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Hi, I have a near new Samsung 970 Evo 250Gb M.2 Drive with which I am having problems. My motherboard is a Z370 Gigabyte Aorus Ultra Gaming 2.0 and I modified the Bios to accomodate the M.2 drive. First I disabled the the csm module, then changed the  secure boot option and finally key management to clear secure boot keys. After this the Bios would not recognise the M.2 drive at all.  I then decided that I would install Windows 10 instead on a normal mechanical hard drive. This I did without any problems. I was able to see that the M.2 was detected in Drive Management and I am now using this drive for additional storage only. In the meantime I believe that I may have formatted the M.2 drive and this MAY have been one of the reasons it did not show up and even does not show up in the Bios. Now I want to be able to reinstall the Firmware and drivers from the Samsung website to try again and use this M.2 drive as a Boot Drive. Can I do this?, please give me some constructive advice to be able to undent my Very Dented Pride. THANKYOU  Regards, Laurie
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nobus

8/22/2022 - Mon
David Johnson, CD

firmware updates reside in nonvolatile memory on the device itself, Formatting the device doesn't affect them at all. If you want you can download the Samsung tools and confirm this. I would reset your bios and use the latest f4 update https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/Z370-AORUS-ULTRA-GAMING-20-rev-10#support-dl-bios
Laurie Longman

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Good to Know, but will this be the main reason that my M.2 was not recognised in the Bios considering that the motherboard has f1 version Bios?
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Thankyou to both of you. Each suggestion put forward was certainly enlightening to me and helped me get to the solution to my problem. Regards, Laurie
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