Question Anyone know why my M.2 isnt working?

[Domthebomb3]

Hello all,

I recently purchased a 500gb Samsung 970 Evo Plus for my build and spent 3 hours installing it with no avail. At first i thought i might not be putting it in all the way, but i tried several times and it seems like thats not the case. It seems to be in all it can go. When i go into my bios, or even just looking for it on the file explorer, its not there, hence why i thought it wasn't plugged in all the way. If anyone can help me i would really appreciate it.

MOBO: Gigabyte B450 DS3H
CPU: Ryzen 5 2600X
Ram: 16gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000Mhz
Graphics Card: Geforce GTX 1070 G1 Gaming
Power Supply: EVGA 750w G2
Storage: Some random 1tb hard drive

Thanks,
Dom

 

[drivinfast247]

Some SATA ports share the m.2 bus*(not the word I'm looking for) . Read your manual and check to see if your HDD is plugged into that port.

 

[Domthebomb3]

Some SATA ports share the m.2 bus*(not the word I'm looking for) . Read your manual and check to see if your HDD is plugged into that port.

I’m not exactly sure what you mean so I’ll tell you what I know. My MOBO has 1 M.2 port and idk how many SATAs but idk what you mean by sharing a bus. I tried unplugging my HDD to make sure the M.2 was the only thing plugged in when I went to try and install windows and the only thing that showed up in my bios was the thumb drive with the windows installer. I booted it anyways and when selecting what to install windows on, there were no options. So not really sure what to do.

 

[Calvin7]

NVMe SSDs do not appear within the BIOS until Windows creates the system partition with the EFI Boot Sector.

Guide for NVMe storage installation in this thread:

Can't boot from M.2 NVMe SSD

I had a Samsung 850 SSD (SATA) with Windows 10 on it. I bought Samsung 970 SSD (M.2). Turned off the computer, plugged it in, inserted a bootable USB stick with Windows 10 on it. Went directly to BIOS and changed boot priority to boot from the stick. Then, I installed Windows 10 on the new drive...

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[Domthebomb3]

NVMe SSDs do not appear within the BIOS until Windows creates the system partition with the EFI Boot Sector.

Guide for NVMe storage installation in this thread:

Can't boot from M.2 NVMe SSD

I had a Samsung 850 SSD (SATA) with Windows 10 on it. I bought Samsung 970 SSD (M.2). Turned off the computer, plugged it in, inserted a bootable USB stick with Windows 10 on it. Went directly to BIOS and changed boot priority to boot from the stick. Then, I installed Windows 10 on the new drive...

forums.tomshardware.com

I tried to follow that guide but I ran into trouble when I got to the “Secure Boot” part. In my BIOS, it says secure boot is disabled. When I go to enable it, it says, “ Secure boot can be enabled when system in user mode. Repeat operation after enrolling platform key (PK).” I have no clue what that means and what to do. I tried just skipping over that step to see if it would still work and it didn’t so if you could help me out that would be great.