Windows installation tool not recognizing NVMe M.2

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Windows installation tool not recognizing NVMe M.2

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I have an Acer laptop, which it came with W10 pre-installed. I changed to Linux Mint, but recently I had to change it back to W10.

The problem is, Windows Setup Tool does not list my SSD as a drive, I have a blank list instead written "No drives recognised"

The SSD appears in BIOS, and I can boot Linux from it normally. I understand that Linux partitions in a different format, but Windows should still be able to list the SSD as a unreadable drive.

Can anyone help me on this? Much appreciated.

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Hello, how are you?

My name is Paloma B., I am very happy to be able to try to help you in the best possible way.

I understand that you had problems installing Windows on your disk.

I suggest that you perform the procedure below and analyze if the problem persists please.

First start the Windows installation and go to the screen to select the installation location, after that perform the procedure below.

Press SHIFT+F10 to open the command prompt;
Type the commands below and at the end of each one press Enter:

diskpart

list disk

select disk 0 (Change the number 0 by the number of the disk where you want to install Windows as listed in the previous command)

clean

create partition primary

exit

Click Update and you will see that a new partition has been created on the disk;
Select the partition and proceed with Windows installation.

I await news.

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