CAN'T INSTALL WINDOWS 11 (SSD NOT SHOWING, TRIED ALL ie_VMD+F6+RST... etc) (SAMSUNG 980 NVME M.2)

[elewan9]

CAN'T INSTALL WINDOWS 11 (SSD PARTITIONS ARE NOT SHOWING DURING WINDOWS 11 INSTALLATION, TRIED ALL ie-_VMD+F6+RST... etc) (SAMSUNG 980 NVME M.2)

(02:50 20-DECEMBER-2023)

I have tried all:- Intel Rapid storage Technology, vmd, rst, f6...; none of them work while installing windows 11 pro 23h2.

I HAVE TRIED 6 DIFFERENT PEN DRIVES, NONE OF THEM WORK.

I have created bootable media from MediaCreationTool_Win11_23H2.exe too

system info:

HP 250 G8 Notebook PC (6G9R1PA)
Processor 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-1115G4 @ 3.00GHz 3.00 GHz
Installed RAM 16.0 GB (15.7 GB usable)
Device ID 7B4014EC-0961-4E3B-85C1-D3AF96A4xxxx
Product ID 00330-80000-00000-xxxxx

SAMSUNG 980 NVME M.2 (1tB)
Partition GPT
BUS type RAID
STATUS ONLINE

Please Help me install windows in my hp laptop, if i knew that hp does this, i would have never bought from hp.

contact_ elewan9@**bleep**.com

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

What you have tried should have worked...

Solved: HP 250 G8 impossibile installare Windows 10 - HP Support Community - 8052309

You can also try this...Windows found the drive, but the person had other issues with the drive having been encrypted by Bitlocker.

HP 250 G8 reinstall windows issue - HP Support Community - 8935126

[BeemerBiker]

You might want to read this discussion by @Paul_Tikkanen about the 980 nvme

Since your 1tb Samsung does not have optane memory, be sure to select AHCI or AHCI/RAID in BIOS and not the IRST which expects optane.

[edit] Paul beat me to it.

[elewan9]

Thanks for your reply, i tried both links, it doesnt work. can i disable the vmd rapid storage thing?

[elewan9]

""be sure to select AHCI or AHCI/RAID in BIOS and not the IRST which expects optane.""

there is no such option. bios is updated. see photos. Is there any other help?

[BeemerBiker]

This for posting those pictures, you went to a lot of trouble.  I had looked for 250 G8 Bios simulator earlier but could not find one.

All I can recommend is that you return the samsung and try one of the following

https://drivesolutions.com/hp-l85364-005-512gb-pcie-nvme-gen-3-0-x4-qlc-nand-m-2-ngff-2280-value-sol...

-or-

https://partsurfer.hp.com/partsurfer?searchtext=250%20G8

I looked here for all the 1tb size laptops 250 G8 that had SSD and those two were the largest M.2 I could find.

This is a typical parts list for 1TB drive made up of two of those m.2 NVME

https://partsurfer.hp.com/partsurfer/?searchtext=6X0T8PA

note that an SSD adapter was used to replace the HDD drive as there is only one M.2 ssd socket on motrherboard

Sorry.

question:  Was the m.2 socket empty originally?  If not, what was in it?

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome, @elewan9 

Unfortunately, I don't know what the problem could be.

It could be that the PC doesn't like the Samsung 980 drive, but I doubt it since HP uses Samsung drives in many of their notebook PC's.

They installed a 512 GB Samsung NVMe SSD in my HP Envy 15 notebook from the factory.

Didn't your notebook come with either a SATA or NVMe SSD installed from the factory?

If it came with a SATA SSD, see if you can install W11 on that drive.

If you can, try cloning the SATA drive's contents to the NVMe SSD.

If it came with a smaller capacity NVMe SSD, see if you can install Windows on that one.

If you can't, that would rule out an incompatible drive.

[tk_srq]

@Elewan9,

My son has an HP 15-dy2xxx laptop with an Intel i5 11th gen processor, and I downloaded the softpaq shown below that contained the latest Intel RST driver (ver 19.5.2.1049) from its drivers & software portal. I used 7-zip to extract the F6 folder and placed it in the root directory of a Windows installation usb drive.

https://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp146501-147000/sp146929.exe

The installation setup displayed two sets of RST drivers as shown below (either driver displays the drive) and successfully installed the Windows.

The setup needs the following five files to be able to display the drive. 

Perhaps, something went wrong with the RST driver extraction process and your usb drive doesn't have necessary driver files. Let me know if you need more info.

[elewan9]

""

Unfortunately, I don't know what the problem could be.

It could be that the PC doesn't like the Samsung 980 drive, but I doubt it since HP uses Samsung drives in many of their notebook PC's............""

It already had nvme(different one), here is a photo i took, when i bought it in october...

[tk_srq]

@elewan,

You don't need to load all the extracted folders and files to a usb drive. As I mentioned earlier, the Windows setup needs only the five driver files to see the drive to install Windows on. The aforementioned F6 folder extracted via 7-zip contains only those files.

I suggest you place only those files to a usb drive and navigate to them during the "Load Driver" process.