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Cannot boot from SSD

Anonymous
2023-05-28T06:39:37+00:00

I have an Asus G751JY. I went to sleep one night, and the next day I woke up to BIOS and the boot drive (m.2 ssd) dissappeared. I've tried everything from command line to disabling secure boot and fast boot and enabling csm. Reseated the drive. nothing. As it appears, the drive is dead.

Fast forward a few months, I bought a brand new ssd. Installed it. Installed windows. But the drive still isn't detected in BIOS. It seems like the whole m.2 connector isn't detected by the bios, as I can see SATA configuration option but no pcie configuration option. Now the weird thing is–as I mentioned–I (successfully?) installed windows onto the drive, which means it is detected by the motherboard, and even now when I use the usb bootable, the ssd is there. I've researched a lot but I can only find people with drives showing up in bios but not windows, not the other way around like me.

I REALLY need help with this. TIA!

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  1. DaveM121 891.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-28T09:56:42+00:00

    Please upload that photo to some cloud service like OneDrive, DropBox..etc and post a share link here so I can see that.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-05-28T09:54:44+00:00

    sorry about that. Pasting doesn't work either

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  3. DaveM121 891.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-28T09:49:07+00:00

    Your screenshot is not coming through, please try pasting that again using Ctrl + V, it should work.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-05-28T09:47:53+00:00

    1- that's where the issue lies. I've changed basically every setting in the bios, no result.

    2 - yes, downloaded it yesterday.

    Appreciate you help :)

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  5. DaveM121 891.1K Reputation points Independent Advisor
    2023-05-28T07:16:05+00:00

    Hi Omar,

    I am Dave, I will help you with this.

    1

    If you have been able to successfully install Windows on the SSD, then that should be bootable, there must be some setting in BIOS that s not correct.

    Start the installation again, and please provide a photo of the partitions created on that drive from the previous installation.

    2

    Are you using a USB newly created with the Media Creation Tool to install Windows on the SSD?

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