Question M.2 not showing in disk management

[swtesw]

I built a PC couple months ago, I decided to try an M.2 ( never used one before) I installed the Samsung 970 evo plus in the M.2 slot above my graphics card. It shows in bios & device manager but not in disk management, someone suggested enabling it in bios, which it seems to be. I've read some posts, but not seeing a solution for mine, any help would be much appreciated. 😵‍💫

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[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You might want to install the NVMe driver for the SSD;

Samsung 970 EVO Plus PCIe 3.0 SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Samsung 970 EVO Plus maximizes the potential of NVMe™ bandwidth for unbeatable computing. In capacities up to 2TB, with reliability of up to 1,200 TBW.

semiconductor.samsung.com

at the very bottom of the support page. See if that helps you out.

What BIOS version are you on at this moment of time?

 

[swtesw]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

You might want to install the NVMe driver for the SSD;

Samsung 970 EVO Plus PCIe 3.0 SSD | Samsung Semiconductor Global

Samsung 970 EVO Plus maximizes the potential of NVMe™ bandwidth for unbeatable computing. In capacities up to 2TB, with reliability of up to 1,200 TBW.

semiconductor.samsung.com

at the very bottom of the support page. See if that helps you out.

What BIOS version are you on at this moment of time?

Thanks! It shows BIOS Ver.2014

It's 12th Gen Intel i9-12990K

I downloaded that but it didn't do anything.

 

[Maxxify]

It shows in bios & device manager but not in disk management

In this case you might have to use diskpart to list, select, and clean the disk. This is done in command prompt (elevated/as administrator) and must be done with CAUTION as selecting the wrong disk will lead to data loss. After the clean command it should show up in Disk Management where you can format and assign it a drive letter.

Precise procedure once in cmd prompt is:
diskpart
list disk
//see which disk it is you want
select disk #
//# matches the disk you want
clean
exit

 

[swtesw]

In this case you might have to use diskpart to list, select, and clean the disk. This is done in command prompt (elevated/as administrator) and must be done with CAUTION as selecting the wrong disk will lead to data loss. After the clean command it should show up in Disk Management where you can format and assign it a drive letter.

Precise procedure once in cmd prompt is:
diskpart
list disk
//see which disk it is you want
select disk #
//# matches the disk you want
clean
exit

I did this but I'm not too sure which drive it is, so a lil nervous to clean one. However, I think it's 4 since it's not used. The M.2 is 2 T.

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 298 GB 1024 KB
Disk 2 Online 465 GB 1024 KB
Disk 3 Online 931 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 4 Online 1863 GB 1863 GB *
Disk 5 Online 931 GB 0 B
Disk 6 Online 7452 GB 0 B *
Disk 7 Online 1863 GB 0 B
Disk 8 Online 931 GB 0 B

 

[Maxxify]

I did this but I'm not too sure which drive it is, so a lil nervous to clean one. However, I think it's 4 since it's not used. The M.2 is 2 T.

DISKPART> list disk

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---
Disk 0 Online 931 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 298 GB 1024 KB
Disk 2 Online 465 GB 1024 KB
Disk 3 Online 931 GB 1024 KB *
Disk 4 Online 1863 GB 1863 GB *
Disk 5 Online 931 GB 0 B
Disk 6 Online 7452 GB 0 B *
Disk 7 Online 1863 GB 0 B
Disk 8 Online 931 GB 0 B

You can list volumes ('list volume') and partitions ('list partition' after selecting a disk) as well. The disks will be identified in Disk Management so you know which ones to rule out. It does look like Disk 4, so that should be missing in Disk Management.