Question Can someone tell me why my motherboard isn't identifying my M.2 SSD?

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Bad Skiddy

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Mar 12, 2020
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It's a Wacom Cintiq companion 2.

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My old SSD died and I've replaced with a new one, but it just doesn't want to identify it so as i result i can't create a new partition to set up my OS.

Here's what i'm working with inside (from a break down Youtube vid):
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and here's the old SSD and the new one I replaced it with:

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Any help is appreciated.
 

Bad Skiddy

Commendable
Mar 12, 2020
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1,510
So it turns out that the New WD drive doesn't want to read on any other PC I stick it in.
I guess I just got a faulty one from the batch. I'll update to see if my problem is solved when I get a NEW new SDD.