I can't find my SSD in Disk Management

[tdisiere]

After days of searching, I had to ask for something specifically matching my problem...

I bought a brand new SSD from Best Buy to build my first gaming rig, thinking there would be no issues since its brand new right?

after putting it all together and booting up windows for the first time (from my old hard drive from another computer) I went to find the SSD to see about moving the boot files to there. it doesn't show in My Computer. It shows in BIOS, Device Manager, Intel Rapid Storage, and the SanDisk SSD Dashboard.

I just need to get it to be recognized by my pc but cant seem to get it recognized by the right program.

All the parts I have are listed below:

-CASE: Corsair Carbide 100R
-PSU: EVGA 600w
-MOBO: Asus ROG STRIX Z270E Gaming
-CPU: Intel i5-7500
-GPU: PNY GTX 1050 2G
-SSD: SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB
-HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM

Please help me with whatever info you have, I've dumped too much money into this to have an expensive paperweight...

 

[tdisiere]

Also, ive tried the "diskpart" thing in Command Prompt, it wont show in there either

 

[Ralston18]

As I understand your posts my recommendation is that you clone your HDD to the SSD and remove the HDD. Install the SSD in its' place.

Lots of online DIY's/tutorials to guide you.

Google "How to clone a drive" or similar words and phrasing to match your situation.

 

[smorizio]

if it a standard sata ssd and not an m2 or pci one. make sure in the bios sata section those are off. if there on a lot of the standard sata ports will be turned off. (ports 0 and one should be live.). also in the bios make sure the bios has the sata ports set to achi mode not raid or any other mode.