[SOLVED] NVMe SSD in Adapter Not Being Recognised by Windows

[coolstubbs10]

I just bought a Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVMe ssd as a secondary storage device, but my motherboard doesn't have a M2 slot so it's connected via a PCIe adapter. After booting windows I can't see the drive come up as a storage location and I can't find it in the BIOS (I get that it's not bootable with my motherboard). I downloaded the driver from the samsung website but it's still not being discovered.

Motherboard is ASUS P8Z77V (Socket 1155)
Adapter is https://www.overclockers.co.uk/akasa-m.2-ssd-to-pcie-adapter-card-cc-008-ak.html

Am I missing something or is one of these parts faulty?

Thanks

 

[mancsoulja]

As the SSD is new, have you initialized the drive from disk manager?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/initialize-new-disks

 

[coolstubbs10]

As the SSD is new, have you initialized the drive from disk manager?

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/initialize-new-disks

I realised this not long after making the post, thank you, it's sorted now haha. Never had to do that with my other SSDs