eclonser only supports hdd/sdd and was turned off. so 0 worry there it was more as a ref this drive is this USB not the actual nvme drive.

as for the BIOS it and win recovery see the drive and can...

Negative, that is a hot swappable external dual drive bay.

The NVME is in the 2nd of 3 slots on my board.

The drive that is missing is GPT already.

Recently upgraded to 5950x, gigabyte x570, win10 V21H1

I was able to change my c drive from mbr to gpt.

Before this happened I was able to see all 5 of my hard drives.

After reboot and...