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Sounds like fun!
I'll try it if I can finish my work for today and get in some play time.
@TV2 -
Just chiming in...
I have installed a few system which have an NVMe and everything went just fine.
The partitions were created properly, as it was the boot drive.
May I ask who is the vendor of your Mobo and NVMe stick?
Also take a look at this -
How to Reinstall Windows Completely on an M.2 NVME Drive - Microsoft Community
Thanks.
Please - chime away!
The board is an Asus Prime Z390-A.
The NVMe is Western Digital Black, WDS500G2X0C
Thanks for the link.
Hi. Also take a peek at this -
WD Black NVMe SSD | WD Support
https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=17144&lang=en
If no go, contact WDC telephone support: 1 (800) 275-4932
I disabled CSM, and rebooted. No drives show in the BIOS boot priority list.
Reboot with the W10 stick inserted.
Windows starts up, finds the NVMe. 465.8GB Unallocated space. Nice!
So that answers that.
Re-enabled CSM, and then booted into Ubuntu 18.10.
GParted in Ubuntu sees the NVMe, and I could partition it there if I wanted. (I know that Windows wants an unallocated, no partition drive, so not going to that now).
Still leaves unanswered why Partition Wizard can't see the NVMe.
I'm going with because v9.1 is too old. NVMe's don't exist (until there is a driver!)
Can we discuss whether partitioning one of these drives (or any SSD for that matter) makes any sense today?
The 2 reasons I do it is
1) smaller disk images
2) faster virus and malware scans.
Yes, I'll do that. I need it to run all my old diagnostic progs, but keep it off otherwise (and always forget I need it when I go to run something months later!).
In Shawn's clean install tutorial he still recommends disabling Secure Boot. Is that still necessary?
It's not so easy to disable in this BIOS. I have to delete keys.
As long as the USB flash drive you are booting from was created with the standard Microsoft Media Creation Tool or manually using diskpart commands, then secure boot can be left on. And it's really simple anyway, leave secure boot turned on. If the USB flash drive fails to boot, then try it with secure boot disabled.