Installing a samsung 980 EVO Pro SSD to XPS 13 Plus 9320 issue

If you are going to do a completely fresh install of Windows 11 from USB, you must use the Windows Media Creation tool from Microsoft. Once it has created the USB you must download the Intel RST driver (specific for your laptop) in the ZIP file format and unzip it to your USB. This should then allow you to detect the SSD when performing the install.

Thank you d5123101.

I ve tried that but the issue is that I am unable to boot from usb. Even in the bios, I can't seem to enable it.

Any suggestions as to how to enable bios to boot from usb?

Cheers

Can you take a picture of your system when you enter the one time boot menu when you're hitting F12 on boot? You're using a USB C to USB A adapter for the USB flash drive?

Thanks d5123101

Yes, I'm using USB A to C adapter for the flash drive.

This seems to be a multi-part question.  So, perhaps it would be best to get your USB drive situation working.  If you are running Optane Memory on that system, it can make a difference with how you install.

You can allow the Media Creation tool to create the flash drive.  The reason is, there is a file in there that is too large to go on a normal Fat 32 drive.  The MCT splits it for you so it will copy normally.

Note:  Some newer systems, can use a NTFS formatted drive to boot into UEFI.  If your system will do that, all you have to do in format the drive as NTFS then mount the .iso and copy over the files.   Everyone needs a working Install Media drive as a backup for normal operations.

Once you have the flash drive created, you can insert it before you start the boot and use the F12 key to get a boot device menu and then select the UEFI version of the drive to boot.  When you select the F12 key, you have to start tapping the key very early in the boot process and keep tapping until you see a message.

Maybe after you tie down the USB situation, everything else will be easier to deal with.

As normal practice, do not leave an original drive installed while trying to use a cloned or imaged version of it.

Thanks saltgrass. Explanation regarding the media creation tool was helpful as I could not understand why I couldn't copy the iso file on to non ntfs usb. And my system wouldn't boot off ntfs usb.

Hi guys 

So I managed to get the system to boot off the usb and clean installed win 11.

When all seemed going well, the progress stops at connecting to wifi page. It is coming up blank, no available network to select or even give me a local install and connect later.

Any suggestions?

If you are referring to the part of the install that requests a network, you can say you don't yet have one and the install should proceed.  

Hi saltgrass

So I tried again, trying to find a no network option but there is none and I am unable to proceed.

Pls see the screen shot.

Is there a work around?

I actually did my first 22H2 clean install the other day and saw what you are seeing.  This is new and does not appear to give you an option to go around the network requirement.

There was a thread on the Microsoft forum where someone gave a command to give to allow a bypass, so I will look for that.

If I do another install, what I am going to do is try disabling the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in the Bios to see if the install will proceed.  Since you don't show any networks available, I would have thought it would have proceeded, but I guess not.

This is that thread, let us know if it works.

How do I go about installing WiFi drivers on my new PC without having - Microsoft Community

Try this

1. At “Let’s connect you to a network” screen, press SHIFT+F10 keys together. It’ll launch Command Prompt window on the top of setup wizard window.

2. Now type OOBE\BYPASSNRO in Command Prompt window and press Enter.

3. The setup will restart your computer and after reboot, you’ll get a new option “I don’t have Internet” to skip the Internet connection requirement.

Click on the option and you’ll be see next step to create and setup a local user account to complete the installation process.

Hi everyone 

Thanks to everyone s help, I've managed to get the computer up and running.

I thought I d share what I did, so it might help someone.

I used the media creation tool to start a clean install.

I also prepared another external ssd which I copied the driver folders from the original ssd which had windows installed on it. I did this because the Intel optane drivers were not showing up on the list for the Samsung ssd to select.

When asked for the ssd destination, I selected a driver from the external ssd, and chose one from the top down until one worked.

I then used mokeiko s method of bypassing the internet and finished install of windows. Then I loaded the killer wifi driver and Samsung ssd program to get the drivers installed.

It's working good.