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Aurora R11, adding an NVMe M.2 SSD
I bought a WD Black 2TB ssd and plugged it into the M.2 socket. Drive manager sees the drive. I want to format it. Disc management and Macrium do not see the drive. I could find nothing in the BIOS to change to fix this. How can I get the drive to work?
markburv
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March 6th, 2021 08:00
Hi @JimmyJ67
Maybe this is an Optane configuration thing like here Solved: Changed 1tb hdd to 2tb hdd now Intel RST doesn’t see it - Dell Community
Just guessing I do not use Optane so not sure.
You have a spinner (Hard Disk) on the C drive?
JOcean
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March 6th, 2021 09:00
Just to be sure I understand, Disk Management does not show the drive as unallocated space correct? And if you are trying to install Windows 10 on it you must unplug all other SATA drives.
JimmyJ67
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March 6th, 2021 09:00
My C drive is the factory hdd. No other drives.
markburv
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March 6th, 2021 09:00
Device manager like below? as this doesn't mean much as my 1TB NVMe is working fine on my M2 slot.
Is there a WD Black driver installed?
JimmyJ67
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March 6th, 2021 09:00
Don't want to load an OS. It will be my D drive. Disc Management does not see it at all! Only device manager sees it, and says it has no volume.
r72019
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March 6th, 2021 11:00
If you're using the only M2 slot as a storage drive then where is the OS installed? Are you using an adapter or is the OS still on the 3.5" spinning platter drive (which is about 1/30 the speed of an M2 NVME PCIE drive)?
JimmyJ67
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March 6th, 2021 11:00
OS is on the original C hdd drive as came on the computer. Don't want to change that.
JimmyJ67
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March 6th, 2021 11:00
Yes. When I click update driver, it says driver is the latest version and is operating correctly.