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Loadie
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Jan 14, 2022

Windows 11 doesn’t recognize an m.2 NVMe in a pcie slot after upgrade

Hey all,   Bought a new HP Omen 30L-1139 it has expansion slots for upto 3 m.2 SSDs. I swapped out the 2 SSDs from my old computer to the new one and everything worked as it should. I had this work...
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Loadie
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Feb 18, 2022

Rabasirap 

 

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!

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Rabasirap
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Feb 18, 2022
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.
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    Loadie
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    Feb 18, 2022

    Rabasirap 

     

    completely 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

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      Crash81
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      Jul 26, 2022

      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?

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        Loadie
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        Jul 26, 2022
        Sorry, none that I can think of! I returned the computer to HP and built my own. I’m still running Windows 10, but can easily upgrade if I want. Just not willing to take the plunge quite just yet, lol my new system easily runs all 3 of my NVME M.2 SSDs now.

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