Hello.
I have a Samsung 950 Pro SSD in good condition and an adapter with M2 SSD to PCIe, can I use this SSD with a motherboard on the X48 chipset and install Windows on it? I just created a USB Bootable Flash with Windows 11 and tried to install it on the SSD (the motherboard in the BIOS recognizes it), but when I try to boot from the flash drive, I get the error ‘Disk error’. Can someone help me with this? Maybe I’m doing something wrong.
Thanks.
@wander
Welcome to the Win-Raid Forum!
Yes, you should be able to get Win11 installed onto the Samsung 950 Pro, because the SSD has an NVMe Option ROM in the box. It is recommended to use the tool named Rufus for the creation of the bootable USB flash drive. Don’t forget, that the OS has to be installed in LEGACY mode by using the Master Boot Record as partition scheme.
Good luck!
@Fernando Thanks. But Rufus doesn’t let me choose FAT32 formatting for MBR only NTFS, could this be a problem or will NTFS be OK?
@wander
The problem is the size of the install.wim (>4GB), but Rufus knows how to solve this problem by splitting the partitions. So the OS installation will be successful despite the NTFS formatting of the USB Flash drive.
@Fernando
Small update. So I tried Rufus with NTFS formatting for MBR, and when I try to boot from the USB flash drive, I get the message ‘Press any key to boot from USB…’, I press different keys, but it seems that the loading gets stuck at this window.
*I set the highest priority in the BIOS for the USB flash
UPD: I still couldn’t install Windows 11 from a USB stick, so I tried Windows 10 instead and this time I managed to install it on the SSD. Then, on the already installed Windows 10, I tried to upgrade to Windows 11 and after the seemingly successful upgrade, I started getting the error “A disk read error occurred”… It seems that Windows 11 doesn’t want to install, at least version 24H2…
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