Windows installation issue

bL1nd3R · Sep 14, 2021

Hello people. I'm trying to install windows 10 on a B560M Aorus Pro Mobo and Samsung 860 EVO SATA ssd. The issue is that the windows installation cannot find the driver, neither the diskpart tool in CMD. The SSD is GPT and so is the flash drive. I have tried enabling/disabling CMS and secure boot, I've tried both legacy and UEFI. Same thing happens. Idk what else to do.

elghinnarisa · Sep 14, 2021

what CPU do you have? Which slot is the 970 in? From what I can find, the top m.2 slot is only usable if you have a 11th gen cpu.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_b560m-aorus-pro-ax_1002_e.pdf

page 19 etc.

bL1nd3R · Sep 14, 2021

I have an i5-10400F , the SSD is 2.5 inch. I tried every possible sata slot.

elghinnarisa · Sep 14, 2021

wait 970 pro sata? as far as I know the 970 pro is a m.2 card only, NVMe.

If its a sata device it should require no drivers or specific configurations to install but if windows installation is as wonky as it's been in the past, have you tried putting the installation media (USB I assume) in another USB port? I had issues in the past were no drives were detected during installation using specific USB ports.

bL1nd3R · Sep 14, 2021

elghinnarisa said:
what CPU do you have? Which slot is the 970 in? From what I can find, the top m.2 slot is only usable if you have a 11th gen cpu.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Manual/mb_manual_b560m-aorus-pro-ax_1002_e.pdf
page 19 etc.

I have an i5-10400F , the SSD is 2.5 inch. I tried every possible sata slot. I edited the initial post, I did input the wrong SSD there, sorry. It's a 860 EVO.

FIX : There was a feature pre-enabled in BIOS which I missed, intel rapid storage technology, turned it off, everything good now.

elghinnarisa · Sep 14, 2021

Do you know if the drive is functional from previous installation or setup?
Have you, for the sake of it, tried different SATA cables and tried another SATA power cable just to make sure neither of those are bad?

Do you see the device in UEFI?

bL1nd3R · Sep 14, 2021

elghinnarisa said:
Do you know if the drive is functional from previous installation or setup?
Have you, for the sake of it, tried different SATA cables and tried another SATA power cable just to make sure neither of those are bad?

Do you see the device in UEFI?

I tried everything you mentioned and the drive is functional and shows in UEFI. It was because intel rapid storage technology was enabled in BIOS.

elghinnarisa · Sep 14, 2021

bL1nd3R said:
I tried everything you mentioned and the drive is functional and shows in UEFI. It was because intel rapid storage technology was enabled in BIOS.

Didn't think that would be on per default, for installation with IRST enabled you need to manually select/install the drivers during the windows installation procedure, you know the part where you can select a device to load drivers from. Or as in your case, just disable it if you dont need it.

bL1nd3R · Sep 14, 2021

elghinnarisa said:
Didn't think that would be on per default, for installation with IRST enabled you need to manually select/install the drivers during the windows installation procedure, you know the part where you can select a device to load drivers from. Or as in your case, just disable it if you dont need it.

Since you seem to know things about IRST, is it worth being enabled? What exactly does it do?

elghinnarisa · Sep 14, 2021

bL1nd3R said:
Since you seem to know things about IRST, is it worth being enabled? What exactly does it do?

I actually never used it myself, I only know about it since I read about it long ago.
It's a bunch of things thrown under one umbrella, like their Rapid Raid and Smart Response Technology etc. It was the SRT that I read most about which enabled you to use a SSD as a cache device for your other storage devices. Which I was curious about back in the day but never actually tried it out. As well as your normal RAID levels and features and probably a bunch of other things they slapped on it over the years.

Intel® RST: What is Intel® Rapid Storage Technology? | Intel

Premium data demands the best solutions to store and protect it. Intel® Rapid Storage Technology improves data reliability and delivers greater levels of performance, responsiveness and expandability.

www.intel.com

ne6togadno · Sep 14, 2021

i had similar issue with b250+i6600 and crucial mx500 sata ssd.
solved it with adding the drive as secondary in working pc and partitioning it with diskpart.
with the drive back in b250+i6600 system installation went w/o problems.

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Processor	Ryzen 5 3600
Motherboard	Gigabyte B450 Aorus Elite
Cooling	ARCTIC Freezer 34 eSports DUO
Memory	Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR4 3200MHz CL16 ( 2 x 8GB )
Video Card(s)	Gigabyte GTX 1060 6GB
Storage	ADATA SX8200 PRO 256GB
Display(s)	Acer V246HL
Case	Zalman Z3 Plus
Power Supply	Sirtec High Power Plus 500W
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Processor	8700k - delid - 5Ghz
Motherboard	ASUS Maximus X Hero
Cooling	Noctua NH-D15
Memory	Corsair Vengence LPX 32GB
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Power Supply	EVGA SuperNOVA 750w
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