SSD drives show up in BIOS and device manager, but not in Explorer or Diskmanager!

[Zombrah]

Hello,
I bought a now SSD Kingston v300 120GB and manually installed it into my computer.
BIOS recognized this drive, also the Device Manager. Yet I can't rename the drive (add a D: or F: on it) and its not visible in Explorer.
My OS is Windows 8.1 Pro N.
Do you think I connected the drive to the wrong SATA on my Mainboard?

Thanks for your help!

 

[Mattios]

Connect it to any SATA port and it should work.

Can you post a screenshot of your disk management?

 

[Zombrah]

I've captured it just like I see it.

http://imageshack.com/a/img540/3861/Ln3DLc.png

P.S.: Thanks for the quick response!

 

[Mattios]

Have a go at this -

'The problem may be you're not looking in just the right spot . Click Start, RIGHT-click My Computer in the window, then click on Manage from the menu. In the new Computer Management window expand "Storage" if necessary and click on Disk Management. I expect OP (damaster) and joses both have got this far. Now, examine the TWO right-hand panes. The upper one shows you only the devices Windows already knows how to use. The lower one, which SCROLLS, also shows you other devices Windows does not yet understand. Your new disk should be here with no letter name and no info. RIGHT-click on it and, from the menu, choose to Partition the drive. You'll have a choice of how big it should be and most likely want to use all the drive in one volume. (You can use only part of the space. If you do, when you are finished come back here and find the remainder shown as "Unallocated Space". You can create a second Partition or more in it if you want.) For this first Partition, make it the Primary or Active Partition, and NOT bootable because this drive is for data only - you already have a boot drive. When all the choices are made, go ahead with the Partition operation.

When that is done, come back to this new Partition and RIGHT-click again and choose to Format it. Choose the NTFS File System option. A Quick Format will do the job in 5 to 15 minutes. A Full Format will do a Quick Format, then go though every sector of the drive and test it, marking off any faulty ones (very rare) so they won't be used. Full Format takes many hours!

When you are done, reboot and your newly prepared hard drive should show up in My Computer as an empty unit ready for use.'

Extract from here http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/244697-32-sata-drive-detected-bios-windows-disk-management

 

[Zombrah]

Thank you for your reply. Yet here lies the problem.... there is NO device shown, known or unknown. I captured the howl window (Disk Management expanded, scrolled everywhere, clicked everwhere etc.) yet nothing is found:

http://imageshack.com/a/img673/3953/YChsQG.png

I have Kingstons Toolbox which actually shows me the SSD:

http://imageshack.com/a/img908/3889/70GtM8.png

I have no idea what conflict could happen, so I really appreciate your help

 

[Zombrah]

I just went back to check in device manager. There I just saw this:

http://imageshack.com/a/img538/6335/A7Nocd.png

Upon opening properties, I receive this:

http://imageshack.com/a/img913/4471/J3p1mh.png

Tried to install driver using automatic update from windows. Should I consider updating the BIOS, trying to download MSAHCI or something else?

P.S.: AHCI is enabled in BIOS

 

[Zombrah]

Sorry, but it still only shows the HDD, not the SDD in the Disk Manager:

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/a/img673/3953/YChsQG.png

 

[blukens]

I have the exact same problem, my SSD shows up in BIOS, shows up in Device Manager under Disk Drives, but does not show up under the Disk Management. did you ever get a solution?

I have moved the SATA cable to another connection, all it did was change the BIOS entry to show the physical change. As an old DOS guy, this is driving me driveless...

 

[blukens]

I'm having the same problem, SSD shows in BIOS and Device Manager, but not in Disk Managment or Explore.

Have a go at this -

'The problem may be you're not looking in just the right spot . Click Start, RIGHT-click My Computer in the window, then click on Manage from the menu. In the new Computer Management window expand "Storage" if necessary and click on Disk Management. I expect OP (damaster) and joses both have got this far. Now, examine the TWO right-hand panes. The upper one shows you only the devices Windows already knows how to use. The lower one, which SCROLLS, also shows you other devices Windows does not yet understand. Your new disk should be here with no letter name and no info. RIGHT-click on it and, from the menu, choose to Partition the drive. You'll have a choice of how big it should be and most likely want to use all the drive in one volume. (You can use only part of the space. If you do, when you are finished come back here and find the remainder shown as "Unallocated Space". You can create a second Partition or more in it if you want.) For this first Partition, make it the Primary or Active Partition, and NOT bootable because this drive is for data only - you already have a boot drive. When all the choices are made, go ahead with the Partition operation.

When that is done, come back to this new Partition and RIGHT-click again and choose to Format it. Choose the NTFS File System option. A Quick Format will do the job in 5 to 15 minutes. A Full Format will do a Quick Format, then go though every sector of the drive and test it, marking off any faulty ones (very rare) so they won't be used. Full Format takes many hours!

When you are done, reboot and your newly prepared hard drive should show up in My Computer as an empty unit ready for use.'

Extract from here http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/244697-32-sata-drive-detected-bios-windows-disk-management

 

[myonlyotaku]

I am having a similar issue with my Western Digital Black 1TB SSD NVMe in slot M.2_1 Bios recognizes it as a Storage device but won't let me set it up as an NVMe Device. My computer management doesn't recognize it under the storage tab, but if i double-click device manager>Disc Drives>it showsWDS100T2X0C-00L350, which is my NVMe drive. My PC is
-Windows 10 Pro
-i7-7700 (Non K) 3.6Ghz
-Asrock Z270 Killer SLI/AC LGA 1151
(https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813157746R?Item=N82E16813157746R )
-DDR4 2666Mhz 16GB (2x 8GB)
-Gigabyte GTX 1070 OC G1
-2TB HDD Toshiba
-EVGA 550Watt. It should be irrelevant as well as all my fans. and case,
-TP-Link AC1300 WiFi card.
-and the above NVMe SSD 1TB Western Digital in that slot.

 

[USAFRet]

I am having a similar issue with my Western Digital Black 1TB SSD NVMe in slot M.2_1 Bios recognizes it as a Storage device but

Please start a new thread for your particular situation.

Thanks.