Samsung 960 Pro 1TB from about 5 years ago. Went through all the troubleshooting steps before replacing, so pretty sure it was not something else. Bios and a partition manager app unable to see it. New drive flew right up. Replacement 980 Pro at $60 quite at bit cheaper than original. :-)
I used RUFUS and install was successful. But I was still puzzled as to why normal install didn't work since it did before. Turned out TPM 2.0 was disabled in bios. I don't recall ever having disabled it, but guess I did, or something else happened. In my PC's bios, switch is sort of deep in...
Trying to install W11 on a new SSD. New SSD is replacing failed System SSD on a PC that had been running latest version of W11 just fine. Attempted to install from latest installation media downloaded from Microsoft website, and it tells me PC does not meet specs? Huh? It was doing just fine on...