SSD and/or HD appears not to be available

[NotionCommotion]

Hi,

Just built my first PC. Intel Xeon E3-1231 V3 with a ASRock H97 Anniversary ATX LGA1150 Motherboard, A-Data Premier Pro SP600 128GB 2.5" Solid State, Seagate Barracuda 1TB, DVD, and EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti video card.

Slapped Windows 10 in and did a fresh install. Never installed drivers off any of the provided DVDs. Should I have? When partitioning the drives, it showed two and I couldn't delete them.

Note sure if I put Windows 10 on the SSD as I hoped to. Bios shows SATA-0 as the SSD, SATA-1 as the HD, and SATA-2 as the DVD. If I click each, it seems to show External SATA as "Disabled", Hot Plug as "Disabled", and SATA Device Type as "Hard Disk Drive". SATA Device Type has options of HD and SSD.

If I boot into Windows, it shows Disk C as 118 GB and Disk D as 14.4 GB

How do I verify which drive windows is installed on. How do I find out where the rest of the drive space is? Should I start over and install drivers before proceeding?

Thanks

 

[Hlsgsz]

Start over. Unplug the HDD and only leave the SSD.
Then, go into the BIOS and under "boot" disable CSM and enable "secure boot".

Get the latest drivers from here: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25165/Intel-Rapid-Storage-Technology-Intel-RST-RAID-Driver?product=55005
File: f6flpy-x64.zip. Unzip it to a folder on a USB drive(it can be teh one with windows on it).

Start the install and when it asks where to install hit "have disk" and point it to the folder you put the above files in.

then hit shift +f10 then:
diskpart
list disk
select disk x(x beeing the drive you are installing to)
clean
convert gpt
exit
exit

then hit refresh and select "create" to make a partition for windows as big as the SSD. windows will create several partitions(4) and auto-select the proper one to install to.

 

[Flyfisherman]

Hi,

Never installed drivers off any of the provided DVDs. Should I have?

yes

I strongly suggest that you unplug the HDD from the motherboard sata port and only have the SSD connected during Windows installation and then re-do the Windows installation.

But first, go into the BIOS Settings directly upon computer start and check so that you can see your ssd from there > then do a 'Load BIOS default setting' > check the Boot priority and change if necessary, but I suspect You will need to have the DVD as the first one > Save & Exit

After everything is installed including the drivers from the DVD > restart > run Windows update: Start > Settings > Update & Security
Restart the computer and run Windows update again and restart the computer. repeat this until there are no more Windows updates.

Shut down the computer, unplug the power cord from the wall outlet > connect the HDD to the sata port and start the computer > then format the HDD.

Best regards from Sweden