Timeline for Windows installation does not recognize the SSD drive
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| Mar 31, 2023 at 12:22 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Mar 31, 2023 at 8:56 | answer | added | Electrocode | timeline score: 0 | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 8:41 | comment | added | Electrocode | I entered with GParted and created an NTFS partition for half of the disk, leaving the other half unallocated. When I booted with a Windows installation USB and ran "list disk" in the terminal, it didn't recognize the disk, only showing the USB drive. | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 8:27 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 |
So you should 1) check whether the disk shows up at all in diskmgmt.msc (roughly the Windows equivalent of GParted), and if it does not, then 2) check whether it shows up in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) – somewhat unlikely for it to be completely missing from there, but it might be reporting some kind of problem instead.
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| Mar 31, 2023 at 8:26 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | The point is that there are multiple levels of an OS "recognizing" a disk of any kind. If it's an NVMe disk, it will show up as a PCI Express device first (alongside the GPU and other PCI-based things); then the OS recognizes it as specifically an NVMe storage device (loading the drivers for it); then it recognizes the partitions that were created; and only then it gets to recognizing the filesystems in those partitions (the whole "formatting" thing). You already said that it doesn't show up as a drive, but you need to trace back from that. | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 8:20 | comment | added | Electrocode | Could you please explain a bit more what I should try? I formatted the entire drive. If I boot Windows from a USB drive to install it, it does not recognize any drive. On another USB drive, I have KDE Ubuntu, where I can see the drive. | |
| Mar 31, 2023 at 7:59 | comment | added | grawity_u1686 | Does it show up in Device Manager (devmgmt.msc) at all? (Switch to "View > By connection" and expand down to ACPI and then to PCI Express.) It's one kind of problem if it just doesn't have a drive letter, another if it's not recognized as a disk, yet another if it's missing from the PCI bus entirely. | |
| S Mar 31, 2023 at 7:55 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Mar 31, 2023 at 7:55 | history | asked | Electrocode | CC BY-SA 4.0 |