Question Initialize Samsung SSD Through Boot

[Mashimaro77]

Okay, i know this is a complicated problem, but I bought a new laptop, MSI Katana 17.3', the SSD was tiny and there's only room for one unless i buy a bracket, so i thought i'd just buy a new one, and install Windows manually.

I bought this one, https://www.samsung.com/ca/support/model/MZ-V8P2T0B/AM/# which the MSI staff have informed me is compatible with the laptop. But it's not showing up in my Windows installation, i was informed that it probably wasn't initialized. I don't have another computer to put it in, my current laptop has only one ssd slot as well, not that i want to go through the process of opening it again haha.

I saw this video,

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csuJ-wSfeLo
which seems to be exactly what i need to do, however, i cant seem to find similar software for Samsung. There's just a "magician software" which can only be run through windows directly, and not through the windows setup. I'm at my wits end here, is there just no way to initialize this SSD without plugging it in to another computer? Well, if i could plug my current one in via USB or something that would be perfect. I was in touch with Samsung and they basically had no advice to offer me except "bring it in to a store and have them initialize it".

Thanks in advance.

 

[dwd999]

Normally when you install a drive you get a popup box asking whether you want an MBR or GPT partition table; and you select GPT. If you have a usb stick you can use you could use an external disk partitioning utility like Gparted which you would boot from the usb stick and create the GPT partition. Then the m.2 would be recognized, unless its defective. So the challenge would be to download Gparted or something similar, mount it on the usb stick with Rufus.ie or something similar and then boot that usb stick. If you think you can handle that you can start here:

https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-1.6.0-1-amd64.iso

 

[Mashimaro77]

Normally when you install a drive you get a popup box asking whether you want an MBR or GPT partition table; and you select GPT. If you have a usb stick you can use you could use an external disk partitioning utility like Gparted which you would boot from the usb stick and create the GPT partition. Then the m.2 would be recognized, unless its defective. So the challenge would be to download Gparted or something similar, mount it on the usb stick with Rufus.ie or something similar and then boot that usb stick. If you think you can handle that you can start here:

https://downloads.sourceforge.net/gparted/gparted-live-1.6.0-1-amd64.iso

I don't see a pop up, because i dont have windows installed. I tried Gparted, but it doesn't even boot up, it says "Invalid chipset" if i click any of the options

 

[dwd999]

I don't see a pop up, because i dont have windows installed. I tried Gparted, but it doesn't even boot up, it says "Invalid chipset" if i click any of the options

I just ran Gparted and checked. If there's a problem with your graphics chipset you should be able to run it in the Other modes, Safe Graphics mode. Wait 5 or 10 seconds for the linux loader junk to scroll by.

 

[Mashimaro77]

I just ran Gparted and checked. If there's a problem with your graphics chipset you should be able to run it in the Other modes, Safe Graphics mode. Wait 5 or 10 seconds for the linux loader junk to scroll by.

Ah, i got it figured out now. I needed to go to MSI's website, find my model, download the driver for intel rapid storage technology, put it on a flash drive, when i was selecting "Custom" and then my SSD wasn't showing up, i needed to click load driver, and install the above driver. Now i cant connect to the internet(internet driver down too?) so windows is not letting me proceed... lovely lol

I'm sure your way would've worked too, probably would've been a less painful solution, had i got Gparted to run haha. thank you.