Windows 10: I formatted my m2 drive and now It is not showing up

I recently formatted my m2 drive so I can Install windows on it and now it is missing in Bios and Windows

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How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!

 

New m2 nvme drive not initializing

Just bought a Samsung 980 m2 nvme drive. As an extra drive. I installed it into my computer and when I started it up nothing showed. I opened disk management and it’s shows with no size only “disc 0” and “unknown” “not initialized” when I try to initialize it gives me error message “A device which does not exist was specified”

It does not show up in other disc fix programs and I did the whole thing with chkdsk and attempted to format in command promp to no avail. I also tried a different m2 slot. No luck

 

Format an external Drive.

Hello Roger,

Thank you for posting your concern in Microsoft Community and welcome to the Windows 10 Family.

I would suggest you to follow the below steps to format the drive you are referring to.

• Right Click on Start menu and select Open Computer Management.
  
• 
  In the left pane, under Storage, click Disk Management.
  
• 
  Right-click the volume that you want to format, and then click Format.
  
• 
  To format the volume with the default settings, in the Format dialog box, click
  OK, and then click OK again.
  

Note: You cannot format a disk or partition that is currently in use, including the partition that contains Windows.

Hope it helps.

Thank you.