New NVME SSD showing up as removable drive

[RandomlyEpic103]

I just installed a brand new Inland Platinum 2tb NVMe Pcie SSD, it seems to be working fine but it's showing up in windows as a removable drive. I didn't have this problem when I installed my WD blue 500gb Nvme Pcie SSD a couple of weeks ago when I upgraded to a Asus Rog Strix B550-F gaming and a 5800x. I'm looking to use this drive as storage for games. I don't know if being seen as a removable drive will effect performance, but I'd like to get this fixed so that Windows sees it as a normal drive. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

Just noticed that my SATA SSD is not showing up now.

[Skiiwee29]

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[TetraSky]

10 minutes ago, Randomly_EpicYT said:

I don't know if being seen as a removable drive will effect performance

It will not.

Did you install the last chipset drivers from AMD? Those are typically required for proper storage detection. Turning off HotSwap like Caroline said is likely a good idea if you can find that option.

https://www.amd.com/en/support/chipsets/amd-socket-am4/b550

 

Did you change anything in the BIOS?

If you've enabled CSM, disable it. Make sure your controller is set to AHCI and not RAID.

 

10 minutes ago, Randomly_EpicYT said:

Just noticed that my SATA SSD is not showing up now.

Is it showing up in the BIOS? If not, is it properly plugged in?

[RandomlyEpic103]

Hot swapping is disabled and it's in AHCI, I download the chipset drivers from Asus, are the AMD ones different? I couldn't find CSM but I'll look for it some more. Will I need to reformat the drive after I change setting in the BIOS or will it just get recognized as a normal drive? Thanks for the help everyone.

[sanilsjacob]

Check Control Panel --> Device Manager --> Disks --> double click on the disk drives and make sure that under Policies tab drive 'write cache' is enabled and there is no 'optimize for quick removal' enabled. This is directly related with how windows considered or not a drive being removable.

Also, update to the latest chip-set and AHCI/RAID driver.

 

OR

 

You can try changing the serial bus to internal via regedit.

[RandomlyEpic103]

After spending a full day trying everything I could find in this forum and others, I cannot find a way to get windows to stop recognizing the drive as removable. Since it doesn't effect performance I'll just have to live with it. Not a huge deal I know, but still annoying. Thanks for all the help everyone, much appreciated.