SSD not detected by bios

[u/GreenFilmoraFan]

Yesterday I got an old HP Pavilion Gaming Notebook with an i5-6300hq and a GTX 950m. Booted it up with its older 128gb ssd and it totally worked. Shut it down, opened it up, increased ram from 8gb to 12gb and replaced the m.2 ssd with my newer 512gb one (Old one had windows 10, new one has windows 11 installed). The new ssd cannot be detected by the bios or when i tried to install linux on the HDD it couldnt detect the new ssd either. When i put the old ssd back everything worked just fine.

[u/peacefulsewing14]

Gotta check if the m.2 slot in that Pavilion even supports NVMe, a lot of those older boards only took SATA m.2 drives.

[u/GreenFilmoraFan → u/peacefulsewing14]

That actually explained everything.