Question SSD not showing up in BIOS after Win 10 installation problem

Bigem_neo

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Hello everyone,

Yesterday, I started to build my streaming PC but got in trouble when installing Windows 10 from a USB flash drive.

The PC has two storage drives : An M.2 NVMe 500 Gb SSD that I put in the only M.2 slot of the MB, and a 2 Tb HDD.

After the initial boot, the SSD was showing up in the BIOS and I then chose it to install Windows 10, but got an error message during the installation. I then cancelled and restarted the installation, but I realized that the SSD had already Win 10 partitions on it. I deleted those partitions (in the drive selection window) and started the installation again. But when I got into the BIOS, the SSD was not showing up.

I tried to remove and replace the SSD in the M.2 slot, updated the BIOS, but nothing happened. The 2 Tb HDD is the only drive showing up in the drive selection window when installing Windows 10.

How can I make the SSD appear again as an available drive for installing the OS ? Thanks for your help.

By the way, he are my PC specs :
MB : MSI B450M Bazooka V2
CPU : AMD Ryzen 2600X
GPU : Gigabyte GTX 1080 G1 Gaming
SSD : PNY XLR8 500 Gb
HDD : Seagate Barracuda 2 Tb
RAM : Corsair Vengeance LED 2x8Gb @ 3000Mhz CL 15
PSU : Corsair VS650W 80+
Case : Cooler Master Q300P
 
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When installing the OS, you want only ONE drive connected. Here, the SSD.

Disconnect the HDD and redo the OS install on the SSD.
 
When installing the OS, you want only ONE drive connected. Here, the SSD.

Disconnect the HDD and redo the OS install on the SSD.

I tried this afterwards, but the SSD still won't show up in the BIOS and in the drive selection window when installing windows 10.