Windows Wont recognize my M.2 SSD
Sorry for the late response. I live in Japan and had to sleep
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The following is just my opinion but I will give you some background info to help you understand the situation.
BIOS is the firmware within the motherboard that is set up to deal with storage and boot devices. In this config, the boot information is stored on the drive. A drive is set as the priority boot device, the motherboard scans the drives for the boot information and then the computer starts. You will notice that in the BIOS settings, the computer does not actually know what kind of OS is installed on each drive or which drive has boot information. You can override boot settings and cause the computer to halt when you try to boot from a drive with no boot information.
We generally speak bios settings as a general term for motherboard settings in general though i think that is a tad misnomer.
In UEFI, boot information is stored within the motherboard firmware, not the drive. This has (alleged) benefits of starting faster, and it is required for pcie booting since pcie booting is not natively supported by bios.
When you connected that M.2 SSD to the SATA adapter, some proprietary drivers, partition tables and volume information must be installed onto the M.2 SSD. The adapter then emulates a SATA interface which allows your computer to communicate with the M.2 drive via the adapter in between. However the drivers. partition tables, and volume information, installed by the adapter may be proprietary and incompatible with windows.
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Back to your problem
Does the drive show up in "disk management" or device manager when connected by the M.2 interface.
I had a similar problem when trying to install windows on an M.2 SSD. This video gave me the correct answer. The hardware might not match your system but the overall concept should still apply.
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