Help! First time modification, concerned I screwed up

[Deadly RexX]

Hello! I am fairly new to being hands on with computers and when attempting to do my first upgrade per say to my computer I made a serious beginner mistake. I took the sticker off the top of a samsung evo 970 evo plus. 

I am using an alienware r11 that I got at the peak of the graphics card shortage, all because i was getting a 3080 at msrp. The MB that came with the computer only has one m.2 slot, so I purchased a sabrent NVMe M.2 to PCIe X16/X8/X4 card with a heat sink. I followed the instructions on installing the SSD to the sabrent card, then installed the sabrent card to the computer. I am not getting anything under file explorer for the new drive, nor is it showing in device manager.

Anyone have any ideas on where to start? I have removed the sabrent card from the pc, removed the ssd and then re installed it again to the same result as before.

 

Also; side note WTF samsung, if the sticker is going to void the warranty they should put do not remove. Am I crazy for thinking that?

[Deadly RexX]

A little additional info, I am on a dell stock MB for the R11,

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz   3.70 GHz

Windows 10

 

[bebejapes]

9 minutes ago, Deadly RexX said:

A little additional info, I am on a dell stock MB for the R11,

Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-10900KF CPU @ 3.70GHz   3.70 GHz

Windows 10

 

hi just to check all my boxs. could oyu boot it into bios mode and check if all the drives show up?

[Divinelysian]

You shouldn't remove the sticker generally, but it should be just fine. For next time, you can just put the heatsink on top of the sticker.

 

7 minutes ago, Deadly RexX said:

I am not getting anything under file explorer for the new drive, nor is it showing in device manager.

Does it show up in the bios? 

[Deadly RexX]

Just now, bebejapes said:

hi just to check all my boxs. could oyu boot it into bios mode and check if all the drives show up?

Hello, thank you for your response 

 

- Also, I located the device in device manager after realizing another rookie mistake, figured out the device needed to be formatted (i guess?) and assigned a number. After running the wizard for this the drive is showing up properly in file explorer 

[Deadly RexX]

1 minute ago, Divinelysian said:

You shouldn't remove the sticker generally, but it should be just fine. For next time, you can just put the heatsink on top of the sticker.

 

Does it show up in the bios? 

Yeah, that is what got me. The logical but not experienced part of me said, if it needs a heat sink it probably gets too hot for a sticker and I dont see it saying not to remove 

 

Also, The issue was corrected just a second ago due to... another rookie mistake. 

Few lessons learned, dont remove stickers and dont do upgrades after long days at work.

[Deadly RexX]

What got me messed up was that the computer came with the same drive type as the one I installed, so when I saw it in device manager that led me to believe it was the original one, not the new one

[bebejapes]

4 minutes ago, Deadly RexX said:

Hello, thank you for your response 

 

- Also, I located the device in device manager after realizing another rookie mistake, figured out the device needed to be formatted (i guess?) and assigned a number. After running the wizard for this the drive is showing up properly in file explorer 

thats okay so its sorted now?

 

so as our over lord #linus said "have we sorted out your problem. can we mark it as complete now?"

[Deadly RexX]

1 minute ago, bebejapes said:

thats okay so its sorted now?

 

so as our over lord #linus said "have we sorted out your problem. can we mark it as complete now?"

Yes sir, all set

 

[bebejapes]

4 minutes ago, Deadly RexX said:

Yes sir, all set

 

awesome sir. please mark it as solved hahahhaa