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Crucial MX500, Detected in BIOS but not usable. HELP

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If you can see it in the BIOS, that means the drive is working, but you need to initialize it. Open Disk Management on your PC, scroll down until you see the drive. It should show up as a black "unallocated" volume. Right click it and you should be able to format the drive, name it, and assign it a drive letter.

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So... After a while, I finally got around to installing my brand new Crucial MX500 4TB... and it isn't working. It does not show up in the Windows Explorer, but my BIOS does detect it. I am very confused...

I also know that I plugged it into a working SATA-Port, namely no.2 - 5&6 don't work because I have a M.2 installed. I use the B450 Tomahawk Max motherboard btw.

If anyone else experienced this issue with the Crucial MX500, please let me know. I don't want to realize I have bought a 300€ paperweight. Thanks!

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If you can see it in the BIOS, that means the drive is working, but you need to initialize it. Open Disk Management on your PC, scroll down until you see the drive. It should show up as a black "unallocated" volume. Right click it and you should be able to format the drive, name it, and assign it a drive letter.

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6 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

If you can see it in the BIOS, that means the drive is working, but you need to initialize it. Open Disk Management on your PC, scroll down until you see the drive. It should show up as a black "unallocated" volume. Right click it and you should be able to format the drive, name it, and assign it a drive letter.

OMG THANK YOU SO MUCH! I am such a pleb when it comes to storage management haha... Anyways should I pick MBR or GPT for the formatting?

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1 minute ago, Brownhorn111 said:

Anyways should I pick MBR or GPT for the formatting?

whatever the default was, but generally pick GPT.

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