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Solved. I placed the SSD into HDD bay and Loaded Hiren's Boot CD through usb. After that I was able to complete quick format, bringing it back to normal status. I also beleive the usb>sata cable was malfunctioning. Tried another sata HDD and it did not load up. Never going back to that cable...

After restarting it shows up. Formating resulted in "windows failed to format", although deselecting quick format and it started to show some progress.

Now its not showing up at all. Nothing detects the drive. I just hear the usb connect sound. Going to try restart.

Nope. My computer only has 1 bay. The ssd kit came with a usb cord(similar to a dock) which is attach to the ssd via sata interface.

It was a samsung 830 series 128gb. It came with samsung ssd magician but it doesnt detect the ssd drive, only my stock c: drive

i think windows "diskpart" 'clean' function had removed the mbr/all data/ and everything else. Most programs dont detect it as a drive (example"c:" with size). It only shows up as disk # and takes aprox 5 min to detect.

i would secure erase.....but it doesnt show up any where except when you run win recovery cd to format (failed to format) or running windows management. This is what im doing now....I running control panel>administrative tools>computer management/storage/disk managment and is able to detect the...

Ran diskpart from cmd prompt to clean ssd. now having trouble getting it to work. ssd is attach to computer via usb adaptor (basically a external ssd). i want to prep it for windows 7. what do i do next? on windows vista