- Jun 23, 2012
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Hi, I have had a sabrent rocket gen 4 1tb nvme ssd in my top slot (Gigabyte x570 aorus elite) motherboard for almost 3 years, I recently decided to purchase a 4tb crucial m2 nvme for more storage and planned to put this in the 2nd nvme slot. I didn't have a standoff screw so haven't put that in yet, but I did dust out my PC using some compressed air, brush. After switching it back on, the BIOS said something about being reset, I thought ok no big deal but the system booted into "Preparing Automatic Repair" and showed "How do you want to repair Windows 10".
The sabrent rocket M.2 ssd is my 1tb Windows 11 C drive so something was wrong, turns out one of my older sata ssds has a win 10 bootloader on it. The nvme ssd no longer appears in the BIOS, just showing as N/A, I have re-seated it and no difference, I will try the other slot soon. I've done lots of googling but to me it seems like if it doesn't work in slot 2 then the drive has somehow suddenly died.
Some websites suggest clearing the secure boot keys, I am hesitant I'm not sure whether these are used as a checksum or something for windows to boot? Maybe they are gone anyway if the BIOS reset? I tried many options disable CSM, secure boot but no difference, I also updated the BIOS using a usb with latest downloaded from web (on another PC) I also have a USB drive with windows 11 installer on it, booted into that and checked list of drives available to install and in diskpart on CMD, no M2 showing in there.
My next plan is to try in the 2nd slot and pray that works. Or I could try the new 4tb crucial drive in the top slot too. Should I delete the secure boot keys?
How likely is a slot to die versus a drive?
The sabrent rocket M.2 ssd is my 1tb Windows 11 C drive so something was wrong, turns out one of my older sata ssds has a win 10 bootloader on it. The nvme ssd no longer appears in the BIOS, just showing as N/A, I have re-seated it and no difference, I will try the other slot soon. I've done lots of googling but to me it seems like if it doesn't work in slot 2 then the drive has somehow suddenly died.
Some websites suggest clearing the secure boot keys, I am hesitant I'm not sure whether these are used as a checksum or something for windows to boot? Maybe they are gone anyway if the BIOS reset? I tried many options disable CSM, secure boot but no difference, I also updated the BIOS using a usb with latest downloaded from web (on another PC) I also have a USB drive with windows 11 installer on it, booted into that and checked list of drives available to install and in diskpart on CMD, no M2 showing in there.
My next plan is to try in the 2nd slot and pray that works. Or I could try the new 4tb crucial drive in the top slot too. Should I delete the secure boot keys?
How likely is a slot to die versus a drive?
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