Issue with installing or booting Windows on an M.2 SSD when it appears in the BIOS?
Issue with installing or booting Windows on an M.2 SSD when it appears in the BIOS?
Hello,
I recently installed a new computer and am facing issues with the M2 SSD. Initially, I used only that SSD (Lexar NM790 SSD 1To M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4x4 NVMe 1.4) in the M2_1 slot, but during Windows installation it would crash despite BIOS indicating everything was working. I then tried a 500GB SATA SSD and successfully got Windows running there. After that, I managed to boot Windows on the M2, but noticed the EFI system was only active on SATA—there were two bootable windows, one for SATA and one for M2, but no EFI on the M2. I followed a tutorial to set up or copy the EFI system on the M2, but still couldn’t boot from BIOS, as it didn’t appear in the bootable device list. Do you have any suggestions on how to resolve this?
It might be a faulty NVMe drive. The BIOS detects it, but Windows encounters issues which could indicate the problem. Your system includes an SSD tester? What type of motherboard do you have? NVMe drives aren't listed in SATA configurations since they use PCIe. Power off the SSD and run Crystaldiskinfo - blue icons - https://crystalmark.info/en/ to automatically scan and check available drives.
It includes an SSD tester. When starting from SATA, the m.2 SSD functions perfectly normally. It seems to operate as expected.