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m17 R4, second SSD, Windows 11 not seeing new drive
Hello everyone,
Last Saturday, 10/23/21, I went to my local Best Buy and after some contemplation, I purchased a new Alienware m17 R4 from them. It came with 16 Gig ram and 1TB of M.2 memory. I thought that would be sufficient for my needs. Except however, when I went to download Call of Duty, it wants to take up 1/4 of my drive. Solution - add a second M.2 SSD to my computer.
Today I added the new M.2 SSD. specifically an Inland 2TB - 3400 MB/S read speed, 3000 MB/S write speed. I asked the gentleman at Micro Center if this would work and he told me yes. I came home and installed the new drive and when I go into the BIOS portion, the BIOS sees the new drive. However, when I boot into Windows 11, Windows doesn't see the new drive.
I assume I may have missed a step somewhere, but I would appreciate any assistance.
Maxx102
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October 30th, 2021 01:00
Update - after posting and before anyone responded, I did some additional research and found instructions to use the Disk Management portion of Windows 11. There I saw the second disk and through the program, I was able to enable and format the drive. I now have both the factory drive (C: drive) the new drive (D: drive). I now have access to both drives and all is well. Thank you for your assistance everyone.
ejn63
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October 29th, 2021 16:00
The drive needs to be partitioned and formatted before the operating system will see it.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition-bbb8e185-1bda-ecd1-3465-c9728f7d7d2e
AWX17
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October 30th, 2021 01:00
Sweet....haha....make sure you press the "Solved" button.
AWX17
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October 30th, 2021 01:00
This shouldn't be a problem if it shows up in the bios. That would be a problem.
So, does it show up in Device Manager, Windows Explorer?