New Kingston 120GB Internal SSD (Not showing up)

[karlb85x]

Hi all, new here...

Having a problem with my newly purchased Kingston 120GB internal SSD.

Slotted it in the top of my case, booted windows 10 up, it didnt show up as a drive, however, it did show up in Disk Management. The only option I believe was "initialize" ... So I done that and it wanted to be formatted MBR, so I tried that and then it said device not connected or something... so I tried again, same thing, shut down pc, unplugged it and plugged it back in, started pc up again, now I cant even see it in DIsk Management....

Any help would be greatly appreciate as im getting quite frustrated now 😛

Cheers!

 

[USAFRet]

Well, no.
Its just a case of someone opening up the case, and poking around to see what if anything is not connected quite right.

Either you, or $omeone else.

 

[karlb85x]

That $omeone else will cost me $99AUD, the SSD was around 80.... I cant justify spending that. 🙁 Nor can I see how I would do this myself. Hence.... paper weight 🙁

 

[USAFRet]

Its actually easier than you think.

1. Flashlight
2. Power off
3. Take off the side panel
4. Look around, and touch/wiggle the cables that look like they are coming from the backside of that external dock location. See if anything is sort of loose.

 

[karlb85x]

I will have another look later, but it seems they go into another area that I cant see the connections to....

 

[karlb85x]

http://ibb.co/ca1DtR

Thats what leads to the top slot. I cant seem to remove them and they don't seem loose though i can't actually see the connection as they seem to go in there somewhere.

 

[karlb85x]

Ok, I just plugged it back in and it showed in Disk Management, I then initialized it.... it says it is "Online" "Unallocated" , Where do i go from here? When I right click it in Disk Manager the only options that arent greyed out are "Convert to Dynamic Disk" -- "Convert to MBR Disk" -- "Offline" and "Properties" / "Help"

 

[karlb85x]

I worked it out! new simple volume etc, its working! cheers!