Windows 10: My device reconises my secondary drive but it does not show up in the file explorer.

I built my new computer yesterday and I have 2 drives currently (with a 3rd arriving in about a month) my boot drive works fine and has appeared in file explorer. I have a second drive installed and while it is recognised in the bios and in device manager, under disk drives, it does not show up in my file explorer, meaning I can not use it.

both of these drives are m.2, however the secondary drive is sata based and it is in a pcie slot. (I know, stupid mistake). however since it is detected I was hopping there may be some way to get it to work.


does anyone have any sugestions?



my motherboard is the MSI MPG X570 gaming edge wifi, the second drive is a WD Blue 1tb drive.

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Under device manager the drive shows as present and working normally.
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