I have ASRock 970 Pro3 which has 970 NB + 950 SB, no additional storage controllers. It didn’t require so many of the other steps that people suggested.I bought 860 EVO 250GB 2.5" SATA few days ago (it came with the latest firmware) but there seems to be some sort of incompatibility with AMD 9xx chipsets. Some of the other statements are true: in BIOS Make sure you the SATA Operation mode is on AHCI.
In the BIOS make sure you have the USB port as the first to boot to see the flash drive With windows 10 loaded on it. I also used a flash drive with windows 10 on it. After installing the drivers, Plug the new hard drive back into your slot and start the installation again.
The Samsung site says no drivers are needed but this is how I was able to get it to find the hard drive during the windows install.
In this case, I used the old windows 7 hard drive on the same dell computer to load the drivers. You can do that by attaching a USB to IED or SATA drive adapter to the new hard drive and plug it into a computer that has windows and it will add the drivers to it. I spent hours on this and determined that my older dell computer with Bios (and not UEFI) just needed to have the drivers installed on the new Samsung 850 EVO drive before loading windows 10.
The error message wanted to find drivers and there was no hard drive showing to install the software on. I planned to do a clean install of windows 10 with the Samsung ssd 850 EVO. So many thanks to whoever can help me out. ), if possible), so I can get this laptop back up and running again. If you know what I'm doing wrong and know the proper way to do this, please be as detailed as possible (step by step (how to format, how many partitions to make. How can I install Windows 10 on this ssd? It should be compatible with my laptop, but I'm barely familiar with ports, connectors and motherboards and such, so I wouldn't know. I've also tried switching the ssd to the other slot (the latpot has 2 internal hard drive slots, for more info: Asus K75VM specs) and when in the second slot, I got it to work once, but after I tried to install it in the primary slot every other attempt, no matter which slot, it failed (contacted Asus about this and they said it matters which slot you put it in and the ssd (used as primary drive) should be inserted in the laptops primary slot and an optional additional hard drive can be inserted in the secondary slot). fromatting the ssd from the Windows 10 installer doesn't work.formatted the ssd to mbr with multiple partitions created (same result).formatted the ssd to mbr with a single primary partition (ntfs, no volume letter, same result).formatted the ssd to mbr with no partitions created (no bootable device found).formatted the ssd from the Windows 10 installer (can delete and create partitions, but not use any of those partitions to install Windows 10 on, got a message that the device should be formatted with gpt insteqd of mbr, which was already the case).formatted the ssd (gpt by default) with multiple partitions (same result).formatted the ssd (gpt by default) with a single primary partition (ntfs, no volume letter, same result).formatted the ssd (gpt by default) without creating any new volumes (no bootable device detected).used the included software (Samsung Magician, Samsung Data Transfer) to copy everything from the intenal hdd to the ssd and then switching them out (no bootable device detected).Here's what I've done so far (with no success): I've been trying to install Windows 10 on it (legal version, from bootable usb, clean install), but it doesn't seem to work, no matter what I try. I recently decided to revitalise my old Asus K75VM laptop (± 7years old now) by switching from the original (broken) HDD to a Samsung 850 EVO SSD, and I'm at a loss.