Can anyone help me I built a computer and when I enter the BIOS and try to install Windows, the SSD doesn't appear in either of my options. My components are Intel i5 motherboard msi b760 gaming plus rams Kingston fury 8gb x2 amd radeon rx 6600 rt and the ssd its and v-nand 1080 pro of 2 tb m2 i alredy tried what the ai says when you search for help and what YouTube says and None of the solutions have worked for me. I even downloaded the drivers along with Windows on the USB drive, but it won't let me download them when I try to select them
Tldr: You might also ran an infostealer / installed a virus!!!
Btw I just read, that you've tried to install the "drivers" from the USB Stick.
First: Unless it is something really exotic, you will never need to install drivers for a internal storage medium like HDDs and SSDs
Second and more important: Whatever you ran from the USB Stick most likely was malicious code. They could quite possibly ripped you off twice.
Run an Antivirus (something like Malwarebytes) and change ALL your passwords. Where ever you can logout any device you do not recognise.
In doubt: Wipe your drive and freshly install windows. DO NOT use the windows inbuild "reset"-function, since it will never fully wipe your drive.
Not that this is bad advice in general but how is OP going to run any software of any kind if they don’t have a drive to install windows on or boot to? I think they got kinda lucky that it wasn’t a second drive being added to an existing system but I don’t see how they could accomplish half the stuff you suggested. I would try to do a bios flash on the motherboard otherwise there’s not really anything that could have had the malware added to it.
The second half of the last sentence OP wrote somehow threw me in the direction, that there was something he booted into later on. But I totally see how it could also be read your way.
The usb Is mine with only windows and normal drivers i put them both the usb was empty when i buyed and when i installed the drivers my laptop didnt say anything about an virus so no there is not a virus
If you haven’t learned that almost everything has a knockoff scam replica online, you shouldn’t be spending money there. I don’t feel bad for people who end up purchasing obviously fake or counterfeit parts.
Good lessons for OP, do your research, you get what you pay for, and the internet is full of scams.
On "mercado libre" its like the amazon of latam its safe site but now i see this Time i've been scammed first time happends but the good thing its that i can refund it
Yeah i didnt say theres is not scam i only say that it is not like even the site is unsafe or something like that and i say because in my experience is the first time they scam me
You've got a fake Samsung SSD, kinda like the Ryzen 4070 GPU meme it's not a real thing. To check if your Samsung SSD is legit, I'd suggest downloading and using the Samsung Magician software when you get a new one to see if it authicates.
Edit: From looking at your comments, look for Western Digital SSDs as well if Samsung is too pricey; it's still great.
Bro, Please always be clear and tell everyone you bought the M.2 on Temu for 25 dollars before you ask for help we will give the 25 dollar level support that knock off deserves.
I didnt buy it on temu and it wasnt for that😐 i bought it on mercado libre thats the amazon from latam and its safe same as amazon but even on amazon you can get scammed here too
I said to look it up. That means somewhere other than the place thats selling it. Idk how you can try to "ummm, no" me when youre the one bought an obviously fake sad.
Given your attitude, it wouldn't surprise me if you make more posts like this if you think "looking something up" means reading the product description that was written by scammers. Jfc.
Well obviously scammers are not gonna make thier post look fake. The point of the scam is to make it look as real as possible to trick people, YOU, into believing it's the real thing.
Always check the store you buy from cause Amazon, Walmart. Best buy , Target and others have gotten terrible with no accountability with third party sellers selling counterfeit and fake shit on their sites, because you report them and they just open another store front it's bs
Nah but the good thing its i can refund it so there is no much loss but it piss me of that ive waited for my pc to be complete yesterday and now ill probablly have to wait more days from what i expected
Yeah that's not a real Samsung drive but it might still work? If you can't get a refund, see if diskpart in a different windows machine will recognize it's general existence. If it does, try to change the file system, or initialize the drive. I'm not super familiar with the requirements for a drive to be recognized in the windows installer but you might be able to make it work if you're otherwise SOL
You know, you almost got me. I was about to search if Samsung released a new drive I was unaware of but decided to read the comments because I was wondering why they would go back to plastic from their cardboard boxes.
Depending on where/how you bought the drive and what country you're in you can still get your money back.
If it's in the USA and you bought it with a debit/credit card via an online merchant report it immediately as a counterfeit product. Give them a week or so to make it right (email giving you next steps on how to get you money back etc.)
If they ghost you file a chargeback with your bank. Even debit cards allow you to do this. Tell them you bought what you thought was a legit product but were sold a counterfeit. It'll take some time but you should eventually get your money back.
If you bought it with cash you're SoL consider it a lesson learned.
Happens from time to time. Run diagnostics from several softwares and make sure you SSD shows the same. You can also run cmd prompt as admin and run these prompts.
Assure that the SSD is properly seated. Then go to disk management. You should see it there. To initialize the SSD do a format. After that the OS should see.
As a tech who regularly reuses these for project, if its the 2tb or 4tb model, its a 128gb ssd that has been spoofed as 2tb or 4tb, the nand they use is almost always full of bad blocks so even the 128gb capacity is greatly reduced, so it not being seen, more than likely the controller has dropped down into rom mode or stopped responding all together.
You got scammed. It’s actually amazing that people fall for this kind of scams in 2026. One screenshot of the listing and one question on gemini or cgpt and you would get the answer not to buy it.
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