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I just bought an Acer Aspire 7 and I installed a 250Gb M.2 NVMe SSD to use as the boot source. I wanted to check that the SSD was working so I opened Disks and GParted, but neither of them show the SSD. I checked in the BIOS and the SSD is recognized there. I then used windows to allocate partitions in the SSD, but after that Disks and GParted still doesn't recognise the SSD. I looked at this question. I checked the GParted version and it is 0.30.0, so that shouldn't be the problem. I also started installing Ubuntu, but in the partition manager opened after selecting 'Something else' didn't show the partitions I created on the SSD.

How can I get Ubuntu to recognize the SSD so I can dual boot my computer?

Computer: Acer A715-72G-79BH

SSD: Samsung MZVLW256HEHP PM961 256GB M.2 NVMe PCIe Internal SSD - OEM

Ubuntu: 18.04 LTS

EDIT: The question 'GParted does not recognize SATA M2' (see link in question) does not answer my question because in the comments it mentions that GParted versions 0.24.0-2 included compatibility with NVMe SSDs, and version 0.25 worked. The version of GParted that I have on the bootable USB is 0.30.0 which is more recent. Also no errors or warnings such as Libparted Warning are shown when opening GParted.

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The solution to this problem was given by oldfred in his comment, also in step 8 in the question Acer Aspire E15 will not dual boot. The issue was in the BIOS the SATA Mode setting was set to RST with Optane. Once I set the SATA mode to AHCI Ubuntu was able to recognize the SSD.

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