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March 7th, 2025 09:42
5820 workstation with nvme flexbay: does 4tb crucial P3 work in flexbay?
I have a dell precision 5820 with a flexbay for the upper two drive housings and SATA for the two below. In the left upper bay I have a working 1tb boot nvme drive, which sits in the u.2 adapter. It is a Toshiba 1tb nvme. I want to replace it with a 4tb crucial P3 nvme.
Bios sees the 4tb as an nvme storage device. But it won't boot, and a usb stick windows recovery won't recognise it.
When I boot to a fedora Linux usb stick it can see the 4tb nvme in the flexbay and see it's contents.
I downloaded the nvme drivers from the crucial web site, but windows doesn't recognise them as compatible. When I load them anyway they don't allow the drive to show up.
Any thoughts? I have a pcie card for nvme, but I want to make use of that bay.