Question M.2 help

[Kh387]

I recently got a new MSI B360 Gaming Plus motherboard and am trying to add a 500gb WD Sata m.2 drive. The motherboard is able to detect the m.2 but it will not appear usable in Windows. Can anyone help me figure out how to get windows to detect and use it? It is not my boot drive.

 

[Andyme177]

in device manager action tab scan for hardware changes probably just doesn't have a generic driver so it's not seeing it

 

[Kh387]

It is appearing now in device manager however, I still do not see the m.2 under devices and drives as a usable disk so I'm unable to add or remove anything from it

 

[USAFRet]

Does it appear in Disk Management?

 

[Kh387]

Does it appear in Disk Management?

No it does not only my main boot drive and my extra hard drive do.

 

[Kh387]

No it does not only my main boot drive and my extra hard drive do.

Wait nevermind it does appear as Disk 0: 465.76GB Unallocated. Do I need to partition it or how am I able to allocate the space?

 

[Kh387]

Wait nevermind it does appear as Disk 0: 465.76GB Unallocated. Do I need to partition it or how am I able to allocate the space?

Got it Thank you all!

 

[USAFRet]

Got it Thank you all!

It works now?

 

[Kh387]

It works now?

Yes I just had to partition the drive so it worked.