SSD-HDD is not recgnized on the PCIe

[Schnitzel1210]

Hi all,

I am not a IT - Professional so I apologize in advance for any stupid question.
I want to upgrade my SATA-HDD to an SSD-HDD connected  directly to the PCIe using an M.2 to SSD Adapter card on the PCIe 2 x 4 Slot on the mainboard. The SSD-HDD was recognized by windows and I sucessfully cloned the SATA-HDD onto the SSD-HDD. I could also see the cloned SSD-HDD in device-manager in Windows. After I assigned a drive letter in the windows disk-manager I had reading and writing access to the SSD-HDD.

Now i want to configure the new SSD-HDD as a main drive, but the BIOS does not find this new SSD-HDD. I tried many setting, but not successful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

My equippment

HP Z-230 Workstation:

• Processor: Intel CoreI I7-4770 CPU @3.40 Mhz
• Graficcard: NVIDIA GEForce GTX 1050Ti ab PCIe Gen 3 x 16 slot
• Chipsatz: Intel C226 chipset
• RAM: 2 x 4GB DDR
• Old SATA-HDD: Seagate 1.00TB, ST1000LX015-1U172
• NEW SDD-HDD: Western Digital: WD Blue™ SN550 NVMe SSD, 1 TB SSD, intern über PCIe Adapter an PCIe 2 x 4 Slot
  connections PCIe Gen3, 8 Gbit/s, up to 4 Lanes , type internal , capacity 1 TB , color (acc. manufacturer) blue , product-type HDD , dimension (B/H/T) / weight 22 mm x 2 mm x 80 mm / 8 g , HDD interface M.2 via PCIe , HDD-type SSD , Max. speed (read) 2400 MB/s , Max. speed (write) 1950 MB/s
• PCIe to M.2 Adapter: EZDIY-FAB PCI Express M.2 SSD NGFF PCIe Card to PCIe 3.0 x4 Adapter
  supports PCIe Gen3 and PCIe Gen2 M.2 NGFF 80 mm, 60 mm, 42 mm SSD
  supports PCIe 1.0, PCIe 2.0 and PCIe 3.0 Motherboard note: this adapter is for 'M' key M.2 PCIe SSD only
  Like Samsung XP941 SSD. Not compatible with 'B'-key M.2 PCIe x2 SSD or ' B'-Taste M.2 SATA SSD

 

[itsmyname]

@Schnitzel1210 --  After I assigned a drive letter in the windows disk-manager I had reading and writing access to the SSD-HDD.  Now i want to configure the new SSD-HDD as a main drive, but the BIOS does not find this new SSD-HDD. 

There is something "in-congruent" here. 

The BIOS must have recognized the SSD, before you used Windows to assign a drive-letter to it. 

But, now, you stated that the BIOS is not recognizing it.

This is confusing! When you are running Windows, is it still showing as having a drive-letter assigned to it?

[Schnitzel1210]

Thanks fo rthe answer..I assigned the drive letter in Windows, using the windows disk manager not in the Bios:

Here are my BIOS settings:

Storage:

Hard Disk

• SATA0                  1.00TB, ST1000LX015-1U/1772
• USB                       no media
• USB                       no media
• USB                       no media

CD-ROM

• SATA1                  HP DVDRAM GTAO

Storage Options:

                eSATA                                               disabled

                SATA Emulation                             RAID

                REMOVABLE MEDIA BOOT          Enabled

                MAX eSATA Speed                         1.6Gbps

Boot Order:

                UEFI Boot Sources

Windows Boot Manager

USB Hard Drive

Hard Drive

ATAPI CD\DVD Drive

IP4 Intel Ethernet Connection

IP6 Intel Ethernet Connection

Legacy Boot Sources  Disabled

[itsmyname]

@Schnitzel1210 ---

I wonder if "Hard Drive" (listed below) is associated with the M.2 adapter card?

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   UEFI Boot Sources

Windows Boot Manager

USB Hard Drive

Hard Drive