Undoing Full Formatting of SSD

NYrican88

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Nov 11, 2016
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I stupidly fully formatted my SSD on my asus laptop (windows 10) Although the information on the SSD isn't important for me to recover, the laptop is no longer recognizing that there is an SSD at all anymore. How do I fix this?
 
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Welcome to Tom's Hardware, @NYrican88!

What do you mean by the laptop is not recognizing the SSD anymore? I'd recommend you go to the BIOS interface and check if the SSD is listed as the SATA booting device there. Since you have fully formatted it, I assume there's no OS installation on the drive as well. If that is the case, you need your Windows Installation media with same OS version that was running on the laptop previously and the SSD to reinstall the OS onto it.
It might also be a good idea to reset BIOS and see if this will help the laptop recognize the SSD properly. However, make sure you re-configure all the needed settings after the reset - set the SATA mode of the SSD to AHCI from the settings and...
Welcome to Tom's Hardware, @NYrican88!

What do you mean by the laptop is not recognizing the SSD anymore? I'd recommend you go to the BIOS interface and check if the SSD is listed as the SATA booting device there. Since you have fully formatted it, I assume there's no OS installation on the drive as well. If that is the case, you need your Windows Installation media with same OS version that was running on the laptop previously and the SSD to reinstall the OS onto it.
It might also be a good idea to reset BIOS and see if this will help the laptop recognize the SSD properly. However, make sure you re-configure all the needed settings after the reset - set the SATA mode of the SSD to AHCI from the settings and make sure it's listed in the boot order after the Windows installation media.

Hope this helps. Let me know how it goes.
SuperSoph_WD
 
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