[SOLVED] PCI-E Adapter SSD No Longer Accessible, Yet Shows Up In Device Manager

[Tigerhawk30]

Hi all,

Through the kindness of a neighbor, I've recently added a 2TB M.2 SSD to my system. I went out and bought a PCI-E adapter and installation/formatting/initialization went smooth. Used it for a new destination for game storage.

The odd thing here now is that the drive no longer shows up in File Explorer. I have no way (that I know of) to reach it. I've looked in Disk Management to see if I needed to reinitialize and that drive doesn't even show up. Yet in Device Manager/HWiNFO 64 it is still showing up as PCI-E SSD with remaining life of 99% and max temps only having ever reached 50C.

Is there any way to re-access this drive that anyone might know of? It's strange that it just dropped off the face of the PC, yet monitoring bits say it's still there.

Thanks in advance!

 

[rgd1101]

windows 10 ? check storage spaces

 

[Tigerhawk30]

windows 10 ? check storage spaces

It is Win10 Home Retail, yes.

Apologies...I guess I'm not sure what you mean when you say Check Storage Spaces...? That said, how might that change when it was accessible for around a month but suddenly just kind of dropped off...?

Thank you!

 

[Tigerhawk30]

windows 10 ? check storage spaces

OK, if I'm understand you correctly, I went out and found the Storage Spaces part in Win10...I'd never heard of this before. My PCI-E drive does not show up in the Formatted Drives area.

 

[rgd1101]

is there a reason for a adapter card instead of using the motherboard m.2?

use diskpart to list all the disk?

 

[SkyNetRising]

My PCI-E drive does not show up in the Formatted Drives area.

Can you show screenshots from

Disk Management,​

Device Manager (disk drives and storage controllers sections expanded),​

Windows Storage Spaces ?​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

What model M.2 drive and PCIE adapter? Can you provide links to the products?

 

[Tigerhawk30]

@rgd1101 - My native M.2 port is populated with a 1TB SSD as the PC's C: drive.

Can you show screenshots from

Disk Management,​

Device Manager (disk drives and storage controllers sections expanded),​

Windows Storage Spaces ?​

(upload to imgur.com and post link)

What model M.2 drive and PCIE adapter? Can you provide links to the products?

https://imgur.com/J7MV21U

View: https://imgur.com/J7MV21U

https://imgur.com/8E9HmQm

View: https://imgur.com/8E9HmQm

https://imgur.com/9nfOqPd

View: https://imgur.com/9nfOqPd





This is the SSD: https://www.newegg.com/sabrent-rocket-nvme-4-0-2tb/p/0D9-001Y-00014?quicklink=true

This is the PCI-E adapter: https://www.microcenter.com/product/459002/iocrest-m2-to-pci-e-x4-ssd-adapter-with-sata-iii-support

 

[SkyNetRising]

That is not Device Manager screenshot.
Please show -

Device Manager (disk drives and storage controllers sections expanded),​

 

[Tigerhawk30]

That is not Device Manager screenshot.
Please show -

Device Manager (disk drives and storage controllers sections expanded),​

Sorry. Was tired when I did this.

https://imgur.com/wu7ty3N

View: https://imgur.com/wu7ty3N

 

[SkyNetRising]

PCIE SSD - that is your OS drive (where windows is installed).
There is no 2TB Sabrent SSD present - not anywhere.

Either dead or not connected properly.
Note - NVME drive like Sabrent 2TB Rocket Nvme has to be installed in lower M.2 slot on your adapter.
Upper M.2 slot is for SATA M.2 drives only.

 

[Tigerhawk30]

PCIE SSD - that is your OS drive (where windows is installed).
There is no 2TB Sabrent SSD present - not anywhere.

Either dead or not connected properly.
Note - NVME drive like Sabrent 2TB Rocket Nvme has to be installed in lower M.2 slot on your adapter.
Upper M.2 slot is for SATA M.2 drives only.

Thank you.

I'm gonna go with Dead then since it quite literally worked without problems for two months, and yet it ONLY worked for two months. Literally the first SSD I've ever had fail on me. Sooo...stay away from Sabrent...?