BIOS not recognizing Crucial SATA M.2 SSD

[Willnyc]

This computer is at my parent's house and I'm not there right now so I can't look again. But there were very few options under storage/boot options settings. This BIOS had the fewest options of any BIOS I have seen in my entire life - even in the Advanced tab. If there was something that would have made a difference I would have seen it.

When I googled around I read that HP hides most of the settings from the end user in their consumer line of PCs. I tried various ways to try to see these "hidden BIOS" settings but nothing work. I could only see the limited bios settings that showed up when I went into the BIOS with F10.

[Willnyc]

 Pranav16 had just changed the Slot Security Setting. This setting is already enabled for me.

This leaves 3 possibilities

Possibility 1: The motherboard doesn't support M.2 SATA drives and requires a MVMe drive

Possibility 2: The M.2 ssd drive I have is defective

Possibility 3: The motherboard is defective

I'll give it a few days to see if any HP employee will chime in on possibility #1 since the documentation online is not clear about this.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

My $.02 is that it is possibility 1 or 2, and I lean toward it being 1, since we know the NVMe drive worked for Pranav16.

I only give possibility 2 as an option because since Pranav16 had that slot disabled for some reason, we don't know if a SATA M.2 drive works.  It may have, had he known the slot was disabled.

Those M.2 slots are tricky.   Some support both SATA and NVMe, and some only support one or the other.