Thinkpad doesn't reocgnize NVME drive

Fixing NVMe Drive Detection on a ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 with Ubuntu

I recently got a used ThinkPad T14 Gen 1 off eBay. It came without a storage drive, probably because it used to belong to some company and they pulled the disk before selling it.

I picked up a Samsung 980 NVMe at a good price and installed it. The BIOS saw it right away, so I figured I was good to go. But when I booted the Ubuntu installer, it couldn’t see the drive.

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