PCIe samsung 970 EVO not recognized while installing Win 10

Many congratulations for the solution! So you have a Samsung 970 NVMe M2 SD operating in your Dell now?  Nice.

Unfortunately, your new information makes it clear that folks without a Dell version of the Windows installation media cannot use a NVMe M2 SSD in these particular Dell work stations.

Hi!

I was following your responses to the Dell Workstation guy with the issue installing Win 10 on Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe SSD.

I am building a PC by myself, the details are as under (Not all details, just those which are necessary for the resolution of the issue):

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 2400G

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-A320M-S2H

- It has a single PCIe x 16 for Graphics Card I think and a single M.2 connector (I believe it's a PCIe x 4 not sure but I am certain I will affix the above mentioned NVMe storage)

- 2 DIMM slots, dual channel

RAM: 2 x 4GB T-force Vulcan 3000 Mhz, CAS 16

Storage: 250 GB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 NVMe SSD

The query here is that, Should I prepare to know/to perform things before installing Windows 10 on the SSD (as many people experience it during the installation procedure)

I respect your opinions shared, as many people have benefitted from this post. Could you list out what should be done before-hand (like formatting the M.2 or select RAID 0...whatever)

I'd be grateful to you. Sorry I am new to the site. Maybe I should have started a new thread for this. Consider my apology.

Thank you. Anyone else can openly respond to it.

The ultimate solution :Paradise: is to use Deploy cab for WinPe. If you extract that cab file it has all the storage drivers and it is updated regularly by Dell. Inject the drivers in win10 Installation USB or perhaps extract and point to them when installing Win10 when 960 or 970 is not seen by the Installation media.

"Dell Command Deploy WinPe 10.0 Driver Pack"  - That is the package needed- It is at the Dell Driver Page for most of the systems

I believe the issue is the Dell system is setup as RAID in the BIOS and needs to be changed to AHCI. 

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@grysql wrote:

Many congratulations for the solution! So you have a Samsung 970 NVMe M2 SD operating in your Dell now?  Nice.

Unfortunately, your new information makes it clear that folks without a Dell version of the Windows installation media cannot use a NVMe M2 SSD in these particular Dell work stations.

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That's nonsense.  The other issue is that there are 2 kinds of NVME.

One is PCI-E and the other is SATA.

B keyed media do not work in PCI-E adapters as PCI-E.

You will want to be starting with windows 10 1809 or 1903.

Older versions of windows lack the F6 mass storage Drivers.

M2 Drives 2 kinds

General OEM system builder DVD disk as well as the ISO from online works fine for AHCI.  Trying IRRT or Legacy MBR will have issues.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO

It does require USB2 flash drive and or USB2 DVD/Blueray Drive for installation media to prevent the please install driver error.

The other issue is that Legacy Booting is no longer and option. 64 bit windows 10 is required now.

This media and Drive works fine for Dell systems from 2006 to 2019 without issue or error.

USB3 install media will say there are no drives and or say that a DVD driver is missing.

This is true for windows 7 or 8 or 10.

Installation Media Missing

https://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Windows-Pro-System-Builder/dp/B00ZSHDJ4O

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-8x-external-usb-2-0-blu-ray-disc-double-layer-dvdrw-cd-rw-disc-rewriter-black/9243009.p?skuId=9243009

1507  1511  1607  1703  1709  1803  1809  1903

I have a desktop ( Alienware arura r4) the motherboard from DELL, bois A11 built-in 2013. It has SSD and I would like to insert 970 EVO plus Nvme m.2 and make it as C: instead of the SATA SSD. the NVme appears as a hard drive or USB but it can not appear when trying to boot from bios. what I have to do?

In case someone else here wants to use a vanilla windoze image...

This works for UEFI with no legacy options required

Format a USB key with 2 partitions.
Partition Table MBR (MSDOS) not GPT
Partition 1 atleast 1GB FAT32
Partition 2 atleast 6GB NTFS

Open the ISO in Windows Explorer
Partition 1 -
copy the root contents of the windows iso. exclude the sources directory.  i.e. include the boot and efi directories. and bootmgr files.
copy ISO\sources\boot.wim to USB Partition 1\sources\boot.wim

Partition 2 -
copy the ISO\sources to Partition2\sources

It appears Dell UEFI + GPT equals a bad time... This works.

Thank you for information. I have a T7910 with a Toshiba NVME 256GB

https://www.amazon.co.uk/256GB-Toshiba-Solid-State-760MBs/dp/B074BJ7FC4

working on Windows 10 64 Bit.

I was going to buy a Samsung 1TB 970 evo NVME and clone the Toshiba 256GB drive. Do you think it will work?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-MZ-V7S1T0BW-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B07MBQPQ62/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=970+evo+1tb&qid=1584010889&s=computers&sr=1-1

Kind regards

John

Hi Hassan-WS
I have a same problem With Dell T7920 Workstation Windows Installation not Recognize Samsung 970 EVO Plus Nvme m.2 1TB.
I don't know whats wrong. Here is may steps;
1) Remove Original 250GB old SSD from Front Flexbay, Install New Samsung 970 EVO Plus Nvme m.2 1TB.
2) I want Clean Windows 10 Pro For Workstation Install this new SSD.
3) Create a bootable Windows 10 Pro For Workstation USB from Microsoft
4-) BIOS was deteced Samsung 970 EVO Plus,
5-) Download Intel Driver from https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver
6-) Prepare a different USB with f6flpy-x64.zip for using during the installation.
7-) BIOS Option like this;
UEFI, Secure Boot On ,RAID
8-) F12 Boot menu and Start installation from USB
9-) Windows not recognize any disk
10) I used option but not compatible found driver in f6flpy-x64

I have worked hard for 4 days, tried many options, I was not successful. Is VROC Module absolutely necessary for create Bootable Disk on Windows 10 Pro For Workstation...

Thanks for help..

Hakan ORNEK