[SOLVED] Windows 10 cannot find Samsung 980 Pro (SSD). What to do?

[Marplot]

I installed a Samsung 980 Pro 2TB (SSD) in my MSI MAG X570 Tomahawk WiFi Motherboard with AMD Ryzen 7 5700G. Recent build.

There are two places for slots. M1 and M2. I used the second M2 slot to install the Samsung 980 Pro 2TB. I can find the drive in my boot menu, and with Samsung Magician.

But cannot find the drive with Explorer? Any ideas? There seem to be a plethora of ideas from upgrading BIOS to format the drive. I am of intermediate knowledge about computers.

What should I do?

 

[USAFRet]

Please show us a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Likely the 980 is simply not formatted and has no drive letter.

 

[kerberos_20]

opendisk management (right click start button and it will be there in that list) and initialize your drive

then u click on that initialised drive and create simple volume

 

[Marplot]

https://imgur.com/GDqHVcY

View: https://imgur.com/GDqHVcY


Disk 4

This is what I get when I first open Disk Management. Then I go to "View" , "Top List," then "Disk " and the above screen shot opens. At first I don't see Samsung.

https://imgur.com/KWq8oYY

View: https://imgur.com/KWq8oYY

 

[Marplot]

kerberos_20. I don't see the "initialise disk" as in your first popup. I see the others you show, but not this part.

Digging a little deeper and found what you were telling me! GREAT!

 

[kerberos_20]

scroll down to disk 4, right click on unallocated space and create volume there