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I have been trying to configur my laptop but the 2nd drive will not show up in the BIOS. When i install my SSD in the M.2 slot works good and when i install the SSD Sata in its drive slot it works good. so both drives work but when I go into the BIOS it will only show 1 drive. MY disk manager shows 2 my devise manager shows 2 and file explorer shows 2. But BIOS will only show 1 Or when I start the laptop with F9 to choose which drive to boot from it only shows 1 drive

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One of the drives may not have been configured with a drive letter.

 

You can use Windows DiskPart to  check that and remedy that if it is the case.

 

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Yes both drives have letters C and D both drivers work when i install them separately. when both are installed they show up on Disk manager Device manager and file explorer but when i start the laptop with F9 only one drive is showing and when i go into the BIOS only one drive is showing.  

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Is one configured as an MBR volume and the other as a GPT volume?

You can find that out  by using Diskpart. 

 

Use the list disk command in diskpart.

a GPT disk will have a star in the GPT column and MBR volume will not.



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