Solved Lost access to BIOS after adding a 2nd M.2 SSD

mblack said:

on the disk 1, in the black area, right click mount

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The partitions are marked as active. No 'mount' option is available.

Scannerman said:

It could just be that the old hard drive just won't work properly in an enclosure anymore. I'm glad you found some decent people who would do that work for you for free. Not many shops are into that level of customer service these days. That's mighty decent of them. Mighty decent. If it were me I'd get that extra 4TB drive with the money I saved taking it to the shop for free and do that data transfer. Then I'd completely reformat the old 4TB drive and run it in SATA. I could always put the new 4TB drive in the new enclosure. If the new enclosure can't handle a new 4TB hard drive there is likely something wrong with it and if that should be the case I'd be looking for a refund.

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If I could get a 4TB disk for the money I saved at the shop, I'd be very happy :).
No such luck. Disks here are overpriced. Even if I get it from Amazon, I'd pay an extra 50 euro for customs.
But I'll get one eventually, most probably an 8TB SSD (when the prices go down)... The new enclosure would be useless in this case. It supports only 3.5" disks like the 4TB USB I have.
Not sure if the new enclosure I got is to blame. I think it doesn't have the tricky chip like the old case had to accommodate 4TB MBR partitions. Whenever I freshly initialize that disk as GPT, the new case shouldn't have a problem.

Maybe, now that I can play with the BIOS, maybe I'll try the new enclosure again.

kanenas said:

If I could get a 4TB disk for the money I saved at the shop, I'd be very happy :).
No such luck. Disks here are overpriced. Even if I get it from Amazon, I'd pay an extra 50 euro for customs.
But I'll get one eventually, most probably an 8TB SSD (when the prices go down)... The new enclosure would be useless in this case. It supports only 3.5" disks like the 4TB USB I have.
Not sure if the new enclosure I got is to blame. I think it doesn't have the tricky chip like the old case had to accommodate 4TB MBR partitions. Whenever I freshly initialize that disk as GPT, the new case shouldn't have a problem.

Maybe, now that I can play with the BIOS, maybe I'll try the new enclosure again.

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Yes. I don't think the new enclosure is the issue either. Also I don't think that just because the old 4TB drive won't behave in an enclosure with Win 11 that it is broken. Just older architecture being forced to work with newer software. Stuff happens. This is why I suggested using it as a SATA drive. I think somewhere in the course of this thread it was mentioned that it is an HGST drive. Perhaps I'm mistaken. If that should be the case there is the likelihood of it being an internal bridge issue. That does not mean it is broken. Personally, I'm not a big fan of eliminating older hardware unless it is absolutely necessary. Planned obsolescence annoys me.

I've never owned an 8TB SSD. My personal limit with SSD is 4TB. I do however own a couple of 10TB HGST drives which have never given me any trouble at all. I'm actually in the process of rebuilding this layout so I've pulled a few drives since. Congratulations on your blazing fast NVMe! Here's a sample of what I have on ye olde X99 system (soon to be rebuilt).

An update on my post #56, point (5) about the Momentum Cache.

The article I had seen is Crucial’s FREE Momentum Cache Works on Any NVMe SSD! – Our First Look at RAM Caching on NVMe SSDs - The SSD Review

If you enlarge the 1st picture in it to make it readable, the Momentum Cache driver is v1.7.3.0.
Based on the rest of that article, the program's version they used was 3.46.062017.04. Its link points to Crucial but that's already unavailable.
It seems that Momentum Cache was free for all brands of SSDs until that version.

As luck would have it, my USB 4TB problematic disk, had a copy in it, dated 2017-8-1. No idea when I picked it up since I move stuff around and dates change.
The presumably working version I have, doesn't. It doesn't recognize any drives in my system.

I found another copy (same version) in a Frensch site, Exactly the same as mine.
They showed there the supported list and my Crucial model (the SSD I use for data) wasn't in the list. Which explains why it doesn't recognize any drives for me. There must be at least one acceptable Crucial drive before it works.

All later versions I came across, are using as cache driver v1.7.3.2 which works only for Crucial SSDs.

As is, I can only use later versions for my single Crucial.

Scannerman, you're kidding me? :)
How on earth did you fit all those in the computer without cooking it? They are SSD style?
Even in the days I was setting up a new system every couple of years, I'd never consider so many disks. The desktop was overheating with just a couple of big disks but smaller in capacity.

Color me impressed.

Kidding you? Surely not. I don't even have half the drives I used to have in this unit because I'm pulling the build apart to put in my X299 board. Never had thermal issues with my drives and a good many of them are good old fashioned mechanical drives. The case is a ThermalTake Level 10 GT (as pictured in the thumb nail here). It keeps things wonderfully cool. Admittedly, I did do a bit of fan modding inside and the whole thing weighs around 80 lbs fully loaded. I feel a bit bad about having to disassemble everything but you know, WINDOWS 11.

I'll be moving the X99 into the Cooler Master ATCS 840 as my backup PC. That will be a project all by itself. A good platinum rated PSU and a humble GFX card makes the whole thing possible. I'm running 5 RAID arrays at least and a couple of them are RAID 10 so you can well imagine that I have more drives than meets the eye in this case. It was a lovely build and I hope to make it even lovlier.