How to use an NVMe SSD for data storage (no booting)

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#1 | How to use an NVMe SSD for data storage (no booting) datum

Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:14 pm (Last edited: Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:04 am)

Hey, just curious.. Can I ignore the OS installation section? Because I want my M.2 PCIe NVME SSD to be storage for games instead of my operating system. Although I'm about to attempt to flash it (should be okay since I have a laptop to get a normal BIOS to flash on this if need be), I felt I should still ask since I'm unsure if this only makes it recognisable as a boot device or makes it useable.

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#2 | RE:How to use an NVMe drive for data storage (no booting) datum

Thu Nov 07, 2019 12:27 pm

@Gunarchist:
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
If you don't want to use the NVMe SSD as bootable system drive, you don't need to do a fresh OS installation according to chapter 4 of my guide (you don't even have to integrate the NVMe module into the BIOS).
That means, that you should be able to use the NVMe SSD as storage drive directly after its proper insertion into an M.2 port or via adapter into a suitable PCIe slot. Only precondition: The OS should support NVMe.
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#3 | RE:How to use an NVMe drive for data storage (no booting) datum

Tue Nov 12, 2019 2:04 am

Well I have 64 bit Windows 10 and it still didn't detect the drive, so how can I make it support the drive?

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#4 | RE:How to use an NVMe drive for data storage (no booting) datum

Tue Nov 12, 2019 10:40 am

@Gunarchist:
Where (which PCIe slot) and how (with which adapter) is your NVMe SSD connected to your mainboard?
Have you tried to insert the M.2>PCIe adapter with the NVMe SSD into another PCIe slot?
What does the Device Manager show within the section "Disk drives"?

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#5 | RE:How to use an NVMe drive for data storage (no booting) datum

Thu Nov 14, 2019 2:58 am

Well I see it on the disk drive section of Device Manager, however, it doesn't seem to have a recognised volume. How to make one for it?

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#6 | RE:How to use an NVMe drive for data storage (no booting) datum

Thu Nov 14, 2019 3:47 am (Last edited: Thu Nov 14, 2019 7:59 am)

@Gunarchist:
What about using the Disk Management?

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#7 | RE:How to use an NVMe drive for data storage (no booting) datum

Thu Nov 14, 2019 5:43 am (Last edited: Thu Nov 14, 2019 9:06 am)

Well sorry that I had to ask on here since I got ignored a lot when I tried to ask how to make an NVME drive recognisable only.. What's wrong with that?
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However.. Didn't you suggest searching Disk Management for a program to see if I can find the drive?
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Never mind.. I worked it out, I had to create a partition on there with a program.

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#8 | RE: How to use an NVMe SSD for data storage (no booting) datum

Thu Nov 14, 2019 8:24 am

@Gunarchist:
Since all your questions regarding the usage of an NVMe SSD as non-bootable data storage device had nothing to do with the topic "How to get full NVMe support", I have moved them all into a new thread and gave it a meaningful title.

Zitat von Gunarchist im Beitrag #7
Well sorry that I had to ask on here since I got ignored a lot when I tried to ask how to make an NVME drive recognisable only.. What's wrong with that?

Where and how often did I ignore you? Please post links to your contributions, which were not replied by me.
By the way - as you know now, the answer to your question "How to make an NVMe drive recognisable while running Win10?" is: "There is no need to make it recognisable, it will be automaticly recognized by the OS."

Zitat von Gunarchist im Beitrag #8
However.. Didn't you suggest searching Disk Management for a program to see if I can find the drive?

Zitat von Gunarchist im Beitrag #9
Never mind.. I worked it out, I had to create a partition on there with a program.

There is no need to use any third party program for this task. The Win10 in-box Disk Management would have done it as well.

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