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anirbax
Hi All,
My new Lenovo laptop came with a WDC 250GB NVMe SSD and had a spare M.2 slot to which I added another
WDC 500GB drive. Windows 10 Home Single Language edition came pre-installed in the first SSD.
The BIOS is able to 'see' the second drive. See the boot menu image below:
I was able to install Ubuntu in the second SSD and it works perfectly, there is no slot/electric connector issue
whatsoever.
The problem is, Windows is unable find the drive or initialize the 2nd SSD. I see a 'RAW' type disk in Windows
disk manager, but my format attempt fails.
When I try DISKPART from the command line, it does not see the 2nd SSD as a new disk but as a new volume of the first SSD !!
See below: Volume 0, 1 and 2 are the Windows partitions in the first SSD. Volume 3 (465GB) is my 2nd SSD!
Seems some where, Windows is confused about the 2nd SSD.
I have tried almost all partition and disk recovery tools, Ease did not help, all the Parition magicians and wizards. The Western
Digital tool Dashboard also shows only the first 250GB SSD.
Any help would be much appreciated. My only option at this point to use the 2nd SSD seems to be to install GNU/Linux on it.
Regards
anirbax
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My new Lenovo laptop came with a WDC 250GB NVMe SSD and had a spare M.2 slot to which I added another
WDC 500GB drive. Windows 10 Home Single Language edition came pre-installed in the first SSD.
The BIOS is able to 'see' the second drive. See the boot menu image below:
I was able to install Ubuntu in the second SSD and it works perfectly, there is no slot/electric connector issue
whatsoever.
The problem is, Windows is unable find the drive or initialize the 2nd SSD. I see a 'RAW' type disk in Windows
disk manager, but my format attempt fails.
When I try DISKPART from the command line, it does not see the 2nd SSD as a new disk but as a new volume of the first SSD !!
See below: Volume 0, 1 and 2 are the Windows partitions in the first SSD. Volume 3 (465GB) is my 2nd SSD!
Seems some where, Windows is confused about the 2nd SSD.
I have tried almost all partition and disk recovery tools, Ease did not help, all the Parition magicians and wizards. The Western
Digital tool Dashboard also shows only the first 250GB SSD.
Any help would be much appreciated. My only option at this point to use the 2nd SSD seems to be to install GNU/Linux on it.
Regards
anirbax
Continue reading...