X370 Taichi & 960 EVO M.2 Issue

My hardware is as follows:

This could be an issue with the m.2 drive itself. The way to test it is to either put it in a different computer or get a regular drive, load Windows on it and then see if Windows can see and use the m.2 drive.

If the drive is showing but accessible within Windows then it could very well be a bad drive.

ManannanMacLir wrote: My hardware is as follows: X370 Taichi R 1700 GTX 970 G.Skill 3200 RGB (8GB x 2)  960 EVO M.2 * * I understand this disk is not support on the X370 Taichi, however I have read other peoples posts talking about how they got theirs going with a simple plug-n-play. When I attempt to install Windows 10 on my brand new Samsung 960 EVO M.2, I receive the following message. "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." Additional information that might be helpful I have set the BIOS settings to their default state. The 960 EVO is the only drive connected to the PC.  This is a fresh install attempt. Windows (or anything) does not exist on the 960 EVO. BIOS detects the 960 as I'm able to arrange it in boot priority.  The disk is physically installed at "M2_1" as the manual designates it. There are no other peripherals or devices connected to any SATA or PCIe ports, except my graphics card which is in position "PCIE2" as the manual designates it. Although I am not extremely adept technically, I can follow instructions well. Any help would be appreciated, please let me know if I haven't given enough information.

The 960 EVO will work fine in any X370 board. Many ASRock X370 board users including myself use a 960 EVO as the OS drive.

If you can see the 960 EVO in the UEFI/BIOS, and in the boot order, the SSD is working fine. You are using Windows 10 which has a built in NVMe driver, so that is not the problem.

The error message from Windows 10 is rather generic, none of the things it said is really true. The hardware does support it and there is no disk controller you need to enable.

As said above by datonyb, NVMe SSDs require a "UEFI booting" Windows installation. There are several ways to accomplish that, they are not difficult.

First, what are you using as the Windows 10 installation media? An optical disk? Or a Windows 10 ISO on a USB flash drive?

Either way, when you boot the Windows 10 installation media, go into the UEFI/BIOS, Advanced Mode, and then into the Boot screen. Look in the Boot order for the entry for the Windows 10 installation media. You may find more than one entry for the Windows 10 installation media.

You MUST select the entry with this format, "UEFI: <device name>", where device name is the optical drive or USB flash drive you are using. The entry with the "UEFI:" prefix will cause a UEFI booting Windows installation to be done.

Some optical disk drives do not support UEFI booting. If you are using an optical drive and disk and don't get a "UEFI:..." entry in the boot order, let us know. You'll need to create a USB Windows 10 ISO installation drive.

parsec wrote: ManannanMacLir wrote: My hardware is as follows: X370 Taichi R 1700 GTX 970 G.Skill 3200 RGB (8GB x 2)  960 EVO M.2 * * I understand this disk is not support on the X370 Taichi, however I have read other peoples posts talking about how they got theirs going with a simple plug-n-play. When I attempt to install Windows 10 on my brand new Samsung 960 EVO M.2, I receive the following message. "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." Additional information that might be helpful I have set the BIOS settings to their default state. The 960 EVO is the only drive connected to the PC.  This is a fresh install attempt. Windows (or anything) does not exist on the 960 EVO. BIOS detects the 960 as I'm able to arrange it in boot priority.  The disk is physically installed at "M2_1" as the manual designates it. There are no other peripherals or devices connected to any SATA or PCIe ports, except my graphics card which is in position "PCIE2" as the manual designates it. Although I am not extremely adept technically, I can follow instructions well. Any help would be appreciated, please let me know if I haven't given enough information.  The 960 EVO will work fine in any X370 board. Many ASRock X370 board users including myself use a 960 EVO as the OS drive. If you can see the 960 EVO in the UEFI/BIOS, and in the boot order, the SSD is working fine. You are using Windows 10 which has a built in NVMe driver, so that is not the problem. The error message from Windows 10 is rather generic, none of the things it said is really true. The hardware does support it and there is no disk controller you need to enable. As said above by datonyb, NVMe SSDs require a "UEFI booting" Windows installation. There are several ways to accomplish that, they are not difficult. First, what are you using as the Windows 10 installation media? An optical disk? Or a Windows 10 ISO on a USB flash drive? Either way, when you boot the Windows 10 installation media, go into the UEFI/BIOS, Advanced Mode, and then into the Boot screen. Look in the Boot order for the entry for the Windows 10 installation media. You may find more than one entry for the Windows 10 installation media. You MUST select the entry with this format, "UEFI: <device name>", where device name is the optical drive or USB flash drive you are using. The entry with the "UEFI:" prefix will cause a UEFI booting Windows installation to be done. Some optical disk drives do not support UEFI booting. If you are using an optical drive and disk and don't get a "UEFI:..." entry in the boot order, let us know. You'll need to create a USB Windows 10 ISO installation drive.

Parsec you advice was the solution, it just needed to be booted from  the flash device listed "UEFI" thank you so much for helping with easy to follow and concise language. 

Thank all of you for bothering to reply to a stranger. I spent the entire day googling solutions and watching youtube videos but none of them answered my question. Cheers!

ManannanMacLir, W10 Setup manages the boot priority just fine,  Please do not mess with it especially during install.  Use F11 to see the boot devices, boot the UEFI one and let Setup do the rest.  Enjoy, John.