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Yeomo
Copper Contributor
Nov 18, 2025

NVME Drive Randomly Disabling and Re-enabling

My Pc running Windows 11 has a strange issue where, depending on its mood (apparently), when it turns on will completely disable an NVME SSD. I can have the PC on, the drive showing, read and write to the drive, then restart my pc or turn it off and back on another time, and then this drive is completely missing from Explorer as well as Disk Manager. This issue never happened on Windows 10 and has only started since the move to 11.

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    Dyloinan
    Silver Contributor
    Nov 27, 2025

    Use tools like HWInfo or CrystaIDiskInfo to see if the drive appears in hardware monitoring tools when it's missing from Windows Explorer. Observe if the drive reappears after some time or only after a system restart.

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