[SOLVED] Why can I only use an hdd, and not an ssd?

[MeltedSoloCup]

I am trying to add a second hard drive to my laptop. The SSD will not show up in window's information about my computer, but it will show up in my computer's bios. When I put an old broken HHD in though, it will show up in both the bios and windows.
When I contacted acer customer support about this, they said that it was because of the "size" of my SSD that would not allow it to work. The physical dimensions are the same for both my SSD and HDD, and the SSD's storage is only 250 GB while the HDD's is 320 GB.
They said it was not designed to have an SSD put into that slot, but I do not understand why. The only discrepancy I see is when you do go into the bios, it has the port listed as "HDD1" BUT the other hard drive that came with the computer is an SSD and it is in HDD0.

Laptop - Acer Aspire 5 (A515-43-R19L)
SSD - Samsung 870 Evo
HDD - Seagate Momentus 5400.6

 

[Darkbreeze]

If it shows up in the BIOS but not in Windows file explorer, then you probably need to create a partition and assign it a drive letter.

How to partition a hard drive

If you don't want all your files in one place, but only have a single hard drive to work with, never fear -- you can just partition it! Here's how.

www.digitaltrends.com

 

[Karadjgne]

It's a Samsung. Windows often times will not show Samsung, even though it's listed in Bios and Device Manager.

The answer is you need to format the ssd. It's best done in another pc (unless the laptop has a working OS drive) by downloading RUFUS (free software), which does recognise the drive, then use Rufus to format to NTFS/UEFI.

After that, it'll show up in My PC.