Can't read M.2 NVMe PCIe drive installed in usb-c drive enclosure using SATA male-to-male coupler and SATA-to-USB-C adapter
I have a usb-c drive enclosure that has a M.2 NVMe PCIe drive installed in it. I am using a SATA male-to-male coupler to connect a mobo SATA cable to a female SATA-to-USB-C connector. However, after I boot up and use explorer to view my drives, the M.2 drive isn't recognized(I can't "see" it).
I know the drive is good since I installed it in my pc and it booted and worked perfectly.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rick


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I am not surprised that it does not work. You are going through several "incompatible" protocols. NVMe > USB > SATA. It may have worked if the M.2 drive was SATA rather than NVMe. You could try a USB C to USB A patch cable, which will not be mixing potentially incompatible protocols.
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Thank you Steve and Ian for your help. I will give those a try and let you know the results and mark one or both as solutions dependent on the results.
Thanks,
Rick
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Forgot to mention in the original post that I am trying to avoid having to install the recovery M.2 drives in my PC to test them, and therefore I am looking for a M.2 NVMe PCIe drive enclosure that I can boot from.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Rick
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Owing to restrictions imposed by Microsoft, Acronis cannot create a bootable "clone" of a system HDD/SSD to a removable storage. Definitely the case for USB, a little more difficult to be certain if you are using an eSATA connection (are you using eSATA or SATA port on the motherboard). You cannot make a bootable clone to USB NVMe enclosure. If you have two M.2 ports on the motherboard you could do so, or a PCIe NVMe card if there is no spare port.
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Ian - I have recovered to a M.2 NVMe PCIe drive through a USB-C to PCIe(same PCIe M.2 port as on mobo) drive dock, then installed the drive in PCIe M.2 mobo port and it booted and ran flawlessly.
I have SATA connectors on my mobo.
Thanks,
Rick
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Rick, thanks for the update. Glad you got there in the end.
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I've installed a PCIe card in my PC that has an M.2 NVMe SSD drive slot as well as a M.2 SATA SSD B+M drive slot in which I installed a M.2 NVMe SSD and M.2 SATA SSD respectively. I can recover to these drives and I can boot from the M.2 NVMe drive and check the M.2 SATA SSD to see if the recover operation succeeded. I can do this without having to uninstall the boot source drive and install the boot target drive.
Here is the PCIe card I purchased on Amazon: Dual M.2 PCIE Adapter for SATA or PCIE NVMe SSD with Advanced Heat Sink Solution,M.2 SSD NVME (m Key) and SATA (b Key) 22110 2280 2260 2242 2230 to PCI-e x 4 Host Controller Expansion Card
Thanks for everyone's help,
Rick
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