NVMe PCIe drive installation

Now it is showing and allowing me to format...

Okay!  I've got a new drive.

Thanks for the Disk Management Utility suggestion.  I haven't had to mess with that for many years.  Strange that Plextor's support person couldn't have suggested that.

It does not show in Disk Management Utility, only my SSD Boot drive and HDD

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crduke1 wrote:

 

Thanks for the Disk Management Utility suggestion. ...  Strange that Plextor's support person couldn't have suggested that.

For sure because that is pretty basic stuff.
 
Glad you accomplished what you set-out to do. However, the Aurora-R6 would be much faster and generally "snappier" with the Windows-OS installed on and booting from the M.2-NVMe SSD. If 256gb or larger, it will also hold all your "programs" and a fair amount of games. 

It is booting from the M.2 drive, and I am using that for many of my core programs (MS Office, Photoshop, Lightroom, etc), but I have to admit that I do acquire too many games and I wanted a bit more space dedicated to that. This Plextor drive is also NVMe and mounted on the PCIe bus and not SATA, so it is plenty fast.

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crduke1 wrote:

1. It is booting from the M.2 drive, and I am using that for many of my core programs (MS Office, Photoshop, Lightroom, etc),

2. This Plextor drive is also NVMe and mounted on the PCIe bus and not SATA, so it is plenty fast.

 

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1. Oh, ok. On the motherboard. Good ... that's all I wanted to mention since you obviously like speed and performance.

2. Oh, right ... on a PCIe Add-in card and then inserted into one of the lower PCIe slots, huh. Good idea.