I have a new WD Black SN770 2TB m.2 drive. Using a fresh window 11 Pro 24H2 recovery usb stick ( downloaded from Microsoft ) . I installed win 11. This initially built ok but following an update I got a BOSD every time I started any processes. I read this was a known issue on the WD support site. I had to use the same recovery USB to build a copy of Win 11 on to an old SSD. Using the old SSD Windows boots fine and works. I formatted the SN770 and installed the WD dashboard app. Still using my old ssd as my system disk. I updated the SN770’s firmware to version 731130WD. Using the WD dashboard the SN770 is reported as 100% healthy and passes both long and short diags. I removed my old SSD. I then tried to install Win 11 again on the SNN 770 , windows can see the drive but when I select it (showing 1.8TB ) it says the partition is not suitable for windows. The disk has been formatted using windows disk manager as NTFS it is showing as a healthy basic disk, and it is online I can write and read from the disk .
The drive summary from the info icon on the WD dashboard is as follows:
Drive Summary
Model Name: WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD
Model Number: WD_BLACK SN770 2TB
PCIe Generation: Gen4
Link Width: 4x
Serial Number: 240331802454
Maximum LBA: 3907029167
IEEE OUI: 01b44h
4k Alignment: Yes
Drive Security: Frozen
What does drive security frozen mean ?
My System Details:
MB Manufacturer: ASRock
Model: B650M Pro RS WiFi
Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 7600 6-Core Processor
Secure Boot: Off
Operating System
Name: Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
Version: 24H2
OS Build: 26100.2033
System Type: 64-bit Operating System
I have also used the diskpart utility under the command prompt to format and prepare the SN770 that made no difference.
