Question Can't get my New SSD to show up on Bios/Disk manager/Windows Explorer.

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What I'd like to do, is replace my existing 250 gig boot drive (and my only drive) with the new drive.

Is that possible? I do have a 250GB thumb drive.

Would there be a way to put my operating system on that thumb drive, swap the new 1TB with the old 250 and then format the new SSD off the thumb drive?

If this is a ridiculous idea, my apologies.

Windows 10 64
Intel core i7 8700k
16 ram
MSI Z370-A Pro
223GB Western Digital WDC Sata SSD.
 
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What I'd like to do, is replace my existing 250 gig boot drive (and my only drive) with the new drive.

Is that possible? I do have a 250GB thumb drive.

Would there be a way to put my operating system on that thumb drive, swap the new 1TB with the old 250 and then format the new SSD off the thumb drive?

If this is a ridiculous idea, my apologies.

Windows 10 64
Intel core i7 8700k
16 ram
MSI Z370-A Pro
223GB Western Digital WDC Sata SSD.
Yes, just use a program like Macrium Reflect free to make full disk backup to USB and then Restore it to new drive.
With MR installed it can make a "Rescue USB" with which you BOOT after swapping disks. From it you just point to where resulting file (.mring extension) is and it will restore backup to new drive.
https://www.macrium.com/products/home
 
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Would there be a way to put my operating system on that thumb drive, swap the new 1TB with the old 250 and then format the new SSD off the thumb drive?
This is a desktop. Right?
Just connect both drives to your pc and perform cloning. You'll need additional sata cable.
There's no need for any thumb drives.

Note - first boot from cloned drive has to be done with old drive physically disconnected.
If you fail to do this, you'll have to redo cloning.

What are model names of both your drives?
Are any of them M.2 ?

1. New drive has to be detected in BIOS first.
If it isn't, then something is wrong:
drive not properly connected,​
wrong bios settings,​
drive not compatible with system,​
drive dead.​
2. After BIOS detection is resolved, drive has to be detected in windows.
Check:
Device Manager - disk drives and storage controllers sections,​
Disk Management,​
Windows Storage Spaces (Control Panel\Storage spaces).​
Show screenshots (upload to imgur.com and post link)
3. You can do cloning only after drive has been properly detected in windows.
 
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