SSD, Hard Disk or Partition not detected when installing Windows 11/10 First, if you are reinstalling Windows and your PC is normally booted up, your HDD works fine.

After installing Windows 11 update KB5063878, some people say their SSDs are disappearing from the OS or causing crashes.

If your computer doesn't detect NVMe SSD, verify the connection, change drive letter & format SSD, etc to fix NVMe SSD not detected issue.

Recently released Windows 11 24H2 updates are reportedly causing data corruption and failure issues for some SSD and HDD ...

The first was caused by update KB5063875, a relatively minor security update for older versions of Windows 10 and 11. This ...

Microsoft told Windows Latest that it's investigating reports of SSD data corruption/failure after Windows 11 KB5063878.

Notice how I’m not explaining any of the terms above? That’s because a regular Windows 10 user who’s savvy enough to replace the HDD with an SSD shouldn’t have to know what these things are.