[SOLVED] Can someone please help me with my new m.2 SSD?

[Octavio T.]

Hello, I recently ordered a 240GB Kingston m.2 SSD from amazon and it just came in today, but I cannot access it on my computer.
The m.2 is not showing up anywhere in BIOS except for the Board Explorer in which it recognizes that something is plugged in. I used hwinfo64 to see if it could recognize it and it does not. The SSD is properly installed(I took it out and put it back in multiple times), on my motherboard right above my graphics card. My motherboard is compatible with m.2s but yet it still cannot be found. I've check multiple videos to see what might be happening and I can't figure out what to do. Sorry if I'm missing something here, I'm not to great with this type of stuff, my specs are down below.

Motherboard: Z170A SLI PLUS
M.2: https://www.amazon.com/Kingston-A400-240G-SATA-Internal/dp/B07P22RK1G
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970
Hard Drive: WDC WD10EZEX-00WN4A0 - 1TB
CPU: Intel Core - i7-6700K @ 4.00GHz

 

[USAFRet]

Your drive is SATA.
Your motherboard only supports PCIe/NVMe drives in that M.2 port.
1 x M.2 Key M Socket supports type 2280/2260/2242 storage devices in PCIE Gen3 x4 mode*
https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/Z170A-SLI-PLUS/Specification

That drive will not work on that motherboard.

 

[Octavio T.]

I see, thank you so much