Dead M.2 OS drive after Windows Update

WhiteGoldWelder

WhiteGoldWelder

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I bought an OCUK Gaming Inspire with the MSi B650 MB last summer, but after using it for a couple of months I ran out of time for gaming and left it off from early September to Christmas Eve. Finally got some time so turned it back on and of course Windows Updates needed. Left it to do its thing for an hour or so, but then disaster… was a DOS box open on the screen and an error from running diskpart.exe, didn’t photo it but something about partition not found. Rebooted and…. Nothing. Went into BIOS and the M_2.1 primary boot device was “not present”. M_2.2 was but that’s just a storage drive I added and not bootable. Swapping the drives over, the missing drive moved ports with the drive. So it looks like the update somehow fried the drive. Googled it, apparently not unknown. But nothing I tried fixed it so far (even loading old 2023 bios version as suggested in some MSI forums).

Is there any hope or is it new NVRAM drive time?

Plus, no idea where my Windows key might be or how to reinstall; last time I built a PC myself it came with a bootable CD/DVD. ;-) I don’t have any NVRAM ports on my other PC so can’t stick in there to see how dead it is.
 
WhiteGoldWelder said:
OK, new drive on way for delivery tomorrow. If the old one is fixable one can be a spare!
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SSDs have this random feature where they die, you keep them in a box for 5 months and poof, works again! Well, maybe.

Edit: by the way, surely this PC is under warranty? It doesn't matter how the drive died, it died, so should be covered.
 
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Have you used the Windows media creation tool to create a bootable USB and then used that to attempt a startup repair?
 
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