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Hello, Just installed my kingston 480GB sata ssd and need a bit of help with the setup I'm unsure on which one to choose in terms of MBR or GPT I have researched but nothing makes any sense as a pc noob XDD. Any help would be greatly appreciated. The image below explains it all. Thanks!
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issue: TeamGroup MP33 1tb NVMe drive not being detected in Disk Management tool, hence can not initialize or partition the drive for use. Motherboard: ASRock B450M Steel Legend. NVMe installed in m.2_2 port. Attempted Fixes: confirmed SATA BIOS settings. consulted manual which says SATA3_3 and m.2_2 share PCIE lanes so SATA3_3 has been unplugged and the drive shows up in device manager and BIOS. checked for any driver updates anywhere that may apply and found none. Current status: The drive is visible only as a long serial number in the device manager and BIOS, but does not show up in the Disk Management tool at all. The issue is not how to initialize a new disk, the issue is the disk is not visible to initialize and partition at all, just to be clear. I know how to initialize a drive...i just cant see the damn thing in disk management. Hopefully this is an easy fix by now, but I checked several old similar posts that seemed to have gone nowhere. -
Hi friends, I'm a first time PC builder and I built my first PC 2 days ago, everything went perfectly besides the fact that every 15-45 minutes I get the 'usb disconnected' noise, I had a look around in the Event Viewer and it told me that 'Disk 4 has been surprise removed." when I don't actually have a disk 4 (I get disk 2 and 3 appear as well)... I have a disk 0 (D Drive) and Disk 1 (C Drive). I really don't know what to do about it, google and a PC friend of mine has been no help. :( -
Dear you, I have had a thought of figuring out what the heck the Disk Management on my C; drive means but I have only gotten x knowledge. I ask now of you, do you know if you can or if its worth it to expand Recovery Image (in my case D; drive) or one of the "Healthy (Recovery Partition)" (in my case J; drive). If anyone knows anything about this let me know. Or if you just want to drop facts about disk management in general that would be much appreciated. My drive as an example (or is it?) Fare thee well, GEESMAN
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Hi everyone, in desperate need of some help with my drive disappearing. I "upgraded" to windows 11 in Jan and my HDD connected via SATA is not on disk management anymore. Other SSDs arent showing up either. Pretty much anything connected via SATA (my m.2 drives are fine) - They show up on bios - Ive swapped out drives/cables ... still nothing - reinstalled / flashed bios - reinstalled windows! - downloaded chipset drivers etc. - bunch of other stuff. When loading windows 10 it shows up but not on windows 11 for some reason. I just finished installing all of my apps and dont want to downgrade to windows 10 and start fresh if it can be avoided. Microsoft cant help me (I just get "wait for an update" from them) Has anyone else had this issue or any ideas how I can get my drive back and have it show in disk management again. Thanks!! -
Hi all I plan to buy a Samsung 970 Plus 1 TB as storage drive and maybe an additional Samsung 970 Plus 240GB or 500GB for boot drive. I know SSDs do not function like HDDs. Nevertheless, I am wondering if there is any advantage to use multiple M.2 SSD (boot and storage drive separated) compared to a single M.2 SSD (boot and storage drive not separated). Does two M.2 NVMe SSD have any advantage over a single M2. NVMe SSD? If I use multiple M.2 SSD, will it better to have the faster M.2 SSD as boot drive or as storage drive? An issue here is, that the M.2 SSD with smaller capacity has less speed than the SSD with higher capacity (240GB < 500 GB < 1 TB). If I just use one M.2 SSD, does partition it affect its performance? Can I freely partition a M.2 SSD with disk management? For example, can I just partition my 1 TB M.2 SSD to 188 GB and 812 GB? Or are there any things to consider like partition alignment that only allow me to partition my SSD to a specific size? I have upgraded my PC for the first time, and I would appreciate your help!
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Hi guys, I am having some weird troubles and I dont really know what to do. Been bashing my head against the wall without knowing whats going on. I recently bought a new SSD, pluged it in with SATA 6GB/S and looked into my BIOS and everything was fine. Went into my Disk management window (google translation) and yeah... its not showing up in black D: No idea what I did wrong and I couldnt find anything like this anywhere?
