Adding HP EX900 NVMe M.2 PCIe

[JRB2k]

Purhased the Z2 Mini, decided to upgrade a bit, currently running with a SATA hard drive Windows 10 Pro 64bit

I had a slot available purchased the HP EX900 500gb NVMe M.2 card. I installed it, it shows up in bios (Advisor)   as

Slot1 SSD1 - Standard NVM Express Controller  Slot1/M.2 SSD1

Slot type PCI EXPRESS GEN 3 x4

Current: IN USE

But I do ot see the drive added in windows file explorer, I cannot access the drive. I'm sure it must be something simple that I need to do to enabe the system to use it, but I can't seem to figure it out. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Do you see the drive in Disk Management (right-click on startand click on disk management).

Let me know,

David

[JRB2k]

Yes, I do, and that of course along with Disk management solved my brain cloud. I forgot all about adding the drive and partition. Thanks, Give me back my DOS 3.1!!!  I will now go hide under a rock.

[iomare]

Great. Glad you got it working.

You could install the OS on that drive which will give a boost to ther everyday performance of the PC.

Let me know if you need any further help.

All the best,

David

[JRB2k]

Thanks David, yes my plan is to move the OS over to that drive, get it off the spinner.  I think I need to clone the SATA to it, and I assume change the boot order, I'll also after that remove the spinner and replace with an SSD SATA 3.0 drive. I have the Z2 mounted in a VESA mount on the bak of a monitor, I'm not a fan of running a hard drive on it's side at an angle, I expect a pre mature failure the way it is.  When I'm done, I should have a pretty fast system to do my 360 video editing on.  Thanks again for the kick in the brain.