Bought a Crucial M500 mSATA SSD, doesn't show up.

[KermitTheKrog]

As the tite says, the SSD does not appear and i do not wish to have windows boot on it, just for games and future steam OS. I have an MSI GE60 0NC and i don't know what to do. Do i need to do something on the BIOS? I am not too tech savy so if anybody could help i'd appreciate it.
Thanks!

 

[WyomingKnott]

The answer depends on where you are expecting it to "show up." My first guess is that you need to partition and format it; see this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265764-32-guide-installed-disk-system

And, of course, despite your disclaimer everyone is going to suggest that you install the OS on the SSD, as you will see a ridiculous improvement in responsiveness. But that's up to you.

 

[KermitTheKrog]

I will consider cloning the OS to the SSD in a couple of months but for now i just want to be able to use the drive to install games on it, as to make them load faster than they currently are.

Is that not possible in it's current state?
Also, the SSD shows in the BIOS, in the Device Manager and Disk Managment but not on my computer.

 

[tcottrell]

if it shows in the device manager and disk management, then that probably means that you need to partition it and format it. You will not usually see a drive listed in windows explorer, right out of the box. You have to partition and format first.

 

[KermitTheKrog]

And how can I do that? There is no such option in the management space.

 

[WyomingKnott]

Err, did you look at my link? I think it has pictures of the steps.

 

[KermitTheKrog]

Hello and sorry for the delay.

So i decided to go for booting through the SSD. I cloned thedrive with windows on on the SSD with Todo, and the PC restarted, though not through the SSD.
However, it does not appear on my computer, as stated before, nor does it appear on the BIOS. Under disk priority or so,there are five boot options but none with my SSD listed. However, in the BIOS again, somewhere else, the SSD is listed as Crucial etc.
http://www.srdrylmz.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/msi-ge60-bios.jpg
The picture above is not mine but it shows mostly what i can see on my bios. My boot mode is on UEFI. Throught disk management i cant format the drive, it looks as such : http://puu.sh/bFci3/b94d2eca24.png

I've read that RAID configuration may cause problems with the whole thing, is that true?

What should i do in order not to lose programs and data if the cloning did not work? I don't have a CD, the laptop came preinstalled.