B450M Pro4 M.2 drive question

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   Hello all. I am returning to the forum after a five year gap ??having used my home built PC without issue thanks to much needed help from here during that build. However, I need a wee bit of help against please.

B450M Pro4 Motherboard   
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
16gb DDR4
Radeon RX570 Series

I have a 500Gb M.2 card ADATA SX8200PNP in slot M1
I have 2 old 500Gb HDDs in SATA 3.1/3.2 and SATA 3.3/3.4

I have bought a 1TB Western Digital WD Blue SA510 M.2 1000gb (SATA) ssd which I have fitted to slot M2 today

I understand there is a conflict between M2 slot and SATA 3.3 (?) so I have physically removed the connector of one of my old HDDs from SATA 3.3/3.4

With BIOS set to ?�auto????I can see the WD Blue drive on my BIOS page (with my ADATA) but on boot up, I cannot see it. I am running BIOS 5.3 and see that 5.7 is the latest unless I go to a BETA version ??could this be the problem, or might I be doing something else wrong ?? I simply wish to copy the 2 old HDDs to the new M.2 ssd (having just suffered a HDD failure in my NAS drive (after 9 years)

Thank you for any help advice you may have

BRgds fro a very wet London UK

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priyp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 20 Apr 2020 Location: London UK Status: Offline Points: 70	Post Options Post Reply Quote priyp Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: B450M Pro4 M.2 drive question Posted: 3 hours 37 minutes ago at 12:25am
	Hello all. I am returning to the forum after a five year gap ??having used my home built PC without issue thanks to much needed help from here during that build. However, I need a wee bit of help against please. B450M Pro4 Motherboard AMD Ryzen 5 3600 16gb DDR4 Radeon RX570 Series I have a 500Gb M.2 card ADATA SX8200PNP in slot M1 I have 2 old 500Gb HDDs in SATA 3.1/3.2 and SATA 3.3/3.4 I have bought a 1TB Western Digital WD Blue SA510 M.2 1000gb (SATA) ssd which I have fitted to slot M2 today I understand there is a conflict between M2 slot and SATA 3.3 (?) so I have physically removed the connector of one of my old HDDs from SATA 3.3/3.4 With BIOS set to ?�auto????I can see the WD Blue drive on my BIOS page (with my ADATA) but on boot up, I cannot see it. I am running BIOS 5.3 and see that 5.7 is the latest unless I go to a BETA version ??could this be the problem, or might I be doing something else wrong ?? I simply wish to copy the 2 old HDDs to the new M.2 ssd (having just suffered a HDD failure in my NAS drive (after 9 years) Thank you for any help advice you may have BRgds fro a very wet London UK

Xaltar Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Moderator Group Joined: 16 May 2015 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 31048	Post Options Post Reply Quote Xaltar Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 3 hours 22 minutes ago at 12:40am
	So both M.2 drives show up in your BIOS but the WD Blue isn't showing up in Windows? When it comes to the BIOS I always advise updating only when absolutely necessary. If the new drive is showing up in your BIOS then you may need to initialize it in windows. Depending on your Windows version the instructions will vary a little but in all more modern versions you will need to go to disk management to initialize the new drive. In "disk management" it will show up as an "unknown" drive. Right click it and click initialize then follow normal formating procedures.


priyp Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 20 Apr 2020 Location: London UK Status: Offline Points: 70	Post Options Post Reply Quote priyp Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 3 hours 13 minutes ago at 12:49am
	Xaltar What a gent !!! Thank you ??Disk Management !!! All sorted and my New ?�D??Drive is showing :-) Really appreciate your help !!