https://forum.asrock.com/ Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Web Wiz Forums - All Rights Reserved. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 10:45:35 +0000 Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:00:07 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://forum.asrock.com/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=14798 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_images/web_wiz_forums_black.png https://forum.asrock.com/ https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76798&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76798 Author: fairycakes
Subject: 14798
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 10:00pm

In legacy mode if I delete the partition and try again, I get "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."

Could it be a bios setting I need to change? ]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2020 22:00:07 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76798&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76798 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76797&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76797 Author: fairycakes
Subject: 14798
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 9:21pm

I've tried diskpart to do everything I can think of. Anything in particular you can suggest? And sorry could you explain "run from the prompt"? Thanks]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:21:50 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76797&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76797 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76796&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76796 Author: RLGL
Subject: 14798
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 9:07pm

Try Diskpart, also run from the prompt]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2020 21:07:56 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76796&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76796 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76795&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76795 Author: fairycakes
Subject: 14798
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 8:12pm

Some additional info -

This was when trying to install in Legacy mode, since when booting in UEFI I get all three of these in one go

"Windows cannot be installed to this disk. The selected disk has an MBR partition table. On EFI system, Windows can only be installed to GPT disks.

Windows cannot be installed to the hard disk space. Windows must be installed to a partition formatted in NTFS

Windows cannot be installed on to this hard disk space. The partition is of an unrecognized type"

Tried formatting to ntfs via cmd and it fails. Tried converting to gpt via cmd and nothing seems to change except now the disk reads as having 0MB free space? ]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2020 20:12:26 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76795&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76795 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76793&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76793 Author: fairycakes
Subject: 14798
Posted: 26 Jun 2020 at 6:25pm

Hi all, my hard drive died on me so I took the chance to upgrade to an M.2 but am having trouble installing Windows 10. It's a PCIe M.2 card gen 3x4, and it does seem to be recognised in the BIOS, but when I try to install Windows I get the warning "Windows cannot be installed on this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu."

My motherboard is a B365M pro4, bios version 4.20. Any ideas where I might be going wrong? Thanks]]> Fri, 26 Jun 2020 18:25:37 +0000 https://forum.asrock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=14798&PID=76793&title=cannot-install-windows-on-m-2-ssd#76793