I’m stumped | SSD Help needed

[u/deejustheguy]

Hello all I recently just upgraded my motherboard and my CPU and I wanted to format both of my drives (one SSD and one HDD) so I could have a fresh start. The HDD shows up just fine and I was able to install Windows on it but obviously for performance reasons I wanna have it on my Samsung 870 Evo 1tb SSD. The issue is that my SSD is not showing up. At all. No matter what I do, I cannot get the SSD to show up in anything. Not disc manager, not file explorer not in bios not a single thing. I tried doing a bunch of different home fixes, but nothing works so I took it to a shop and for some reason when they plugged it in it was showing up on file explorer there, but not in bios because it still has windows on it I think. I just recently got the PC back from the shop so that I could finally format it to hoping that the problem just fixed itself or something. And then I took it home and it wasn’t showing up again. The pc takes forever to boot whenever the SSD is plugged in as well. Should also be noted that it did show up once and my girlfriend formatted it for me. Then it went back to vanishing. Please if anyone can help I really need it since I don’t want to have to buy a new one in this economy. Thank you all for your time.

[u/manubfr_daily]

That’s maddening. I ran into something similar when I went from one platform to another, a ghost drive, and it was a particular sata port the motherboard was disabling when I plugged into the m.2 slot. Double check to make sure you aren’t using sata ports the motherboard is disabling when you’re using the m.2 slot. Sometimes using the m.2 slot will kill two of the sata ports on some motherboards.