WD 1TB NVMe SSD displays in BIOS yet functions as a "Recovery Image" in Windows, showing only 20GB.
WD 1TB NVMe SSD displays in BIOS yet functions as a "Recovery Image" in Windows, showing only 20GB.
Installed my brand new WD Blue SN580 1TB SSD into the secondary M.2 slot on my motherboard. I used the MSI PRO B760-P with Wi-Fi and DDR4 LGA 1700. Before this, I was only running the Samsung 970 Evo as a boot drive. After adding the WD drives and an old hard disk during a PC disassembly, both Samsung and the hard disk appeared, but the M.2 WD drive showed up as a recovery image. With 18GB used, it appears as if I bought it from Amazon during a Prime sale—it shows up in the BIOS as the correct 1TB drive and elsewhere in my PC, yet when trying to access it for storage, it just displays this. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
The system identifies the storage device and its capacity, yet Windows does not display this information.
It looks like you're observing your C boot drive, with both D and E being older Windows installations on the same hard drive you also added. The SSD is located below, but it wasn't visible in the disk management screenshot because you didn’t scroll down—possibly blank or not yet partitioned/formatted.