Unable to see NVME M.2 SSD

Hi, I have installed a new drive in my computer and are unable to find it in the Manjaro live media USB. My old M.2 NVME SSD was found with no problems but this one is not seen. I haven’t changed any BIOS options since I installed the new drive. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks!

Output of inxi --admin --verbosity=7 --filter --width
System:
  Kernel: 5.13.19-2-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC
  misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_GNOMEM_2116 quiet
  systemd.show_status=1 driver=nonfree nouveau.modeset=0 i915.modeset=1
  radeon.modeset=1
  Desktop: GNOME 40.5 tk: GTK 3.24.30 wm: gnome-shell dm: GDM 40.1
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Dell product: G3 3579 v: N/A serial: <filter> Chassis:
  type: 10 serial: <filter>
  Mobo: Dell model: 0JYXHN v: A00 serial: <filter> UEFI: Dell v: 1.17.0
  date: 09/03/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 21.8 Wh (61.8%) condition: 35.3/56.0 Wh (63.1%)
  volts: 16.4 min: 15.2 model: Samsung SDI DELL W7NKD97 type: Li-ion
  serial: <filter> status: Charging
Memory:
  RAM: total: 7.63 GiB used: 3.2 GiB (41.9%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required.
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10)
  microcode: EA cache: L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 36812
  Speed: 1794 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1794 2: 1358
  3: 898 4: 800 5: 800 6: 1601 7: 800 8: 800
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept ept_ad erms est
  f16c flexpriority flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window
  hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm
  mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat
  pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts
  rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1
  sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt
  xsaves xtopology xtpr
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
  Type: l1tf
  mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
  Type: spec_store_bypass
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Dell
  driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Dell
  driver: nvidia v: 470.63.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
  chip-ID: 10de:1c8c class-ID: 0302
  Device-3: Sunplus Innovation Integrated_Webcam_HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 1bcf:28c1 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.13 compositor: gnome-shell driver:
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia alternate: fbdev,nouveau,nv,vesa
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 630 (CFL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.3
  direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Dell driver: snd_hda_intel
  v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci_intel_cnl bus-ID: 00:1f.3
  chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107GL High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0fb9 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.13.19-2-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: no
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
  bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:a370 class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
  vendor: Dell driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
  IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth 9460/9560 Jefferson Peak (JfP) type: USB
  driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-14:6 chip-ID: 8087:0aaa class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
Not an ARRAY reference at /usr/bin/inxi line 16007.
Output of lsblk
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0    7:0    0 125.4M  1 loop /run/miso/sfs/livefs
loop1    7:1    0   582M  1 loop /run/miso/sfs/mhwdfs
loop2    7:2    0 943.5M  1 loop /run/miso/sfs/desktopfs
loop3    7:3    0 743.4M  1 loop /run/miso/sfs/rootfs
sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   128M  0 part 
└─sda2   8:2    0 931.4G  0 part 
sdb      8:16   1  29.3G  0 disk /run/miso/bootmnt
├─sdb1   8:17   1   2.4G  0 part 
└─sdb2   8:18   1     4M  0 part 

I had this issue with my NVME SSD, only solution I found was ‘initializing’ the SSD from Windows. If nobody comes with a smart Linux thing to do, maybe try with a Windows boot CD.

It’s currently running Windows 10 as I had to do some stuff with it and it was quicker to install Windows 10 and some of the software only worked with Windows.

Try kernel 5.15 maybe?

Could you check if AHCI mode is enabled at your UEFI? Maybe it has been reset? Maybe it needs to be re-enabled…

Another option is to run this as root in the live environment

modprobe -r vmd && modprobe vmd

I think the module has been added recently - and so it may lack on older ISOs.

That might work as I had a BIOS update out of the blue, Thanks Windows. I don’t think none of the options reset but I’ll try anyway

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