Hello technical wizards of Tom's Hardware Forums... Long time, first time, etc.
I have a pretty old built PC whose storage I recently tried to increase, and I've been running into some issues. I acquired a Leven JMS600-2TB drive and after doing some internal cleaning sat the drive in the motherboard's mSATA slot.
My MoBo is a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H, and the BIOS version is F14 (the latest non-beta version available). Also, I'm running Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045.
Prior to my attempt to install the mSATA SSD I had 3 other drives in the PC:
1) 128GB Samsung MZ-7PC128B/WW R SSD
2) 1TB Western Digital WD10EZRX HDD
3) 2TB Samsung 870 QVO SSD
After installing the new Leven mSATA drive the #1 drive (128GB Samsung SSD) has disappeared from my computer. On top of that I can't find the new 2TB drive in the Windows menus.
When I look in the Device Manager I see the #2 and #3 drives, as well as a drive that says 'SSD 2TB', so it seems like the computer is recognizing the existence of the new mSATA drive but when I look in the 'This PC' section of the Windows menus neither the new mSATA drive or the old #1 128GB drive are anywhere to be found.
I've had this PC for 12 years now (with one GPU upgrade about 6 years ago) so I know it's probably long past time I put the old girl out to pasture, but in the meantime I'd like to be able to squeeze a few more games into my PC here without having to do the endless deleting dance. I'm almost certain I'm missing something really trivial in the BIOS or somewhere else but I have no idea what it would be, so any guidance you could provide would be much appreciated! Thanks!
I have a pretty old built PC whose storage I recently tried to increase, and I've been running into some issues. I acquired a Leven JMS600-2TB drive and after doing some internal cleaning sat the drive in the motherboard's mSATA slot.
My MoBo is a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H, and the BIOS version is F14 (the latest non-beta version available). Also, I'm running Microsoft Windows 10.0.19045.
Prior to my attempt to install the mSATA SSD I had 3 other drives in the PC:
1) 128GB Samsung MZ-7PC128B/WW R SSD
2) 1TB Western Digital WD10EZRX HDD
3) 2TB Samsung 870 QVO SSD
After installing the new Leven mSATA drive the #1 drive (128GB Samsung SSD) has disappeared from my computer. On top of that I can't find the new 2TB drive in the Windows menus.
When I look in the Device Manager I see the #2 and #3 drives, as well as a drive that says 'SSD 2TB', so it seems like the computer is recognizing the existence of the new mSATA drive but when I look in the 'This PC' section of the Windows menus neither the new mSATA drive or the old #1 128GB drive are anywhere to be found.
I've had this PC for 12 years now (with one GPU upgrade about 6 years ago) so I know it's probably long past time I put the old girl out to pasture, but in the meantime I'd like to be able to squeeze a few more games into my PC here without having to do the endless deleting dance. I'm almost certain I'm missing something really trivial in the BIOS or somewhere else but I have no idea what it would be, so any guidance you could provide would be much appreciated! Thanks!
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