Partition an M.2 NVMe?

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.

TV2 said:

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

NavyLCDR said:

You don't need to go all the way through with the install. Click on custom install option. The next screen will either have the SSD drive listed as available to install on or not. Once you see that screen, you can quit the install and nothing at all will have been done to the SSD.

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.

TV2 said:

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!

@TV2 - @NavyLCDR -

Strange. Why was CSM enabled in the first place?
Maybe the BIOS should be set back to default settings.

Gremlins?