My ssd doesn’t work

[Oscar Connolly]

I got an nvme ssd for my birthday and I installed it and went straight to bios to set it as my boot drive. I save changes and reboot but it says to enter a boot drive and press a key. I go back to bios thinking I have to download windows to my ssd, and set the boot drive back to my hard drive. I go into windows and it’s fine, until I go into file explorer and the ssd doesn’t come up as a drive. I remove it and reinstall it but it doesn’t come up in file explorer. I’m not sure why this is as it came up as a boot option in the bios.

[homeap5]

You want to boot new, empty drive? Nevermind - if you want to see your drive in system, enter devmgmt.msc and initialize it.

 

[Naijin]

8 minutes ago, Oscar Connolly said:

I got an nvme ssd for my birthday and I installed it and went straight to bios to set it as my boot drive. I save changes and reboot but it says to enter a boot drive and press a key. I go back to bios thinking I have to download windows to my ssd, and set the boot drive back to my hard drive. I go into windows and it’s fine, until I go into file explorer and the ssd doesn’t come up as a drive. I remove it and reinstall it but it doesn’t come up in file explorer. I’m not sure why this is as it came up as a boot option in the bios.

Did you install Windows on it? If not, use your current drive and download Windows, install it to a USB drive and reboot using that USB drive. Then when installing, choose the empty NVMe drive. The MediaCreationTool by Microsoft can do this for you, you can find it here

[RadiatingLight]

It probably doesn't have any partitions on it.

If you want to use it as a windows boot device, you're fine. It will create partitions when installing windows.

if you want to use it as storage (or just to see it to make sure it's working) go to "Create and format hard disk partitions" in windows, right click on the drive, and create a new simple volume.