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I finally got my SSD installed and set up as my boot drive, it booted up fine and everything felt fine, but when I open my disk management it looks like something might be wrong. anybody know what I have to do to set up the old HDD just for media storage? attached is a screenshot of what disk management looks like and what "this pc" looks like
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So I just installed a new 2tb HDD. It told me to pick a partition style and I chose GUID. I went to format it and when I right click, there's no format button. I am assuming this is an easy fix, but I honestly don't know what is wrong. I tried formatting it before choosing the partition style and that didn't work either. There's no error message, but just no "format" button for that drive specifically. Thanks! https://gyazo.com/fcbf26d4773498d98707c742194bfeb8
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Ordered THIS drive from Newegg. Received it yesterday and mounted it to my case, hooked it up with a SATA cable to motherboard, and a SATA power cable from my power supply. Noticed the drive wasn't showing up in the BIOS, however it was appearing in Windows Disk Management as (Disk 1), my main dive (Disk 0) is a 250GB Samsung 750 EVO SDD. Also it was showing as Unknown Disk with 0GB of space in Windows Device Manager. I then opened Disk Management, and as soon as it opened it automatically prompted me to initialize the drive as GPT, I attempted to do this and got the error message "The specified disk is not convertible because the size is less than the minimum size required for GPT disks." I then attempted to initialize it in MBR mode, then received this error message "The system cannot find the file specified." So far I have tried using different brand new sata cables, tried different motherboard sata ports, and tried uninstalling/reinstalling the drive and drivers. None of this has seemed to work. I am wondering if it is just a bad drive. Please help me out if you can. Thanks for reading! Here are the rest of the specs on my system (Which I just built last week) MSI Z170A SLI Motherboard Core i3 6100 MSI ARMOR GTX 1060 6GB 16GB GSkill Ripjaws V 250GB SSD (Samsung 750 EVO) 750W EVGA Supenova B1 Semi-Modular PSU -
I don't know if this is the proper place to post this but, when I use GParted, a lot of partition types are grayed out and Ubuntu doesn't recognize some of them like ExFAT, is there a way to have GParted format any partition to any drive type? This is what I mean:
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HDD Shows up in BIOS and via external USB (Sharkoon Drivelink 2.0) but not in Disk Management when connected internally. Formatted my 1.5TB HDD last night (took like 8 hrs) via my Sharkoon↴. The problem was still here before i formatted. Here's also a pic from BIOS -
Hey, I realise this problem may have been covered before but I am having a hard time finding anything on it, or rather anything pertaining to my specific case. I also apologize if I've put this in the wrong place, I wasn't sure which board to post on.If you know exactly what I'm talking about (I... kind of don't...) and know where I might find my answer please feel free to simply point me in that direction. Hear me out first, though.I'm fully upgrading my PC, and by that I mean I am replacing everything except for my hard drives and PSU. I'd like to format my SSD and do a clean install of Windows onto it when it's in the new PC. As far as I know I should be able to do that without having to buy a new copy of Windows as my copy is attached to my Microsoft Account. If not... I'll buy a new copy I guess. Hopefully I won't have to, but it's not something I won't stomach for this new PC to become a reality, lol.Anyway, there is a bunch of other stuff on my SSD along with the OS. Some games, docs, music, all my mail, other programs and stuff I don't necessarily need, etc...What I want to do is move all of that stuff onto my HDD (which has more than enough space to hold all of it) and leave ONLY the OS on the SSD, so that I can format it, then do a clean install (from a USB) after I put it in the new PC.I guess I'm asking if this is at all possible and whether I will have to use some kind of backup program and then restore the files on the new PC or if I can just copy stuff from the SSD to the HDD manually while leaving the OS alone, and in that case which folders should I not touch?I understand this seems like a simple problem, but I'm really worried about just moving a bunch of stuff and having it not work properly, or moving stuff I shouldn't, or doing something like moving the drivers for my current GPU (is that even possible??) and having them around where I don't need them.I'm sure you can tell, I'm just very inexperienced and while I can confidently build a PC, all this software and disk management stuff leaves me lost in the woods.Any help would be super appreciated! I'll be happy to provide any more information needed. -
Can someone help me? For some reason I can't assign a drive letter to my external hard drive and I can't see it in File Explorer. I also can't see it in File Explorer.
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Following bad advice I disabled my m.2 ssd. Is there a way to re-enable it? There was not data on it so I am not worried about loss. It is recognized in the bios but not in disk management or the samsung magician software.
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Hello i noticed that everytime i search for music files or anything it's always searching my F drive instead of my C Drive i tried changing the windows indexing settings to the C drive but it just ignores me and still just continues to search the F drive. I don't know why it searches the F drive when that isn't the main Drive. The C drive is the main drive. Take a look at this https://gyazo.com/a27a588d71ef396cda52668b5d2e3ac3 as you can see it just ignores the C drive completely. Also take a look at the image where i search for a music file and it searches it from the F Drive and not the C Drive if anyone knows a proper fix for this please let me know and don't just say reinstall windows cause thats something we want to avoid. Thanks Using Windows 10 Pro Version Version 10.0.17763 Build 17763
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I've noticed that Disk 3 and 4 never has anything connected to them but they always remain open in 'This PC' and 'Disk Management' does window just save these spots for certain things or something else? It bothers me every time I see them cause i don't know what is up with them. - Always shows up empty - Nothing ever gets assigned to be F: or H: when something gets plugged in - Why is it removable?
