SSD not detected by Windows

[taha6885]

Hi all, I bought a PNY XLR8 120GB SSD and I've put it in my computer and set it up, my motherboard is a Asrock 970 Extreme4 and I can detect the SSD in my BIOS but not in Windows. I wanna install Windows on this SSD and completely reset my PC, why isn't my PC detecting my SSD?

 

[ksham]

Is the SSD formatted? Does it have a partition table? Any partitions in it at all?

 

[taha6885]

Is the SSD formatted? Does it have a partition table? Any partitions in it at all?

I can't even see it. I see it in the Device Manager which says that it's working fine, I can see it in the BIOS as well but I can't see it in My Computer or Disk Management, rendering the whole SSD useless. I can't use it at all. I've even set it as my first priority boot device, even though it doesn't have Windows or anything. I'm using Windows 8.1 Pro.

 

[Lmah]

Right click on "This PC" (Windows 8/8.1) or My Computer (all previous versions) then go to manage. Find the drive under the disk drives section, right click it and format it.

 

[ksham]

You have not answered any of my questions. If it is not formatted or has no partitions, there's nothing to read. It's just a blank drive.

 

[smorizio]

check that it has the newest firmware on it with the tool disk that came with the drive on from the ssd vendor web page also see if the vendor (drive wipe tool sees the ssd). in your bios make sure it set to achi mode not raid or ide and make sure the ssd on the intel or amd sata ports.

 

[taha6885]

Right click on "This PC" (Windows 8/8.1) or My Computer (all previous versions) then go to manage. Find the drive under the disk drives section, right click it and format it.

There's no option to format it.

You have not answered any of my questions. If it is not formatted or has no partitions, there's nothing to read. It's just a blank drive.

It's not formatted, I don't know how to format it if I can't find it in the My Computer folder where you can also see the Local Disk drive.

check that it has the newest firmware on it with the tool disk that came with the drive on from the ssd vendor web page also see if the vendor (drive wipe tool sees the ssd). in your bios make sure it set to achi mode not raid or ide and make sure the ssd on the intel or amd sata ports.

I bought it from a big electronics store around two hours ago, and nothing came with it except for the SSD itself and a Serial ATA cable which I have replaced with a SATA 6GB/s cable because I thought that would help. Should I switch back to the Serial ATA cable?

I have also tried to enable RAID Mode in my BIOS settings, but it didn't work.

 

[onichikun]

Hi all, I bought a PNY XLR8 120GB SSD and I've put it in my computer and set it up, my motherboard is a Asrock 970 Extreme4 and I can detect the SSD in my BIOS but not in Windows. I wanna install Windows on this SSD and completely reset my PC, why isn't my PC detecting my SSD?

Goto the PNY site and download the firmware updater; see if that helps..

Also, what driver is being loaded for the drive under device manager?

 

[taha6885]

Hi all, I bought a PNY XLR8 120GB SSD and I've put it in my computer and set it up, my motherboard is a Asrock 970 Extreme4 and I can detect the SSD in my BIOS but not in Windows. I wanna install Windows on this SSD and completely reset my PC, why isn't my PC detecting my SSD?

Goto the PNY site and download the firmware updater; see if that helps..

Also, what driver is being loaded for the drive under device manager?

Not sure what you mean with what driver is being loaded. This is the driver version if that helps: 6.3.9600.16384. The driver name is SSD2SC120G3LC709 SCSI Disk Device. And for the firmware updater, I'm downloading it now but I can't find my SSD's latest firmware anywhere on their site.

Update: The firmware updater tool doesn't detect my SSD.

 

[smorizio]

sounds like you got a dead ssd.

 

[pat12345]

I also had this problem. I wanted to clone my current boot drive instead of installing a fresh Windows install. Even though the SSD was not being detected in "my computer" I went ahead and ran the Seagate DiskWizard (you can find it on their website it's free). It saw the SSD and I selected it as a destination drive. Everything cloned over onto it just fine (which I assume it formatted it? I don't know though.) I think you can also use the DiskWizard to format a drive and maybe then it'll show up in my computer.

What you should try is to just go ahead and run the windows installation with only the SSD plugged into your computer. The BIOS should detect it and windows will format and install itself on the SSD.

 

[jstromsoe]

You need to right click computer, go to manage. Go to disk management. See it now? It should be somewhere under "Volumes". Right click on it and assign it a drive letter using "Change Drive Letters and Paths". Click "Add". Use the default drive letter and click OK.

If that doesn't work, Google "diskpart". Enjoy.