Partition an M.2 NVMe?

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  1. TV2
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    W10 Pro 22H2
       #1

    Partition an M.2 NVMe?


    Q1: Has anyone here partitioned a M.2 NVMe drive?

    Q2: What program did you use to do it?

    I'm playing with a new rig, just set it up, and fired up Partition Wizard 9.1 free bootable and it does not see the drive. It sees my SATA HDD.
    The NVMe shows up in BIOS. It is raw, fresh install, nothing done to it yet, no Windows install yet (Bad RAM....Grrrr).

    Once I install W10, and it formats the drive and creates it's own four partitions, do you think it will show up in PW then?
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  2. Posts : 2,487
    Windows 10 Home, 64-bit
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    You can't put anything on the drive if it doesn't have a partition.

    If you intend to install W 10 on this drive, it would normally be partitioned and formatted as part of the install process.

    If you DON'T intend to put Windows on it, then you would normally start Windows on some other drive and then format and partition the drive in Windows Disk Management.

    Pretty much like any type of hard drive.

    Or am I not understanding you?
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  3. Posts : 7,254
    Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
       #3

    You will need to initialise and format the drive just like any new fresh brand new drive.
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  4. Posts : 5,048
    Windows 10/11 Pro x64, Various Linux Builds, Networking, Storage, Cybersecurity Specialty.
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    @TV2 -

    The above comments are correct. If it's a bare drive it must be Partitioned and Formatted like any other for Windows 10.
    Are you doing a special configuration?

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  5. TV2
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       #5

    I did not make my question clear.
    I plan on installing windows on the NVMe. It will be the only device connected at the time I do the install. I will let Windows create the 4 partitions it needs.

    It is a 500GB drive. After the installation, I'm thinking of using two 250GB partitions. Shrinking the C: partition using a Partition Manager as I would normally do. It's just that these NVMe's are new to me.

    I would assume it's just like any SSD or HDD for that matter, no big deal. But I'm looking for advice from anyone that has actually done it.

    I'm wondering if Partition Wizard cannot see the NVMe because it is raw and unformatted. But it can always see unformatted SATA disks and SSDs. So now I am concerned that the tech is too new for the program to recognize as a drive at all.
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  6. Posts : 18,432
    Windows 11 Pro
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    Does it show up in Windows Disk Management? The NVMe drive should show in Partition Wizard just like any other drive, whether or not it has partitions created on it:

    Partition an M.2 NVMe?-20190301_170253.jpg

    If it doesn't show up in Disk Management or Partition Wizard, then it isn't going to show up in Windows setup either and you won't be able to install anything on it.
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  7. TV2
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    Thread Starter
       #7

    This is a new build, no OS installed yet.
    I got some bad RAM and am fiddling around while I wait for replacement modules. There is nothing but BIOS to look at now.

    I have PW on a bootable CD (!). Version 9.1.
    It looks like you have the Windows installed free version 11 there. It could be that the new version sees NVMe's , but v9.1 is clueless.
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  8. Posts : 18,432
    Windows 11 Pro
       #8

    You are going to have to figure out why PW does not see the drive. Windows setup is not going to see it either:

    Partition an M.2 NVMe?-20190301_170253.jpg
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  9. TV2
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    W10 Pro 22H2
    Thread Starter
       #9

    Yeah, that's what I'm concerned about.
    Bios sees it.
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  10. TV2
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    W10 Pro 22H2
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       #10

    So it looks like you just kept the whole 500GB. Have you ever tried to partition that NVMe?
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