I currently have a zx50vw Asus gaming laptop and i wanted to install a SSD. So i went to best buy and bought a V-Nand SSD 970 Evo Plus NVMe M.2. when i opened the laptop and inserted the SSD it is not detecting it. ive tried doing research and i cannont find anything that will help. so any help is appreciated.

windows?
in windows start search 'partition'
create and manage partitions or whatever it is (disk management)
see disk there (probably below saying unallocated)
click it, format.

This post was edited by Candyzcanes on Mar 8 2020 04:27pm

i did this. it didnt show up in the disk management

then im guessing its not seated in the slot 100% properly

will re-enter and let you know

You can also go into your bios menu to see if it’s recognizing that there is a ssd inserted so you don’t have to wait for windows to start up. Depends on what motherboard you have but I know some bios menus will let you format drives in bios. I know that’s what I did when I installed my second ssd.

If you haven’t figured it out by the time I finish lunch I’ll hop on my pc and see exactly where it is in the menus.

ive checked out my bios. im thinking my computer doesnt support NVME? only SATA?

yeah, i was just reading up on your laptop and turns out a lot of people are unable to use nvme with that motherboard. something you could try that seems to have worked for others is to go to
the samsung website and manually install the samsung nvme driver. if it still doesn't work after that, you're probably not going to be able to use nvme with your laptop. I hope it works though!

i did try that. it said that it was not inserted. so im guessing this computer doesnt support it

Sounds like it man. Saw a lot of others with the same issue and everyone with the exact model as you didn’t end up being able to use nvme.