Asus Maximus Formula vii M.2 PCIe issues. Please Help

[Austin_84]

MY BUILD
-Asus Maximus Formula VII Motherboard
-1 Hyper Predeator M.2 hooked into a PCI adapter
-1 500gb Samsung sata SSD
-1 120gb kingston sata SSD



I purchased the Kingston Predator M.2 SSD,
installed windows to test it out and it worked great. I decided I didnt want my OS on this drive...

And I reformated all of my ssd's in order to try and optimize my system.
I wanted to use my smaller ssd for the OS and drivers ONLY.
My 500gb samsung ssd for majority of my storage
And the m.2 pci for larg apps such as games, adobe premiere, etc.....

Im getting off topic.
SO, When I had the OS installed onto the M.2 ssd everything worked great.
i reformatted everything and now it doesn't show up under "my computer"
ALTHOUGH;
It shows up in my BIOS. AND also, when I go into computer management > Device Manager > Disk Drives.. There it is, but qhwn I go into disc management, I am lost again??? I know it has to be something simple I am missing.


If anyone could please help, ive been at this for hours to no avail

 

[Lutfij]

1| Have you made sure your BIOS is up to date?

2| Can you please state your full system's specs inclusive of your OS? List them as:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
GPU:
SSD/HDD:
PSU:
OS:

3| Ideally you have all the apps installed on the OS drive(sans any partitions, i know some who are silly enough to partition an SSD) so I could suggest seeing if the OS does install on the NVMe storage drive and have the other SSD's as your secondary app's drives.

 

[Austin_84]

1| Have you made sure your BIOS is up to date?

2| Can you please state your full system's specs inclusive of your OS? List them as:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
GPU:
SSD/HDD:
PSU:
OS:

3| Ideally you have all the apps installed on the OS drive(sans any partitions, i know some who are silly enough to partition an SSD) so I could suggest seeing if the OS does install on the NVMe storage drive and have the other SSD's as your secondary app's drives.

I figured it out. I booted the windows 10 instillation disk. then, when it got to the screen that lists the drives I clicked on mine (that I was having issues with) and out of all the options such as' format, etc... the button labled "NEW" was highlighted. which I hadn't seen before so I clicked it, restarted my computer, went to disk managment and was able to format it.

My only problem I am still having is that after running a benchmark test it is running between 500-600mb/s.
Before, when my O.S was installed on this drive, it was about 1,600 mb/s read and 700-900 mb/s write.
I probably just have to mess around with the BIOS, as I am sure I changed something intially when I was trying to get it to work.