The following link should help. Click on Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, Computer Management, then Disk Management. The drive has to be Initialized then formatted. You should see it and be able to set it up per the link below.
Thanks but already tried that. There must be something programmed by Dell to refuse to recognise SanDisk products. :( I have also tried a using a USB caddy; plugging in the SanDisk via USB makes the correct beeps but it is not shown in Windows; a simple swap to a Seagate HD in the caddy shows up fine. **bleep**, that is annoying.
I got around this by setting disk mode in Bios to raid (was ahcp) as default, fitted both disk to sata and installed win 10 from USB stick.
It appears the computer assumes that the 2 disks to are to be used in raid mode, I'm guessing if bios disk option was not set to raid, it would configure two separate disks.
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The following link should help. Click on Control Panel, then Administrative Tools, Computer Management, then Disk Management. The drive has to be Initialized then formatted. You should see it and be able to set it up per the link below.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2871914/ssd-recognized-bios-windows.html
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For any one facing the same problem.
I got around this by setting disk mode in Bios to raid (was ahcp) as default, fitted both disk to sata and installed win 10 from USB stick.
It appears the computer assumes that the 2 disks to are to be used in raid mode, I'm guessing if bios disk option was not set to raid, it would configure two separate disks.