Hi all, I recently purchased a Gigabyte AORUS Ultra B650I with a Samsung 1TB NVMe installed. Initially I’ve got Linux Mint up and going on it without issue but I am trying to switch over to Windows 11 for some gaming. When I go to install Windows 11 (or 10), the install media doesn’t see the NVMe drive. No big deal, I’ll just throw the drivers on another USB and problem solved. Well, for whatever reason, the drivers that I downloaded from Gigabyte do not show the drive nor do the drivers from AMD.
I did see in the manual, that you have to load certain drivers in order but it looks like that’s for RAID and I’m not trying to do a RAID setup here.
Have I setting wrong somewhere or using the wrong drivers?
I would call Gigabyte customer support for this if the instructions are that unclear.
Two things to try in the meanwhile, try and download the latest and greatest Windows 11 version from Microsoft, and also, have you tried upgrading the BIOS? The B650I has a flashback button and you can also do it from the BIOS settings.
Hmmm… I assume you’ve made sure that the disk is readable in BIOS? It’s possible the m.2 disk is poorly seated or even dead.
If you try to boot up latest Ubuntu/Mint/Fedora USB, can you see the drive in there? Command: ls /dev/nvme* should list it.
[Edit]Nvm, I saw you already adressed that in the OP and Linux works. Then yeah, customer service it is - unless it’s something silly like you using MBR formatting on the drive or something like that. Sorry to make you disappointed
No worries at all. The bad thing is that I’ve tried multiple times to register on Gigabytes support page and just to get an generic error that doesn’t let me register haha.
But yea Linux Mint works fine. Thanks for the suggestion though!
Could it simply be that Mint partitioned the NVMe drive with MBR and you need to convert the partition table to GPT before you can see it in Windows? I know other people have faced similar issues with that:
Ok so interestingly to me, is that I borrowed a Windows machine from a friend and wrote the same ISO I was using before to my USB drive using Rufus. For whatever reason, this worked. I’m guessing you were right in that it was a GPT/UEFI thing but I wouldn’t have guessed that part was the issue. Especially since I used the media creation tool to create the ISO.
