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August 31st, 2022 11:00
m15 R6, compatible with a PCIe 4.0 SSD?
I recently purchased an additional SSD for my m15 R6 laptop and it will not recognize the drive. I can see it in BIOS settings but not when I open windows explorer. Is this computer compatible with newer PCIe 4.0?
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crimsom
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August 31st, 2022 16:00
Hi @M6Lamby welcome to this free user to user Alienware laptop discussion forum.
Support for Alienware m15 R6, Storage.
Alienware m15 R6 BIOS has acknowledged installation of the new M.2 drive card in the system board (aka motherboard). Now the windows operating system needs to assign partition letter and format the new M.2 drive card with a partition for data storage. Please watch following video.
ejn63
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August 31st, 2022 15:00
Yes, but before Windows will see it, you must partition and format the drive.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition-bbb8e185-1bda-ecd1-3465-c9728f7d7d2e
M6Lamby
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September 4th, 2022 10:00
Thank you, I appreciate your reply. All sorted. Thanks again.
M6Lamby
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September 4th, 2022 10:00
Thank you for responding. I got it situated. Good to go. Thanks again.