[SOLVED] 2nd m.2 ssd not found on b450-i motherboard

[GirikJ]

I just recently finished building my gaming pc not even a week ago, and i had installed everything properly. I booted it up, and went into the BIOS to see if everything was there. But when I was about to install windows, I realized only one of my 2 m.2 ssd's were appearing. I proceeded to install windows on the main drive in hope that I would find a solution soon enough.
My specs are ---

CPU: Ryzen 2 2700x

GPU: MSI Gaming Z RTX 2060

RAM:G.Skill Trident z 2 x 8 @ 3600

MOBO:Asus ROG Strix B450- i Gaming

PSU: Corsair RM(2019) 80+ gold 850w (overkill)

the one ssd out of the 2 that is supposedly failing is the Crucial Mx500 250gb m.2 ssd

 

[Lutfij]

Check and see which BIOS version you'r currently on for your motherboard. If you have updates pending, manually update the BIOS to the latest. Can you list both makes and models of the SSD's on your system and which slots they occupy on the board? A link to each would help two fold.

 

[GirikJ]

Check and see which BIOS version you'r currently on for your motherboard. If you have updates pending, manually update the BIOS to the latest. Can you list both makes and models of the SSD's on your system and which slots they occupy on the board? A link to each would help two fold.

the other ssd is https://www.newegg.com/crucial-p1-1tb/p/N82E16820156199


and the failing one is the https://www.newegg.com/crucial-mx500-250gb/p/N82E16820156176

i did try to update the bios once but when i had it installed on a usb and went to the tab to flash the bios with it, i wasnt sure where to select the update file.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Did you read manual of your motherboard?
Only one M.2 slot on your board supports sata M.2 drives (frontal one M2_1).

You have to install MX500 in M2_1 slot,
install Cucial P1 in second slot M2_2.

 

[GirikJ]

by doing that wouldnt it effect the temps a little bit causing it to get a bit warmer, therefore slowing it down due to high temps because the front one has the heat spreader with thermal pads.

 

[USAFRet]

by doing that wouldnt it effect the temps a little bit causing it to get a bit warmer, therefore slowing it down due to high temps because the front one has the heat spreader with thermal pads.

Temps are irrelevant if the slots don't support the drives in question.

There is only one possible configuration for that motherboard and those drives.

 

[GirikJ]

Did you read manual of your motherboard?
Only one M.2 slot on your board supports sata M.2 drives (frontal one M2_1).

You have to install MX500 in M2_1 slot,
install Cucial P1 in second slot M2_2.

i also did what you said to do and i swapped the slots that they were in and the P1 i still the only drive that shows up

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

So MX500 is on front side (same side where cpu is) and Crucial P1 on back side. Correct?

Also check sata controller mode settings in BIOS. It has to be AHCI.

 

[GirikJ]

It appears that the ssd is there but it doesnt show up as a drive in the BIOS under the boot tab, and yes AHCI is enabled

And i can confirm that the MX500 is on the front (cpu side), and the P1 is on the back

 

[SkyNetRising]

Create a partition in unallocated space (black color) format it and assign a drive letter.

 

[GirikJ]

Does this look right?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Do not use drive letter A: .
Use D, E,F, or any higher drive letter.

Why do you want to name it "Boot"?

 

[GirikJ]

Do not use drive letter A: .
Use D, E,F, or any higher drive letter.

Why do you want to name it "Boot"?

boot drive

 

[GirikJ]

boot drive

it was originally gonna be the boot drive but i couldnt get it to show up.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Are you going to reinstall windows on 240GB drive?
If yes, then disconnect 1TB drive and install windows.

 

[GirikJ]

Are you going to reinstall windows on 240GB drive?
If yes, then disconnect 1TB drive and install windows.

when doing, how do i remove windows off of the C: drive?, is there any other way other than formatting it?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Windows OS files are located in

\Windows\​

\Program Files\​

\Program Files (x86)\​

\Program Data\​

User profiles are in

\Users\​

Delete those folders/files and windows is gone. But it's not so easy to delete them. You'll have to take ownership of those folders/files, reset file access permissions. BTW - deleting is not possible, if active windows is running from those locations. Active windows lives in C: , secondary windows location will have a different drive letter.

 

[GirikJ]

Windows OS files are located in

\Windows\​

\Program Files\​

\Program Files (x86)\​

\Program Data\​

User profiles are in

\Users\​

Delete those folders/files and windows is gone. But it's not so easy to delete them. You'll have to take ownership of those folders/files, reset file access permissions. BTW - deleting is not possible, if active windows is running from those locations. Active windows lives in C: , secondary windows location will have a different drive letter.

So my plan is

to remove the 1tb drive

download a new copy of windows onto the MX500 250gb, and set it as the first boot option,

plug the 1tb drive back in and delete the old copy of windows and it should be fine after i get through all that, correct?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yes. Plan is good.