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H370-HD3 i7-9700 Samsung 970EVO NVMe Boot Problem

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shadowsports:

--- Quote from: 451 on August 16, 2019, 03:39:07 pm ---Thanks to you for the help  :)

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Please take a few minutes to review your MB manual.  Section 2-5 starting on page 30.

Install your m.2 to the M2M_32G (upper) slot

These are my recommendations:

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BIOS > Boot Option Priority Specifies the overall boot order from the available devices. Removable storage devices that support GPT format will be prefixed with "UEFI:" string on the boot device list. To boot from an operating system that supports GPT partitioning, select the device prefixed with "UEFI:" string.  Or if you want to install an operating system that supports GPT partitioning such as Windows 10 64-bit, select the optical drive that contains the Windows 10 64-bit installation disk and is prefixed with "UEFI:" string.  Devices listed here formatted GPT or that are UEFI capable will have a "UEFI:"[Device] prefix

BIOS > Fast Boot - Disabled

BIOS > Storage Boot Option > UEFI

BIOS > CSM Support - Disabled (The goal is to disable Legacy Boot or any non UEFI boot options)

Note: When booting from the USB stick installer be sure to select the UEFI:ESD Setup.  The media creation tool creates a UEFI compliant install stick.

Peripherals > NVMe Configuration - You should see your NVMe (970) here

Peripherals > SATA Mode Selection - (This) > Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration if you want to do any form of RAID later.  AHCI (Default) if you won't use RAID across m.2's or SATA disks. 

This should get you going.  Key take away.

CSM disabled forces UEFI boot process with no legacy device or option ROM support, enabled does the opposite.  More forgiving, doesn't require  UEFI, or GPT formatted device for boot. You cannot boot from a disk formatted MBR if UEFI boot is enabled.  (Trick) if you want to cheat, leave CSM enabled, use shift+F10 (diskpart) to format the target to GPT, install windows.  On a subsequent restart, disable CSM.  Windows will boot from the GPT formatted disk.

I do not see a secure boot option listed in the manual. Take your time, I'm sure you'll do fine. :) 

451:
Thank you Shadowsport for the detailed answer. I strictly followed all your instructions, but Windows does not start  :'(

I write the list of the operations I have done.
- Checked that the SSD disk is installed in slot M2M_32G (upper) slot.
In the BIOS:
- BIOS> Load Optimized Defaults
- BIOS> Fast Boot - Disabled
- BIOS> Storage Boot Option> UEFI (screenshot 1)
- BIOS> CSM Support - Disabled
(N.B. When disabling CSM, the "Storage Boot Option" option disappears and the "Secure Boot option" and related submenus appear below) (screenshot 2)
- Peripherals> NVMe Configuration (screenshot 3 and 4)
- Peripherals> SATA Mode Selection> AHCI (screenshot 5)
- Save & Exit
Return to the BIOS to check that everything is OK.
Now I can see the USB pen-drive as boot device marked UEFI (screenshot 6). It has been created with "Media Creation Tool".
- Exit BIOS
Windows installation starts.
At the first screen ("Select language, time, ...") Shift + F10
- diskpart
- list disk
There are two disks: disk 1 (USB Pen Drive) and disk 2 (SSD)
- select disk 2
- clean
- convert gpt
- exit
- exit
Resuming Windows installation:
- copying Windows files ...
- getting files ready ...
- installing features ...
- installing updates ...
- finishing up ...
I remove the USB pen drive
On reboot the computer enters directly the BIOS, because it doesn't find any device to boot from (screenshot 7)
I do not understand why :'(

I then returned to diskpartition and the "list partition" command on the SSD disk gives me 4 partitions:
1 Recovery 529 MB 1024 KB
2 System 300 MB 530 MB
3 Reserved 16 MB 830 MB
4 Primary 230 GB 846 MB
I remember to have read a Microsoft document that said that the order of the partitions had to be: System, Reserved, Primary and Recovery. The System partition that contains the EFI data should be the first, while here is the second. But maybe this doesn't matter.

451:
Screenshots 3 and 4

451:
Screenshots 5 and 6

451:
Screenshots 7

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