Windows 10: M2 druive not recognized

installed another m2 drive same as the original ,windows dose not recognize the new drive. it is in the device manager but say it is not initiated.

have spent a few hours reading useless crapp what happened to the good old hardware trouble shooter.

Why doe Microsoft need to make problems harder to solve by sending you around in circles

keep it simple .is there a human out there that can fi my simple problem


Ian B

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backup drive not recognized

Hi,

As per the description, I understand that the external backup is not being recognized. I suggest you to follow the steps provided below and run the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter and check for status.

• Type “Troubleshooting” in search box and press Enter.
• Click on “View All” option on top left pane.
• Select “Hardware and Devices” from the list and follow the prompts for troubleshooting.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.

Thank you.

 

Windows 10 Failure - Ryzen / X470 / M2

I recently built a new Ryzen based system running Windows 10 Enterprise

The system has two drives, one is a M2 and the other is a conventional drive. The M2 is configured as C drive and contains the OS, etc. The "regular" drive is D and stores data / apps, etc.

After some initial trouble with the M2 not being recognized (had to relocate it to the first M2 slot on the motherboard), everything installed fine. The machine worked fine for a week or so.

One night updates installed and the machine rebooted and ... got the new BSOD. After a reboot, it ended up in the Automatic Repair process which also failed. I then attempted to go back to a previous restore point. Unfortunately, this also failed. (It
would show me multiple dates I could roll back to, but the restoration always failed)

After looking at the messages more carefully, I noticed something very odd. The M2 was showing up as D while the conventional drive was appearing as C. Even if I went to the command line and used Diskpart to swap the drive letters, on the next boot into
Automatic Repair, the drive letters would once again be swapped incorrectly.

I finally disconnected the physical drive so that only the M2 was in the system. Only then would Windows recognize it as the C drive. Unsurprisingly, I could now successfully complete a rollback to a recovery point.

Unfortunately the system still starts with a blue screen of death, but with a different error.

NOTE - The first blue screen indicated that files / drivers were missing which would make sense if the drive letters got swapped as it would be looking in the wrong place for files.

Before I rebuild this system and reinstall everything AGAIN, I'd really like some sort of answer from Microsoft as to why this is happening. The boot order in BIOS is correct and more importantly, the initial build through the Windows installer / partition
tool had the M2 as C, active / boot partition, etc. There shouldn't be any reason for that drive letter to be different when the machine starts up in Automatic Repair mode unless there is some sort of bug defect that broke this.

There was nothing 3rd party on this machine when it broke. I had literally just installed Windows, Office, Visual Studio and applied updates.

Thoughts?

I see others have had similar issues (from a couple years ago) which is concerning.

Windows 10 startup fails - drive letters changed

 

Windows 10 not recognizing Samsung Galaxy S6

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. We understand the inconvenience caused and will assist you.

I suggest you to run the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter by following the steps provided below:

• Type troubleshooting in the search box and press Enter.
• Click on View All in the left navigation pane.
• Click on Hardware and Devices from the list and follow the on-screen instructions to run the troubleshooter.

Also, I would suggest you to check if you get any options or any notification that the device is recognized in your phone when it is connected to the system. If so, then change the options in the phone and check for status.

Hope this helps. Keep us posted on the status for further assistance.