even pluggin out my old device, remaining just my Evo in use. Of course all my HDD are pluged out. 

 

I try several times to make the correct booting order of my devices, as the Boot Option #1 being Windows boot manager, than my actual old SSD, than my new SSD, and so on. I may miss something here please? 

Also of course I tried so many times to change the option of the PCI-E express x4 modes to mPcie, m.2 mode, PCIe x4 mode, from the onboard bios devices, and none worked, still same results. 

 

Any solutions please? 

 

All I want to make my new SSD bootable and to be happy with my Windows and my powerful SSD.

 

Thank you so much please!

Sebastian

[Skiiwee29]

I dont think NVMe is supported as a boot drive on Z97 chipsets. I could be wrong though. 

[hconverse02]

Just now, Skiiwee29 said:

I dont think NVMe is supported as a boot drive on Z97 chipsets. I could be wrong though. 

^^

[hconverse02]

Check manufacturers website for bios update or it just might not be supported as a boot drive

[Sebsta]

Thank you for the reply, yes I was thinking the same but looking on the website its stated that it works and even I checked on Samsung website, z97 works with NVME. (960, not sure about 970 now...) 

 

[Zodiark1593]

8 hours ago, Skiiwee29 said:

I dont think NVMe is supported as a boot drive on Z97 chipsets. I could be wrong though. 

NVME was supported by Z97 and even some H97 chipsets, though many required BIOS updates for it to work.

[DocSwag]

What does windows say if you click show details?

[Sebsta]

I just received an answer from Asus, and im in the middle of processing this new method of application.

Thank you so much for the solutions, will be back shortly

[Sebsta]

 

Hi there guys - I brought some updates of my 970 Evo installation error

 

I went through Command Prompt, doing these settings:

diskpart
list disk
select disk 0 
clean 
convert gpt
exit

 

After that, it really went through! I could select the drive and started the Installation (of course I delete the partition first and than create a new partition before the install)

 

Everything is fine and running, until 20% - and got this message now  

 

This has no ending and I really cant find any solution this time - does someone of you know why Im getting this error message? Looking on forums looks like is not a big deal and still there are no clear solution for this.

 

Please let me know if someone has a hint...

 

Thank you so so much please !

Seb

[JoostinOnline]

On 5/28/2018 at 7:14 AM, Sebsta said:

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You need to delete the partition 1 and 2 of drive 1 (or drive 0 if you only have the SSD in). Then install on the unallocated space.

On 5/28/2018 at 7:15 AM, Skiiwee29 said:

I dont think NVMe is supported as a boot drive on Z97 chipsets. I could be wrong though. 

 

On 5/28/2018 at 7:16 AM, hconverse02 said:

^^

His will.