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Hardware: Dell Inspiron 15 Gaming 7577, model number 7577-92774.

Question:

Why my Linux Mint 19 does not see my (Windows) NVMe drive?

I read on ArchWiki:

The Linux NVMe driver is natively included in the kernel since version 3.3. NVMe devices should show up under /dev/nvme*.

However, I have no device under /dev/nvme*.

Disk drives - Screenshot from Windows - Speccy Free:

Speccy

I have rebooted into Linux now, and am ready to investigate further.

I just installed nvme-cli package and this is its output:

$ nvme list Node SN Model Namespace Usage Format FW Rev ---------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------- -------------------------- ---------------- --------
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The culprit was in the RAID mode

If you switch, with special caution, to AHCI mode, it will show up in Linux.

The how-to switch to AHCI is out of scope of this site, refer to my answer on SuperUser.

I am not sure why Windows requires that procedure, but I have read it on multiple places, so I believe it is necessary.

On the contrary, Linux does not need any preceding configuration.

Current status:

$ sudo nvme list Node SN Model Namespace Usage Format FW Rev ---------------- -------------------- ---------------------------------------- --------- -------------------------- ---------------- -------- /dev/nvme0n1 Y7DF22FUFQCS KXG50ZNV512G NVMe TOSHIBA 512GB 1 512,11 GB / 512,11 GB 512 B + 0 B AADA4102
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