Install Win10 to NVME on Precision 7920

Question

I recently purchased a 7920 with a SATA drive bay and an NVME drive bay. I installed Win10 Pro on a 1TB SSD. Since then I purchased a 2TB Crucial P3 2TB PCIe M.2 2280 SSD.

I would like to install the OS to the NVME drive, but so far I've been unsuccessful. When booted from the SSD I can see and access the the NVME, but when I remove the SSD and boot from the Win10 DVD, I cannot see the NVME.

I read one post that suggested booting from the DVD, going into Command Prompt, running diskpart, selecting the disk and running CLEAN against the disk. When I do a List Disk, only the DVD shows up.

I'm not sure what the issue is.

Thanks,

Ken

mazzinia_ · Answer

Hello, you need the Intel RSTe driver , to load during installation https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER04996856M/4/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-enterprise-F6-Driver_558DN_WIN_5.3.1.1031_A05_02.EXE

kenact71875e · Answer

@mazzinia_​ thanks. Do you know how to load that while installing from the Dell Win10 Pro DVD?

mazzinia_ · Answer

Well, from the microsoft dvd/usb iso , before or when selecting where to install, there's the option to load additional drivers pressing F6.

Note that you need to extract with 7zip (by example) that intel exe file and save the extracted folders on usb to load manually .

kenact71875e · Answer

@mazzinia_​ I've got the Dell re-installation DVD.

mazzinia_ · Answer

It should have the same kind of option

kenact71875e · Answer

@mazzinia_​ no luck. The DVD doesn't get to an install screen. It only gives a reset option. But, cheated. I used Clonezilla to clone my 1TB SSD to my 2TB NVME. It works, as long as you have a bootable drive.

mazzinia_ · Answer

@kenact71875e​ That's indeed an option

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Install Win10 to NVME on Precision 7920

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