@1xstealthx1

Just for the giggle, please detach your keyboard ( shutdown or reboot ) and if doesn't work, make a new USB MEDIA INSTALLATION on a DIFFERENT USB disk with the MEDIA CREATION TOOL.

For WINDOWS 7, make the installer media FAT32 to get it see from REFIND without the need of additional driver.
If your USB is made with the Windows USB/DVD Download Tool from Microsoft, or it is NTFS: drop within the "EFI\Boot\drivers" directory of DUET the ntfs_x64.efi extracted from the binary distribution of REFIND.

Either way in addition to this:
Extract the "bootmgfw.efi" from your "USB_LETTER_WITH_WINDOW7:\sources\boot.wim\1\Windows\Boot\EFI\" within a new "boot" directory in "USB_LETTER_WITH_WINDOW7:\efi" and re-name it to "bootx64.efi"


Notice: the windows recovery in case of system failure under window 7 might not be able to restore your OS.

Let me know about the keyboard and different USB installation media, I'm curious.

Tested on Windows 7 and Windows 10 bootable. same thing, no change.
I went the entire way without a keyboard at all.
just sits at Windows logo when i click on 3 circles to start.

I am waiting for my partner to get me a ISO of windows 10 so i can use media creation or rufus w/e.
I am far too tired to be downloading Iso's.

Unless you can tell me where's a good spot.

@1xstealthx1

Both Win7&Win10 stuck after the installer start?
And these are 2 different USB?
..might be a cursed board, but I don't believe it! :D

make some progress you got the board there!

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Check on with some *nix if it's the same? I mean what can go wrong?

I forgot to mention, Windows 7 only works by itself.
With DUET, no matter how many times your refresh or plug in the Win 7 USB, DUET doesn't detect it.

Windows 10 just did same thing, reads it, but hangs.
works fine without DUET but can be read on DUET.

No suggestions where to get ISO's? You literally can put a gun to my head right now, and if someone told me to find a ISO for windows on torrent, I wouldn't do it unless someone recommends one to me! lol

LOL

Microsoft lets you download untouched ISO's for free. Do you not like downloading ISO through the Creation Tool, or does that also not work for you? Is it too slow or something?

Go down the page a bit, it has direct download links to 10 iso and its directly from Microsoft.

https://www.itechtics.com/windows-10-180...nd_Installation

Thanks. i got the Downies.

I do something 1 way and I get too used to it.

I'm pretty sure you are trying to install OS for GPT, on MBR formatted boot drive (check diskpart for more info).
Also @1xstealthx1 SM951 doesn't have legacy oprom (I own both AHCI and NVMe versions).
HOWEVER if you own AHCI version of that drive, Windows 7 will work on it with no updates needed (assuming boot is configured correctly).
Did you disabled or disconnected any other hard drives/SSDs before installing Windows ?

PS. PM951 is NOT equall to SM951.
From what I read, PM951 MZ-FLV2560 has 1000/280 (MB/s) transfer speeds.

PS2. @noInk Is it possible to install DUET on hard drive, while utilising SATA "Hot Plug" function ?

@agentx007

Supposedly you can but it's better to allocate the MBR of DUET on it's own.

Zitat von agentx007 im Beitrag #323

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I'm pretty sure you are trying to install OS for GPT, on MBR formatted boot drive (please do not delete this short quote)

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Zitat von SkOrPn im Beitrag #325

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No, he hasn't gotten this far yet, because the installer is crapping out on him far before he even makes it to the boot drive selection screen, its not even leaving the initial circle animation. So that can't be his issue. I suspect it is the created usb installer, in fact I pretty much guarantee it. His symptom is identical to what I get when I have accidentally not created the usb correctly.

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Zitat von 1xstealthx1 im Beitrag #319

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I forgot to mention, Windows 7 only works by itself.

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Zitat von 1xstealthx1 im Beitrag #288

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sorry if I am a broken record. but when DUET is not plugged in, my Os copy works fine and all goes all the way to installing Os on the drive (it physically reads the M.2 Via Pci Express, just gives that error saying you cannot load the OS on here)

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@1xstealthx1

DUET doesn't detect the USB with the Windows 7 installer because there a 100% chance your WINDOWS 7 MEDIA INSTALLATION is imaged on some NTFS drive and also miss the required bootx64 EFI for UEFI!

Again, if Windows 10 BUG out, I would check on that too:

DOWNLOAD from Microsoft the MEDIA CREATION TOOL and follow it's self-explanatory instruction to make the USB directly from it.

IF this fail: we can see further were the issue lies.

@agentx007

Yeah of course his Windows 7 works when he removes the DUET UEFI bootloader, because since when has windows 7 not been designed for legacy systems? Windows 7 was designed for his system. So when he loads DUET his installer is expecting a legacy board that it was designed for. So it fails. When he removes the UEFI duet it then succeeds to work because it's back to a legacy system.

He needs to create a usb installer that has EFI drivers such as bootx64.efi, which is what we have been trying to get him to do.

With the NVME adapter @1xstealthx1 linked few post back, I'll take us forward and bring us to the discussion that he might not be able to fully shutdown the system from the OS in UEFI.
Might not happen, perhaps it's vendor vs specific device, but.. we'll see once he is done setting this up and got it running..

It's just a dumb x4 adapter like everyone else is using. Only difference is this one has a built in heat spreader for the nand chips. I have two of those type of x4 adapters and they work perfectly when shutting down my x58 and every other legacy system I have tried it on. I have been using those adapters on my x58 since 2016.