chubbyspiky23

Hey don't know if you still have this issue or not. I just bought a 13600k with an Asus Z690-A ROG Strix (no 12th gen cpu lying around) and has been having a dilemma with updating BIOS too (because Asus recommends you update the Intel ME firmware BEFORE updating BIOS to version 2103 - which is impossible for me without a system already operating). This thread of yours fills me with dread now. haha However, from my scraping through ASUS ROG forum, for people using 13th gen cpu on Z690 mobo, even if you flash (via bios flashback) your BIOS to the latest version, you might run into issue of system not recognizing the M.2_1 slot. Perhaps that's what caused your system not to post. Try installing your boot NVME drive into any slot other than M.2_1, and, if your system posts, then install Windows and update all the firmware/drivers that you need and then replace your boot NVME drive back into M.2_1. For me, I will either try to flash my BIOS to 2004 (because it has the latest Intel ME firmware rolled up in there) and then to 2103. Or, do what a user on that forum suggests, flash to the latest BIOS 2103, then install NVME in M.2_2/3/4, then install Windows etc. (as shown above). Not sure how stable that will be though.

hmm, interesting. Perhaps I'll just give plug-and-playing it a shot. Worst thing that could happen is my system won't recognize it, I guess. Thank you.

Did the data stay intact? You didn't have to initialize, format or partition the HDD at all?

Thanks for your response. I wasn't clear in my original post. The WD Black drive is in fact an internal hard drive in an enclosure. I bought them separately. I bought this combo 4 years ago or so because I want big storage on the go. Back then portable 4TB wasn't a thing or prohibitively expensive. Now that I sort of have a portable external 2TB, I want to revert this WD Black back to its intended use, an internal HDD. I haven't tried just straight up taking the WD Black out and connect SATA cables to it to see if my system would recognize it. I figure it wouldn't that simple. Hope this clears it.

Hi, I have a WD Black 4TB in an enclosure used as an external HDD. I'd like to turn it into an internal HDD for my desktop system. I know going for USB to SATA connection is probably not as easy as just plug-and-play. However, besides having to back up the data, re-format the HDD, put it in the system and partition it, is there a quicker and easier way to turn the HDD into an internal one? Thanks in advance.