Helios 500 - stock ssd not being detected after moving it to slot 1

Hello,
very briefly, my situation is this: I wanted to install a second ssd (970 evo, NvMe) on my laptop so, after preparing a Windows 10 USB installer, from the BIOS, I switched Sata Mode to "AHCI", turned the laptop off and procedeed on removing the stock ssd from slot 2, plugging in the 970 evo in its place and moving the stock ssd to slot 1. Now, the new SSD was correctly recognized and I did a fresh Windows install on it but I wanted to keep the stock ssd for more storage. Disk manager app can't detect the stock drive. My model number is: PH517-51.

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ven98

Have you made sure that the drive is connected correctly. Both M.2 ports are NVMe, so you can try swapping the places of the drives to see if that will work.

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ven98

Is the SSD recognised by the BIOS?

Oro89

Hi, no, I can't see it in the BIOS either. Just checked.

ven98

Have you made sure that the drive is connected correctly. Both M.2 ports are NVMe, so you can try swapping the places of the drives to see if that will work.