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Expanding/redoing my storage, but decided to buy before researching. I have 4 3TB HDDs and 2 6TB HDDs and I'm looking for better then HDD performance with fault tolerance. I had RAID 5 setup, but read in many places that with drives larger then 2TB one of my other drives would most likely die before a rebuild would complete. If this is so then RAID 5 and really 6 are both out (even with 6 I'd rebuild, probably have another die during the rebuild and then have to rebuild again after it was finished...repeat until all drives are replaced or get lucky). So, I figured RAID 10 (with three groups of RAID 1 [3+3]+[3+3]+[6+6]) would work...until I remembered RAID 0 requires the same size volumes, so I'd lose out on half my 6TB drive storage. This brings me to two options that I can think of RAID 10 (with two groups of RAID 1 [3+3+6]+[3+3+6]) or RAID (5E or 6)/1 + 0 (With my 3TB drives RAID 5E or 6; my 6TB RAID 1; then those under RAID 0) or setup the 3TB in RAID 0 for performance and 6TB spanned for backup. I again don't like the idea of RAID 5/6 if i'll have that rebuild loop, but the two group RAID 10 doesn't feel good (very little knowledge, so if its fine tell me and I can through it out of my mind) and the backup means if something happens I have to transfer everything one-way or the other. Other ideas are always welcome. This is for a plex media server on Windows Server 2012 R2, where I have 6TB of content which I planned to grow and I really don't want to have to rip my movies again. It took weeks. That's why I want the redundancy. The performance is just so I can watch a movie while the kids each watch something, have all of use stream at original quality and have no buffer hiccups for anyone. I have spent many hours (15+ that I can remember), trying to get a RAID 10 like setup that could expand seemlessly...it doesn't appear to exist ?. Help, please.
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I want to dual boot win 10 and Ubuntu.. But the partition on c : is very small.. Can anyone give me steps to create a partition.. Because everyone's freaking me out saying that partition making causes a lot of troubles and break the OS.. Please help! ?
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I recently purchased an external hard drive docking station, formatted a few Western Digital(WD's) and all went well started storing files immediately. After a few days my pc didn't recognize the drive. It was there in Disk Management(DM) but the drive letter disappeared. Had to reassign a new letter & all good, files were there & back to normal. When I tried to use my original drive letter 'G' it would not let me I had to choose a new one, I selected 'B', said 'G' was in use but doesn't show up in DM. I have 2 other WD's in my case that work fine and never had an issue with drive letters disappearing. Any thoughts as to why this happened?
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I just built a new gaming PC. The CPU, motherboard, PSU, and RAM are all new. I bought a second, Western Digital Blue 1TB HDD. Windows 10, and all of my other files, are installed on a different disk that I carried over from my first PC. I just wanted two disks. Well, Windows doesn't recognize the new Western Digital. If I go to Disk Management, the new 1TB disk shows up as Disk 0 with a black bar above it. It also says, "unallocated." If I right click on Disk 0, the options for New Spanned Volume and New Striped Volume are greyed out; I can't click on them. What I can click on is Convert to Dynamic Disk, Convert to MBR Disk, Properties, and Help. No other right click options are available. What do I need to do? If I need to provide additional information, please tell me what needs clarified. I'll do whatever I can to facilitate someone smarter than me solving this problem.
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Secondary HDD Doesn't Show Up In Disk Management
DrippingChocolate posted a topic in Troubleshooting
I just recently built my first pc and I was trying to get my secondary hdd to show up in file explorer but it doesn't. I doesn't show up in disk management however it does show up in device management and the bios. Is there anyway I can fix this? -
Hi, I took out my drives when I was diagnosing my computer, plugging only my 960gb boot ssd back in when I reinstalled everything into my computer. Now, when I need to use my dvd and hard drive, Windows is not recognizing either at all in disk management, my computer, and device manager any help is appreciated. -
Welp, here we go. It's been about 3 years since I have had access to my old laptop's hard drive. One day it simply stopped working. I am not sure exactly what caused this, as at the time I was not as tech-savvy as I am now and did not know what to look for. When I try to access the drive now through a good ol' SATA connection, my new system sees the drive but is incapable of reading it. Stranger still is what my computer does when I plug the drive in. All of a sudden disk management cannot open up, and neither can the hard drive de-fragging tool. This problem is fixed if I shut down the hard drive, prompting me to think something is very, VERY wrong with my drive. I assume none of my data is recoverable, but wanted to post this to see if anyone has any ideas I have not come up with yet. Rest in peace my beautiful MatLab code that turned flashing light into binary and then binary into hexadecimal and then hexadecimal into a string of characters determined by a random seed generator. RIP. *Note: Drive is a 2.5" toshiba 1 TB drive
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So I was working on one of external drives. I took all the data i wanted. Went to disk management. I first deleted the pre-existing volumes, and deleted the partitions. Then I created a new simple volume. I gave it a format, but during the format i nudged my laptop and drive disconnected. Now on connecting it, even though I hear the alert of a device being connected, and the LED blinking on the drive's case, it isn't showing up on MY PC, but it is showing up on disk management. What do I do???
