[Solved] Catalina thinks NVMe SSD is an external drive.

[wild_eep]

MacOS Catalina thinks my internal M.2 NVMe SSD is an external drive. I found a solution that worked for me at this link on Reddit.

Essentially, you use Hackintool to find the device path of the storage device. In my case, the device path is: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)
From there, you edit your config.plist to add an entry under DeviceProperties and also set Kernel/Quirks/ExternalDiskIcons to true.

The step by step instructions are on the Reddit link above.

 

[rx3700]

Did the same thing a while back, someone should add this to the guide...

 

[tony535]

Nice!

Thank you this solved my orange icon showing up on the desktop.

 

[agent2]

Hey there this method worked a charm on my 2TB SSD and on my 3TB Hard Drive, but what can I change to make my HDD show up as a SATA disk and not a PCI one? That's kinda weird. Do I change the value or what?

 

[Fistandantilus1000]

Thansk so much!! if anyone need the path for the 2 NVMe in my MB (B450 Pro 4 Asrock) are

NVMe Macintosh SSD (M2_1):
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)

NVMe Windows OS (M2_2):
PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x3)/Pci(0x0,0x2)/Pci(0x8,0x0)/Pci(0x0,0x0)

 

[Gekaisme]

MacOS Catalina thinks my internal M.2 NVMe SSD is an external drive. I found a solution that worked for me at this link on Reddit.

Essentially, you use Hackintool to find the device path of the storage device. In my case, the device path is: PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)
From there, you edit your config.plist to add an entry under DeviceProperties and also set Kernel/Quirks/ExternalDiskIcons to true.

The step by step instructions are on the Reddit link above.

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Bro, help here. How to get PCIRoot address of from PC and covert it to Mac OS Format. Because iam stuck on Diskutil instalation page and cannot use Hackintool iam not succes yet instaling it.

Interestingly under Misc->Entries->0-> Path = PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x1,0x1)/Pci(0x0,0x0)/NVMe(0x1,11-22-33-44-55-66-77-88)/HD(1,GPT,00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000,0x800,0x64000)/\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI and set Enable=True a disk shown in Open Core instalatiion selection.