SK Hynix PC300 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive Not showing in Disk Management

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PhoenixBennu

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I am a little light on my knowledge for boot and caching ssds. I have a 64gb drive that was preset as a caching drive in my laptop, but I never really gave it mind. I understand in general what it does, but managing it or messing around with it was never my forte. Im not new to hardware, but I am a bit new to using boot and cache drives.

So, today I was opening up my wife's laptop to realize she has a 256gb SSD drive (as listed in the title). I never knew this as I always thought she just had a 1tb HDD.
When I load UEFI I can see the drive on the second boot option after windows boot manager, but I cannot see if under device manager or disk management.

Am I supposed to be able to see it or is it hidden away just for use with boot or caching? I can see my 64gb caching ssd in device manager just fine, but in my wife's computer I cannot see it.

Can someone please enlighten me and maybe help if its supposed to be showing? Please?
 
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It doesnt show up in either the top options or the bottom? (By the bottom options I mean the area with all the blue lines) You should be able to easily locate it by looking for a drive with the space of the SSD

 
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PhoenixBennu

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Not it doesnt. The only place that it is listed is in the UEFI settings when I start up and check. Its listed as a second boot option after windows boot manager.
I tried to set it first, so it tried to boot from it before windows boot manager but it would not load at all.
 
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PhoenixBennu

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I installed RST and was able to finally see the drive.

it is labelled as OS

I was not aware that the OS was installed on the SSD, and I am wondering if this is normal to have all the windows files on the SSD and on the HDD as well. Both drives seem to have the windows, users, and program files, and all the normal stuff. Neither drive seems to be solely for storage.

I am wondering if this is normal or is there are two separate installs of windows. One on the SSD and one on the HDD and that the SSD was just not detected before so the OS was never loading from it and only from the HDD.

 
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PhoenixBennu

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Update:

Well I removed the 256gb SSD and booted. Everything booted like normal with no issues. It seems that the windows being used is solely installed on the HDD and the 256gb is a standalone drive with a separate windows install on it. For what purpose I do not know. I could not boot from the ssd when I tried earlier. It sent me to the windows boot recovery.

 
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