G752VT: Help! Cannot Reinstall Windows 10! Ssd 128gb Not Found!

[UniversalWolf21]

Alright, so I was doing a bit of editing around within system32, things I've done before without a hassle so I didn't bother to make a restore point (I can already feel you guys rolling your eyes at me...)

Well, I restarted the computer, and when I got back to the login screen.... Constant flashing of gray and black.

That's fine, go into recovery options from boot, click on fix windows startup.... But it can't fix anything. I try to 'reset' the computer while keeping all of my files... "This drive is locked." I go into BIOS to adjust the settings in every way that would unlock it. Still locked. I give up and go for a full reset... "An error has occurred. No changes have been made."

I tried to completely reinstall windows 10 via my UEFI USB boot, and it can't find the m2 ssd now... But it shows up in my bios.

I took another HDD and installed 10 on there perfectly fine, and then went into disk manager, and the m2 ssd is not showing still. Then I tried Samsung magician. Nothing. Master Partition. Nothing. It's like the thing isn't there at all, the only thing that actually sees the ssd now is the bios, and that is only if I go under the raid list. Yet in the description. It says it is a "Non-Raid Physical Disk".

I don't know what I am missing, I don't know what to do. I'm on the verge of just sending this back and waiting on my replacement, but with school starting back up in 2 weeks, I do not want to take that chance...

Does anyone know what I can do? Because I've been researching for the past 3 hours, switching in and out drives and everything, and I still cannot get it to show up for installation. 😞

[KenGeo]

Well, i ran into the same issue, basically the same time as OP did. But had to register and wait 3 days to post. so i kind of forgot. This machine ONLY has a RAID option.

This is what I had to do. now keep in mind, I have a dell on my desk today (it reminded me of this thread) and the drivers loaded during windows install just fine.. Of course it didnt show the ssd drive initially, but loading the raid driver worked great. The ASUS would Bluescreen on loading the raid driver.

I believe the root of our issue is that the driver ASUS has for this machine was is a bad one. We should be ordering another soon and ill update if its fixed.


First ill start with why we use this laptop. We have techs in the field that need a high end machine to process data. This machine does this task very well. However, we HAVE to install our own operating system, which is Win 10 Enterprise. And (as of Jan 12,2016) you cannot boot to a windows disk, and install windows to the SSD drive as a clean install. I read all the forums I could, tried everything, even shipped one back because asus said it was defective. Absolutely not the case. the 1TB drive will show up, but the PCI SSD will not, even after trying to load the windows drivers. I believe this is because ASUS ships this in "RAID", without the option to change it to anything else, and mixed with a bad driver.

There are two work arounds if you need to do this. First, is to boot into the OS that was installed, run the setup DVD for window 10, and choose to delete all files and settings for a clean install of windows, this worked great for this model. The other way, is to install windows on to the 1TB HD, then clone it to the SSD, once you clone it, run windows repair.from your start up disk, just remember you will need the drivers (if they work) to load into your cloning software.

[dookooo]

Are we officially announce now that Asus ruin it up with the PCIE NVMe Raid option and drivers too ? . because if this is the case , what shall we do now about this annoying problem ?

[JustinThyme]

dookooo wrote:
Are we officially announce now that Asus ruin it up with the PCIE NVMe Raid option and drivers too ? . because if this is the case , what shall we do now about this annoying problem ?

Its not a question of what to do, its a question of what NOT to do. In this case, don't screw around with files and settings you are unfamiliar with and brick your OS without having a way back out of it.

Ive had zero problems from the drive configuration. There is always the best option. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

KenGeo. Im a bit surprised being in that line of work that you didn't know that ANY machine that was ever made where the drive is connected by a raid controller you must load that driver during the install process. That's been true like, forever. First time I did it was Windows 3.11. You cant clone the 1TB drive to the SSD, Well you can but then when you try to boot from it it would laugh at you if it could.

If you follow the UEFI boot guide and load the Intel RST raid driver during install it works like a charm.

[KenGeo]

JustinThyme wrote:
Its not a question of what to do, its a question of what NOT to do. In this case, don't screw around with files and settings you are unfamiliar with and brick your OS without having a way back out of it.

Ive had zero problems from the drive configuration. There is always the best option. If you don't like it, don't buy it.

KenGeo. Im a bit surprised being in that line of work that you didn't know that ANY machine that was ever made where the drive is connected by a raid controller you must load that driver during the install process. That's been true like, forever. First time I did it was Windows 3.11. You cant clone the 1TB drive to the SSD, Well you can but then when you try to boot from it it would laugh at you if it could.

If you follow the UEFI boot guide and load the Intel RST raid driver during install it works like a charm.

I'm fairly certain you missed the line where i said I had already tried to load the drivers. HOWEVER, the OS would bluescreen while trying to load the drivers. It did the same thing on the 2nd machine we received. So...bad driver.

I have cloned a 1tb to an SSD, you either have to be able to match the size or use a software platform (we use Easues) that can shrink the partition. I do it all the time.

[dookooo]

You cant clone the 1TB drive to the SSD, Well you can but then when you try to boot from it it would laugh at you if it could.

Actually you can clone the "partitions" from the SATA HDD to the SSD using Macrium Reflect , and it will boot perfectly !

[JustinThyme]

Have you done it on a G752 with raid and M2 gen 3 NVMe drive? If so you are the first. Please post up step by step instructions with screen shots along the way so others who have failed can follow your expert tutelage.
To date no one else done it, Myself included. The drive will clone over then fail at boot.

[KenGeo]

JustinThyme wrote:
Have you done it on a G752 with raid and M2 gen 3 NVMe drive? If so you are the first. Please post up step by step instructions with screen shots along the way so others who have failed can follow your expert tutelage.
To date no one else done it, Myself included. The drive will clone over then fail at boot.

This is resolved by running startup repair, with a windows boot disk.

[beststevie]

I was not sure if facts are known, because some were talking about AHCI and NVME at the same time.
Do you know a girl called stevie, Justin?

[dookooo]

well my own machine is on the way , and i think i can prove it .
Alienware 17 R3 users did that .
check this out :
http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club/alienware/f/3746/t/19659674?pi21932=2

[JustinThyme]

beststevie wrote:
I was not sure if facts are known, because some were talking about AHCI and NVME at the same time.
Do you know a girl called stevie, Justin?

Several actually. One that is very famous, Stevie Nicks
The OP is the NVMe 128GB SSD that came stock in the G752VT
While this chipset has a raid controller on it there is no functionality to set up any type of raid. There have been a lot of complaints of people wanting to set up to M2 NVMe drives in Raid 0 and its just not possible.

dookooo wrote:
well my own machine is on the way , and i think i can prove it .
Alienware 17 R3 users did that .
check this out :
http://en.community.dell.com/owners-club/alienware/f/3746/t/19659674?pi21932=2

Alienware 17 R3 has the Intel HM67 chipset not the CM236 that is present in the G752 series. On the alienware the drive shows up as a PCIe device in the BIOS. On the G752 it shows up as an NVMe drive under the raid controller.
When you do get yours and if you are successful where others have failed miserably (plenty of posts here about it), and did a clean install instead while loading the Intel RST drivers for the raid controller during set up, please post up a step by step tutorial with pics so others can follow.

It will take some doing on your part though if you are getting what you posted the DH72 model as the OS comes on the 256GB SSD and its easy as pie to clone that to a new SSD with any reputable cloning software, even Samsung data migration does it perfectly. You will have to first install the OS to the 1TB Spinner, buy another SSD then proceed with the cloning.