Windows 7 Not Seeing NVME-PCI-e Drive

michael diemer

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I have a Windows 7 and Linux dual-boot. I recently installed a Samsung 980 NVME-PCIe drive, which I use to host orhcestral libraries for my compositional work. Linux, where I do most of my work, sees it no problem. windows 7 does not.

The drive stats:

Partitioning: GUID
File System: NTFS
Partitioning Type: Basic Data

There is no operating system on it, I just use it for fast loading of the orchestra sounds, which take forever on a HDD. but I can't use it on Windows, and there are still things I may want to do Windows, so I would like to get it up and running. Otherwise I'll have to accept very long load times for my projects (at least 5 minutes or more).

Is this possible?