Requires technical assistance for new equipment setup
Requires technical assistance for new equipment setup
I've never come across someone avoiding an SSD for their main or boot disk. That's essentially why they're useful—putting your operating system on it and using a bigger storage device. It's also unclear how this relates to whether the CPU is from AMD or not. Have you attempted to install the OS directly on the drive you want? Are the disks properly formatted and partitioned? The only potential problem seems to be that you're trying to use an NVMe device, which is likely mounted as a non-boot drive on your motherboard. I suspect the board expects it to be recognized as a boot device, which is the usual setup. I'm not sure how to bypass that without changing the boot order in BIOS. I'd remove the NVMe drive and connect the regular hard drive instead, then try again. Once the board sees it as the main drive, you can clear the CMOS before installing Windows. If that fails, it might be due to a bad partition or drive issue. I've faced similar challenges when installing Windows on a drive—had to manually adjust partitions and even redo the setup to get it working.
I checked for that issue and you might want to look it up again if you haven’t already. Consider following the advice given. Some suggestions include verifying that nothing unnecessary is connected during installation. It could also be a faulty thumb drive, an incorrect install file, or a problem with the drive itself.
It turned out the RAM was faulty and was affecting everything passing through it. I performed a scan using a program from a boot USB, which revealed thousands of errors. I replaced it with fresh modules and there were no more problems.