NVME M.2 GEN4 Drive has dissapeared?

BriT · 5 Oct 2023 at 12:36

So wanted to isntall a livery to my MSFS2020 drive but it has complety gone from my hard drive list and crystaldisk?

Fautly drive? I have rebooted my PC but still not there.

mickyflinn · 5 Oct 2023 at 12:54

Does look like it's faulty but could try a different m2 slot to confirm .

Glanza · 5 Oct 2023 at 12:59

Can you see it in disk management / bios?

Luna · 5 Oct 2023 at 13:02

Bios or another system would be the best way to double check, I had a similar issue, the drive was fine just windows or any program couldn't find it.

BriT · 5 Oct 2023 at 13:03

Not in disk management, is odd was fine yesterday. Will check BIOS and re seating it.

Edit - Not in BIOS, guessing its dead.

BriT · 5 Oct 2023 at 13:25

Re-seated and is now back.

Werewolf · 5 Oct 2023 at 14:46

That sounds like it possibly worked a little loose (thermal expansion and creep used to a major issue with old push fit chips and unsecured edge connectors), are any retaining screws etc done up tight to prevent it happening in the future?

BriT · 5 Oct 2023 at 16:03

Werewolf said:
That sounds like it possibly worked a little loose (thermal expansion and creep used to a major issue with old push fit chips and unsecured edge connectors), are any retaining screws etc done up tight to prevent it happening in the future?

It's screwed in place with the heatsink that came with the motherboard.