? SSD Not Recognised!

[SupersonicSaint]

Hello,
I just purchased this: https://www.hikvision.com/en/Products/Intelligent-Storage/Internal-SSD/Consumer-Class/HS-SSD-E1000N (512gb ver)
This is my current system before I purchased this new: SSD: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/TCKBD3
The screenshot attached shows that my SSD IS recognised but for some reason does not show up in devices and drives under This PC meaning I cannot use the SSD (Disk 2):
How can I fix this? My SSD is in the primary slot.

Thank you for any and all help.

[Slottr]

Right click on it in disk management and set a new volume.

[phoenixflower]

Just now, SupersonicSaint said:

Hello,
I just purchased this: https://www.hikvision.com/en/Products/Intelligent-Storage/Internal-SSD/Consumer-Class/HS-SSD-E1000N (512gb ver)
This is my current system before I purchased this new: SSD: https://pcpartpicker.com/b/TCKBD3
The screenshot attached shows that my SSD IS recognised but for some reason does not show up in devices and drives under This PC meaning I cannot use the SSD (Disk 2):
How can I fix this? My SSD is in the primary slot.

Thank you for any and all help.

 

Just now, Slottr said:

Right click on it in disk management and set a new volume.

the man has the plan.  go to disk management and set a new volume  

[SupersonicSaint]

3 minutes ago, phoenixflower said:

 

the man has the plan.  go to disk management and set a new volume  

How much free space should I leave. I want to transfer my OS to this device. Also... such an easy fix for something I was using complicated methods to try, and fail to fix haha.

[phoenixflower]

Just now, SupersonicSaint said:

How much free space should I leave. I want to transfer my OS to this device. Also... such an easy fix for something I was using complicated methods to try, and fail to fix haha.

I usually leave 10-20 GB free for provisioning.  It's up to you though.  It's even perfectly fine to not do that.  People only talk about doing that to extend the life a couple more years or to get a little bit more performance out of them.  There's math you could apply but it's normally for file systems that are more sensitive to partition sizes like ZFS.  NTFS doesn't care to the best of my knowledge.

[SupersonicSaint]

1 minute ago, phoenixflower said:

I usually leave 10-20 GB free for provisioning.  It's up to you though.  It's even perfectly fine to not do that.  People only talk about doing that to extend the life a couple more years or to get a little bit more performance out of them.  There's math you could apply but it's normally for file systems that are more sensitive to partition sizes like ZFS.  NTFS doesn't care to the best of my knowledge.

Well i'll leave 10gb. I have other storage anyway. Thanks a lot man.

[Windows7ge]

Yep like the others are saying you need to partition & format it. Right now it's a raw disk with no file system so Windows can't do anything with it.

 

You can create a partition/volume using your choice of Disk Management in Windows or DISKPART in CMD.