Issue Accessing SSD

[Jayrod9121]

I recently purchased a Samsung 850 EVO SSD (250 GB) for use in my current PC build. When I hooked it up to the Sata cables on my PC and started it up, i was not able to access the drive from inside of Windows. I restarted the PC and checked BIOS- the drive was listed in my Sata ports. However, it still was not accessible from Windows.

My current SSD (Boot drive with Win7 on it) and my HDD are perfectly fine and accessible, but the new SSD is not. The SSD came right out of the box and has nothing installed on it.

 

[USAFRet]

Open Disk Management
It should appear
In the bottom pane, right click on that drive
It should give you the option to Initialize
Do that, and whatever it says next.

 

[Jayrod9121]

Open Disk Management
It should appear
In the bottom pane, right click on that drive
It should give you the option to Initialize
Do that, and whatever it says next.

It is showing up in disc management, but There is no "initialize" option that I can see. Right clicking on the smaller left-hand box gives me the option to "Convert to Dynamic Disc" and "Convert to GPT Disc". The larger box gives me the option for "New Simple Volume".
I'm going to assume that the "New Simple Volume" option is the correct one, but just to be sure, could you confirm this for me?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes. New Simple Volume is what you want.

 

[Jayrod9121]

Yes. New Simple Volume is what you want.

It worked and I can access the drive perfectly fine. I will be installing Windows 7 on this drive in a near time, will i just be able to hook it up a PC with a Win7 install disc/flash drive and install it from there?

 

[USAFRet]

Yes. New Simple Volume is what you want.

It worked and I can access the drive perfectly fine. I will be installing Windows 7 on this drive in a near time, will i just be able to hook it up a PC with a Win7 install disc/flash drive and install it from there?

If that new PC is where it will live after the OS install, yes.