I'm set though, and hopefully this will help others that are stuck on the Fall Creators build, with a Samsung NVME drive. Under IRST I was getting about 50% performance (50% of the Samsung driver, which gives me about a 40% boost over the Inbox NVME driver), so basically about half-speed of NVME. doesn't use) the NVME bus, and then update to 16299.19 (with patch) went off without a hitch, finally!Īfterwards, I 'flipped' it back to AHCI, so it could run through NVME and re-installed the Samsung NVME driver. What did the deal for me was moving the drive into a 'fake RAID' mode, by enabling it under IRST. Nothing worked, and I was unwilling to trash my install and do a clean one, at least not yet. I got this to work, finally, after building custom boot media, trying some things reported, like disabling SMART, and more. Success/solution! I have the same system (more or less, same x299 MB and 960 Pro NVME drive). I have installed most Asus drivers as well as Samsung's NVMe driver

Is this behavior expected from an NVMe drive by Samsung? My question now is: Did something go wrong during the Windows install and might a fresh install fix my problems? I think it might be because Windows can't properly boot into recovery (That's also why Startup Repair doesn't seem to work either) Update using the Update Utility from Microsoft's websiteĪlso played a lot with UEFI settings (Secure Boot, CSM, Fast Boot, etc.

Update using Windows Update (Now it doesn't show the update anymore…).

One other thing I've found out is that if I restart using Shift-Click and then select 'Startup Repair' it'd reboot and result in the same error I get when trying to update. I mean, the 960 NVMe SSDs from Samsung are quite popular, why are there only a few old threads on the net? Made me think this might not be such a common issue. What boggles my mind is that I can barely find any threads relating to this issue.

I guess I need to install Windows anew to get the Fall Creators Update. I've found similar issues on the internet saying that that's just how it is with Samsung NVMe drives and Windows 10. ' 0xc00000bb – A required device isn't connected or can't be accessed' After that, Windows would boot to an error screen saying Yesterday I wanted to update to 1709 (Fall Creators Update)Īfter starting the update, it prompted a restart.

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