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OddityZero
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After my motherboard bricked hard, I decided to go ahead and get a new motherboard and some other upgrades, including a sweet new 3700x and a m.2 intel 660p 1tb nvme ssd. After reinstalling all of my things, I noticed that my M.2 Wouldnt show in disck management, but shows in my Bios and in Device Manager. I can't format it because its not there, so that excludes the easy fix of formatting it in disk management. In advance, yes, I have installed drivers for the SSD and my other new equipment.

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Are you going for a fresh Win install?

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6 minutes ago, OddityZero said:

After my motherboard bricked hard, I decided to go ahead and get a new motherboard and some other upgrades, including a sweet new 3700x and a m.2 intel 660p 1tb nvme ssd. After reinstalling all of my things, I noticed that my M.2 Wouldnt show in disck management, but shows in my Bios and in Device Manager. I can't format it because its not there, so that excludes the easy fix of formatting it in disk management. In advance, yes, I have installed drivers for the SSD and my other new equipment.

Put Lubuntu on a live USB distro and boot from it, then head into Gparted. You can create a GPT partition table for it there. If necessary, you can soft-wipe it in the Disks menu first, but it's best not to do that to SSDs more than you absolutely need to.

 

If it doesn't show up at all, check your mobo manual and make sure you've got your SATA ports connected in such a way that the M.2 slot is usable.

I enjoy buying junk and sinking more money than it's worth into it to make it less junk.

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Just now, OddityZero said:

No

You should 

CPU:i7 9700k 5047.5Mhz All Cores Mobo: MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC, RAM:Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 3200MHz DDR4 OC 3467Mhz GPU:MSI RTX 2070 ARMOR 8GB OC Storage:Samsung SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 250GB, 2x SSD ADATA PRO SP900 256GB, HDD WD CB 2TB, HDD GREEN 2TB PSU: Seasonic focus plus 750w Gold Display(s): 1st: LG 27UK650-W, 4K, IPS, HDR10, 10bit(8bit + A-FRC). 2nd: Samsung 24" LED Monitor (SE390), Cooling:Fazn CPU Cooler Aero 120T Push/pull Corsair ML PRO Fans Keyboard: Corsair K95 Platinum RGB mx Rapidfire Mouse:Razer Naga Chroma  Headset: Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma Sound: Logitech X-540 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker Case: Modded Case Inverted, 5 intake 120mm, one exhaust 120mm.

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Just now, OddityZero said:

And why is that?

To avoid drivers malfunctions.

You will have a bunch of issues.

You are installing a new and different mobo and CPU.

You should do a fresh install.

CPU:i7 9700k 5047.5Mhz All Cores Mobo: MSI MPG Z390 Gaming Edge AC, RAM:Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB 3200MHz DDR4 OC 3467Mhz GPU:MSI RTX 2070 ARMOR 8GB OC Storage:Samsung SSD 970 EVO NVMe M.2 250GB, 2x SSD ADATA PRO SP900 256GB, HDD WD CB 2TB, HDD GREEN 2TB PSU: Seasonic focus plus 750w Gold Display(s): 1st: LG 27UK650-W, 4K, IPS, HDR10, 10bit(8bit + A-FRC). 2nd: Samsung 24" LED Monitor (SE390), Cooling:Fazn CPU Cooler Aero 120T Push/pull Corsair ML PRO Fans Keyboard: Corsair K95 Platinum RGB mx Rapidfire Mouse:Razer Naga Chroma  Headset: Razer Kraken 7.1 Chroma Sound: Logitech X-540 5.1 Surround Sound Speaker Case: Modded Case Inverted, 5 intake 120mm, one exhaust 120mm.

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