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Windows 11 doesn’t recognize an m.2 NVMe in a pcie slot after upgrade
The device manager indicates under "other devices" that there is no raid driver installed. Dell online diagnostics comes to the same conclusion and proposes a driver to install. When I do so, the drive in the flexbay is immediately accessible and works fine until shutdown. During restart a bluescreen indicates that the driver is not working and only getting back to the last restauration point allows me to run windows again in the above described state with no access to the nvme drive in the flexbay.
This is what I learned up to now.
The question for me is now, where to get a driver which is working under windows 11.
Dell will you come up with one, which is in turn passing microsoft requirements and will be included automatically in winfows update ?
For the time being windows 11 keeps telling me there is no raid driver for the nvme in a Dell T7820 flexbay.
Well, after a few weeks of experimenting myself, the only way I got it to work was to remove the SSD and reinstall windows 11. When that was done and all upgrades completed I reinstalled the SSD, now it finally recognizes it. Took me allot of trial and error to get it to finally work. I even tried the disk HP sent me. It didn't work either. I had to use the window setup from Windows itself, well all that did was format one of my SSD with all my stuff on it.
Suffice to say, remove the spare ssd from your computer, upgrade it or reinstall Windows, when that's done reinstall the SSD, it should recognize it then.
Good luck!
- Thank you I appreciate your answer. I have done this as well. Windows update cannot find any appropriate driver. Dell diagnostics tells me there is no driver installed and the one they propose leads to bluescreen on reeboot. I am working with the Dell user community on the subject which seems specific to Windows 11 since rverything is working with Windows 10.
Cheerscompletely agree, windows 11 apparently isn’t even in Beta testing yet, but still released.
when I was testing, I actually bought a powered m.2 NVMe adapter for pcie slot. It was just super weird trying every single combination then this eventually worked. HP was even going as far as using it as a test bench for them to see. Never heard the end result either. They still don’t know I solved the issue myself. I would chat with them and then at the end of the chat they’d close the ticket, even though no solution was found. Even receiving e-mails from the supervisor. I’d reply with photos of the bios seeing the ssd but not in windows. They never replied to my replied E-mails. so they didn’t help me, so I’m not updating them, lol
Loadie So are you saying that the nvme M.2 is an issue with windows 11, and you advice not doing so just yet. I just bought the Asus z690 creator board with 4 m.2 slots and wanted to run raid 10 1tb each hard drive. Loaded windows 10 no problem and then was gonna raid 10 but decided to load windows 11 and it errors, won't load? frustrating. I really don't want to pull the drives out to load the windows 11 to find out later the updates are not working properly as well?
Any tips on setting up raid 10? Never setup raid before and have no idea what to do to make it happen?
