I'll preface by saying I bought the PC from PCS a few months ago and it has been working fine, minus a few connection issues.
I decided to buy a Samsung 970 500gb M.2 SSD last week, and after installing it (motherboard is an Asus Z390-P, so compatibility isn't a issue), it wasn't showing up in Windows Explorer.
I went to Disk Manager, where it prompted me to initialise the new 500gb M.2, which I did by selecting the latter of two options (GUID, as opposed to Master Boot Record I think). It then put the M.2 as Disk 2 (after my SSD as Disk 0 and HDD as Disk 1), I restarted the PC after that.
Now as I look at the Disk Manager, it has put the new M.2 as Disk 0, my SSD that windows is installed on as Disk 1 and HDD as Disk 2, moving the M.2 in front of the other two pre-installed storage drives... Yet it still isn't' showing up in Windows Explorer, and it says it is entirely unallocated, which I suppose makes sense,
Where would I go from here to get the M.2 to show up without putting the other two storage drives at risk?
I decided to buy a Samsung 970 500gb M.2 SSD last week, and after installing it (motherboard is an Asus Z390-P, so compatibility isn't a issue), it wasn't showing up in Windows Explorer.
I went to Disk Manager, where it prompted me to initialise the new 500gb M.2, which I did by selecting the latter of two options (GUID, as opposed to Master Boot Record I think). It then put the M.2 as Disk 2 (after my SSD as Disk 0 and HDD as Disk 1), I restarted the PC after that.
Now as I look at the Disk Manager, it has put the new M.2 as Disk 0, my SSD that windows is installed on as Disk 1 and HDD as Disk 2, moving the M.2 in front of the other two pre-installed storage drives... Yet it still isn't' showing up in Windows Explorer, and it says it is entirely unallocated, which I suppose makes sense,
Where would I go from here to get the M.2 to show up without putting the other two storage drives at risk?
