Hard drive was not recognized

John haswell · April 3, 2014

Today I put a samsung 840 pro into a secondary drive bay in a dell laptop and when I booted the pc the drive was not recognized. Even when samsungs magician software did a scan. I tried rebooting and it did not help. I am unaware of any drivers that need to installed.

roberto++ · April 3, 2014

This SSD comes unformatted, you will need to format first to see within windows

To do this, right click my computer > manage > disk management. At this point it will most likely alert you that you have an uninitialized drive, initialize the drive, then you can format to show the drive in windows.

Today I put a samsung 840 pro into a secondary drive bay in a dell laptop and when I booted the pc the drive was not recognized. Even when samsungs magician software did a scan. I tried rebooting and it did not help. I am unaware of any drivers that need to installed.