M.2 Drive not showing up. | Fixitfixitfixit Drops & Tech | Page 1

cyan nebula Sep 27, 2025, 7:12 AM

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I was trying to install a game to it, around 2GB, there was like 200+GB free from this drive but it kept saying the drive was full on Steam. After restarting Steam, it kept saying that so I thought I'd restart my PC and now the drive doesn't show up under My PC or Drive Management (Partition Windows app) or Steam. Any ideas how to troubleshoot? It's a WD Black drive but maybe it's finally failing?

Spec List:
CPU 9800X3D
GPU 5080
Arctic AIO Cooler
1TB WD Black Drive <--- the one in question.

rain knoll Sep 27, 2025, 2:05 PM

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Do you have windows 11?

cyan nebula Sep 27, 2025, 2:34 PM

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Yeah

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The latest windows update as well

rain knoll Sep 27, 2025, 2:45 PM

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havent heard the nonsense windows caused with drives did ya..

cyan nebula Sep 27, 2025, 3:13 PM

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Nuh uh I have not, I read a little bit about it recently (as of last night)

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Apparently my drive is on the latest firmware so I'm gonna do a bios update when I get home Prayge

#M.2 Drive not showing up.