SSD Not showing up

[ReidMorin]

Hi all.

I installed an ssd recently, and it's not showing up on my devices and drives
I'm running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit, and I would like to set it up as my boot drive, but I have no idea where to start. As all tutorials seem to be just upgrading the SSD from a HDD. I would like to have both in my system, preferably without loosing all my stuff
Thanks

 

[drtweak]

You can clone your HDD to your SSD as long as the amount of data being cloned can fit on the SSD. Once the SSD is cloned, you change the boot order so the SSD boots up. Then once you know the SSD works good you can format your old Hard drive and use it for what ever you want.

If it a new SSD it has to be initilized. Right click on the Start menu and then go to Disk management. You should see the SSD with a Black bar. Over on the left where it says Disk X where X is the disk number it probably says offline. Right click on it and iniltize the disk. Then make sure all your data can fit on the SSD. if not either uninstall programs or move files off to another drive for the time being.

Then download Macrium Reflect, install it, clone your existing drive to your SSD, once done, reboot, enter BIOS (usually F2 or DEL depending on the motherboard) and then set your SSD to your first boot device. You see that it boots up MUCH faster. Once it is good go back into disk manangmenet, delete all the partitions on your old hard drive, then right click on it and make a new partition, format it, and you are good to go.

 

[CountMike]

Hi all.

I installed an ssd recently, and it's not showing up on my devices and drives
I'm running Windows 10 Pro 64 bit, and I would like to set it up as my boot drive, but I have no idea where to start. As all tutorials seem to be just upgrading the SSD from a HDD. I would like to have both in my system, preferably without loosing all my stuff
Thanks

Showing in BIOS, Device manager and/or disk management ?