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#6046 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Sat Oct 17, 2020 10:51 pm

Fernando, understood. I did actually do a fresh win10 install on the new PCIe to test it out. Then I wiped the drive and cloned it from my older win10 install with a MBR formatted SSD. I did not want to the go through the hours of restoring programs etc. onto a fresh win10 installation. Cloning an existing win10 install will work with fewer issues if you start with GPT formatting your existing drive that is UEFI booting.

Hope that makes sense?

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#6047 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Sun Oct 18, 2020 12:07 am

@denwood:
Although I would always prefer to boot off an NVMe SSD with a clean installed OS, you can use a cloned old OS partition with a Guimode Partition Table as well, but it is not necessary to convert the partition scheme before you are going to do a fresh OS installation onto a previously used SSD. It is enough to wipe all existing partitions (inclusive the one with the boot sector) and to let the OS Setup create a new system drive for the OS.

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#6048 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:48 pm (Last edited: Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:15 pm)

Hello, I'm new here.
I really appreciate everyone here who post this guide how to make NVMe work on old computer.
But I have a problem during the installation.

I'm using ASRock Z77 fatal1ty as Motherboard and Intel i7-3770k as my Processor.
I have a Samsung SSD 970 Evo and using an NVMe to PCIe 3.0 adapter to install it on my motherboard.
So I following the instruction from this forum which is modding BIOS using AMI's MMTool and then flash the bios.

Here is BIOS driver comparison:

Left Windows is Original BIOS
Right Windows is Modded BIOS using AMI's MMTool

After flashing the BIOS, I'm able to choose a new hard drive as a bootable device beside my old hard drive.
But first, I try to booting using my Old Drive and test my SSD as a storage, it's work fine.

Here is the pict:

Next, I want to install a clean windows 10 on my SSD, I have win10 installation on my USB.
Before I do that, I remove all my old hard drive and only keep the SSD.
Then I change booting to the USB and begin the win10 installation, until I found this problem.

I can't choose any hard drive to install the windows

I've already trying to format the disk partition type both as MBR and GPT, but none of them works.
can someone help me please ? what did I do wrong.

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#6049 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:14 pm

@tyaz:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
Since the BIOS has detected the NVMe SSD (which name has it there?), the BIOS modification and the flashing procedure seems to have been successful.
I suspect, that you have either missed a required BIOS setting (the options "Fast Boot" and "Secure Boot" must be set to "Disabled" and loading of EFI modules must be allowed) or didn't prepare the USB Flashdrive correctly according to my guide. Please look into the related Rufus picture and compare the settings with your Rufus GUI. You have to boot the USB Flashdrive in UEFI mode and the OS installation has to be done by using the Guimode Partition Table.
Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)

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#6050 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 4:33 am (Last edited: Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:50 am)

@Fernando:
Thank you for you reply!
Name of the SSD is a bit weird, it was named "PATA", it's the new one that appeared after I flash the BIOS.
and it's disappear when I remove the SSD.
Here is the list for the Fast Boot, Secure Boot and Loading EFI Modules:

Both fast boot and secure boot already disabled, and I boot from "UEFI: Sandisk" which is my win10 installation USB.
Here is my SSD Format Partition Type (GPT) and Rufus Win10 bootable device creation:

I can boot to UEFI USB and start the windows installation, but when the windows ask me to choose disk partition to install, it didn't appear at all.
Just an empty list.
If anyone have been through the same problem, please help me ..
I really appreciate it, Thank You!

EDIT by Fernando: Unneeded fully quoted post replaced by directly addressing to its author and unneeded blank lines removed (to save space)

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#6051 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:00 pm (Last edited: Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:43 pm)

@tyaz:
Thanks for having posted the requested details and screenshots.
Please redo the creation of the bootable USB Flash drive by using

a) the currently newest Rufus version v3.12 and´
b) the currently newest Win10 v2004 (or v20H2, which will be available within the next days).

The Rufus USB Flash Drive should be FAT32 formatted as shown here:

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#6052 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 4:19 pm

@Fernando
Thank you for your advice!
But unfortunately it didn't work ..
I've download the newest version of win10 v2004 from microsoft website and newest rufus v3.12.
Then create a bootable device with the exact same format as your suggestion.

Here's the results :

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#6053 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:17 pm

I would try booting into your old OS, and do a diskpart clean on the PCIe SSD. I'd also try the install using a boot USB that the windows media creation tool creates for you.

Just google the diskpart method to clean a disk.

What do your BIOS CSM settings look like?

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#6054 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:45 pm (Last edited: Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:45 pm)

@denwood
Hi, thank you for the answer!
Yes I already try it before, diskpart clean using Administrator Command Prompt, the result is same.
About my BIOS CSM setting is looks like this :

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#6055 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:47 pm

@tyaz:
Did you or someone else previously use the NVMe SSD or is it a brand new "raw" one?

Zitat von denwood im Beitrag #6054
What do your BIOS CSM settings look like?

Yes, try to enable CSM, but don't forget to allow the loading of EFI Option ROM modules.

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#6056 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 5:56 pm

@Fernando
It's brand new, I just bought it yesterday.

I think the problem is on my BIOS maybe ?
Because it detects the SSD as "PATA" instead of the SSD name which is Samsung 970.
I downloaded the original bios from ASRock BIOS

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#6057 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:03 pm

@tyaz:
The BIOS of all mainboards, whose original BIOS doesn't support NVMe, does not show the NVMe SSD with its correct name. So the fact, that your BIOS just shows a disk drive named "PATA", is absolutely normal.
Please attach or give me the link to your modded BIOS. Then I will do a look into it.

My current System:
MB: ASRock X570 Pro4, CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, System Drive: 500 GB Samsung 980 Pro, Graphics: Sapphire Radeon RX570, OS: Win10 x64 Pro
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#6058 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:13 pm (Last edited: Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:14 pm)

@Fernando
I see, so the SSD name won't shown correctly on modded BIOS.
Here is my modded BIOS.
Thank you for your help, I really appreciate it!

tyaz has attached files to this post

ModdedBios.zip

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#6059 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 6:43 pm

@tyaz:
Thanks for having attached your modded BIOS. As far as I can see, it seems to be fine.
So I suspect another reason for your problem to get the NVMe SSD detected by the Win10 Setup.
To find out, wether the NVMe SSD itself is ok, it may be a good idea to attach it as additional storage drive to any running Windows system and to look for the shown information within the "Disk Management".

My current System:
MB: ASRock X570 Pro4, CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600, System Drive: 500 GB Samsung 980 Pro, Graphics: Sapphire Radeon RX570, OS: Win10 x64 Pro
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#6060 | RE: [Guide] How to get full NVMe support for all Systems with an AMI UEFI BIOS datum

Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:06 pm

@Fernando
Thank you for checking on my modded BIOS.
The NVMe SSD is okay, currently I use it as additional storage.
I run Windows 7 on my old Hard Disk, I also copy some files to my new SSD, and it's fine.
Here is the picture of Disk Management on my Computer :

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