Hello,
I want to install other copies of Windows 10 on to separate SSD's for testing purposes, but in the past I have always had problems when doing so with other drives connected. Either the installation of the second version of Windows just fails altogether, or it breaks any original installs. I have in the past gotten around this by simply disabling the drive ports in the BIOS (I am a new ASUS motherboard owner, having been a long time Gigabyte user).
I cannot though find out how to disable the M.2 ports. I believe there are options to disable the SATA ports (though physically unplugging these is a simple task), but no options for M.2 disabling. This is particularly annoying as unlike unplugging the SATA drives, I do not have access to the M.2 ports easily as I have a small case that is hard to get into and I have to remove the heat spreader first and then put that back which is fiddly in a small space.
Either I have totally missed the option, the option is there but named something alien to me or the option does not exist. Having looked through all the options in the BIOS, I am leaning toward the latter option. Which would lead me to ask... is this something that ASUS would add in? It seems a bit weird that there is not a toggle for the M.2 ports.
I am using M.2_1 port as that has its own PCIe lanes.
Thanks.