Hi
I have a Lenovo ThinkCentere M900 - posted on the Lenovo forum - no reply
I am having really big issues trying to get my ThinkCentre m900 to initialize my Samsung V-Nand SSD 970 Evo NVMe M.2 drive 500gb - via an Orico 16 slot Expansion Card in the bottom PCIe slot.
I've spent around 35 hours this week trying to solve this - I can not find one single case online where someone else has the same problem
The M.2 drive Shows up in Device Manager and in Control Panel > storage Spaces as well as BIOS
But it won't show up in Disk Manager, EaseUS Partition Master or SAMSUNG Magician
I have windows 10 as my OS on a Sata SSD - I have to re-install windows fresh to be able to see the M.2 drive in Disk Manager
But when I click the DISK UNKNOWN box to initialize I get an X ERROR saying 'Incorrect Function'
Then after doing that - Disk Manager will not open - same with EaseUS Partition Master
And the computer goes into a loop where it won't shut down - I have to pull out the power plug
When putting the power back on - it returns to the same loop
I can stop this by removing the M.2 from the PCIe slot
But windows must be re-installed fresh again for me to have another shot at this
Ultimately I want to use the Evo M.2 for my OS
But I can't even initialize it at all.
I have even made a Rufus UEFI Boot flash USB
But that does not work - when I get up to the part on the install where it asks 'WHERE DO YOU WANT TO INSTALL WINDOWS?' (with all drives unplugged except for the Evo M.2) there is no drive showing and it asks for my disk drivers - so I can't install Windows10 onto the Evo M.2
Is there a GENIUS out there who can tell me is it is possible to use this drive?
I have many screenshots of all errors etc
I have a Lenovo ThinkCentere M900 - posted on the Lenovo forum - no reply
I am having really big issues trying to get my ThinkCentre m900 to initialize my Samsung V-Nand SSD 970 Evo NVMe M.2 drive 500gb - via an Orico 16 slot Expansion Card in the bottom PCIe slot.
I've spent around 35 hours this week trying to solve this - I can not find one single case online where someone else has the same problem
The M.2 drive Shows up in Device Manager and in Control Panel > storage Spaces as well as BIOS
But it won't show up in Disk Manager, EaseUS Partition Master or SAMSUNG Magician
I have windows 10 as my OS on a Sata SSD - I have to re-install windows fresh to be able to see the M.2 drive in Disk Manager
But when I click the DISK UNKNOWN box to initialize I get an X ERROR saying 'Incorrect Function'
Then after doing that - Disk Manager will not open - same with EaseUS Partition Master
And the computer goes into a loop where it won't shut down - I have to pull out the power plug
When putting the power back on - it returns to the same loop
I can stop this by removing the M.2 from the PCIe slot
But windows must be re-installed fresh again for me to have another shot at this
Ultimately I want to use the Evo M.2 for my OS
But I can't even initialize it at all.
I have even made a Rufus UEFI Boot flash USB
But that does not work - when I get up to the part on the install where it asks 'WHERE DO YOU WANT TO INSTALL WINDOWS?' (with all drives unplugged except for the Evo M.2) there is no drive showing and it asks for my disk drivers - so I can't install Windows10 onto the Evo M.2
Is there a GENIUS out there who can tell me is it is possible to use this drive?
I have many screenshots of all errors etc