Samsung 950 Pro Installation

cman · 2 Apr 2016 at 19:58

I need a bit of help installing the drive in the title.

I can select in my Bios (Asus Maximus VIII board) as a boot drive, and Windows 10 64 can see it as a disk drive ("NVMe Samsung SSD 950").

I have installed the latest drivers from Samsung.

The problem I have is, I cannot select the drive in Windows Disk Manager to add a drive letter and use it!! I have wasted 1/2 day on this.

AOMEI Partition Assistant allows me to format the drive and change its label, but won't allow me to assign a drive letter. It tells me I have to do it via Windows' Disk Manager... which as I mentioned before does not see it (even though Device Manager does!!)

Please help. Much appreciated.

Danny75 · 2 Apr 2016 at 21:05

Have you tried using Diskpart through elevated Command Prompt?

Open Command Prompt (Admin)

Type:

Diskpart

list volume

sel volume *

* Where "*" is the number of the volume with the operating system.

assign letter = #

# Where "#" is the letter you wish to assign the drive.

list volume

Confirm everything is correct.

exit

cman · 2 Apr 2016 at 21:42

The drive does not appear when running Diskpart, as you've suggested.

Danny75 · 2 Apr 2016 at 21:56

Strange. All I can suggest is changing "list volume" for "list disk" and see if you have more luck, but I doubt it.

cman · 3 Apr 2016 at 15:10

Strange indeed. According to Samsung's documentation the drive should be installed - Samsung's "NVMe Controller" is under "Storage Controller" in Device Manager and is "working properly" and under "Disk Drives", "NVMe Samsung SSD 950 SCSI Disk Device" is present.