I followed this guide tried to run Windows 10 installed on USB stick to install it All of them failed.
After hours of googling and trial and error, I'm still stuck with no windows installation. loaded Samsung NVMe drivers from this thread patched Windows image using DISM tool by adding 2 updates. What does the Dell boot media creator actually do besides write the ISO to the USB thumbdrive? I'm kind of old school and I'm not sure I understand all the BIOS options nowadays. The machine the drivers will install on does not have an internet connection for security reasons. The windows installer environment cannot access the SSD in any way, e.g. I need drivers for a Samsung 970 EVO PRO NVMe M.2 512 GB drive. I've been using dd to create bootable media from the ISOs on the Dell website. However, I don't have a working windows computer to use the Dell boot disk creation tool. I have also tried three different Windows ISOs from Dell and have tried installing from different USB thumb drives and also from an SD card. I have gone through a long list of drivers in the windows installer and tried to install them one by one, and they have all failed. These are all EXE files, and in some cases I've been able to extract INFs from them, but some of them don't seem to have INFs inside. I have gone to the Dell website and downloaded a ton of drivers. However, I know people install Windows on a fresh drive some times and assume it would not have that partition. a problem with his database storage server and that he has Cisco, Dell, HPE, IBM, Oracle. Grub can see and interact with the drive, and I have deleted all partitions and formatted as NTFS.Įarly on, I do remember accidentally corrupting the small partition that I think housed some windows boot stuff. Windows ipconfig/all along with ipconfig /release as well as. I assume this means the windows installer environment cannot see the SSD.
If you have a CD, DVD, or USB flash drive with the driver on it, please insert it now." This could be a DVD, USB, or Hard Disk driver. I don't remember ever having trouble installing Linux, but the windows installer fails: "a media driver your computer needs is missing. I have a Dell XPS 7590 that has been running various flavors of Linux. This might be a long shot, but I don't really know where to post. As an alternative to the Windows native inbox NVMe driver, Intel also offers NVMe drivers for some products.