Disk not detected by diskpart

[HamsterHomie]

Hi, does anyone know why my SSD doesn't show up in Diskpart ? I have 2 disks ( 1Tb HDD & 256Gb SSD ). My whole system is on my HDD but it's not bigger than 200Gb so I want to clone it to my SSD. To do so I first wanted to clean the SSD completely so I used Diskpart. But when I entered list disk, it only listed Disk 0 (the HDD) and nothing else. I then checked the Windows Disk Management tool and this is what it shows :

 

When I open up file explorer, the disk cannot be accessed. An error message reports it as "non existant".

Is my disk broken or can it be salvaged ?

[emosun]

your ssd is there it just isn't formatted

Right click on all those partitions on the ssd and remove them ( if that's what you want to do) then click the entire open space and create a new volume and format it to anything , it'll then show up in windows and can be seen by file explorer or be cloned to with drive copy software

[Allan B]

are you running the command prompt as "administrator"?  If you close and open a new command prompt is it still missing?   If you are latest windows 10 or Windows 11 you can try the powershell command 'get-disk'.  Do you see both there?

 

You can just delete all the partitions in the GUI from your screenshot as @emosunsuggests as well.  It is not as easy as typing "clean", but it should work.     The only time i have seen diskpart missing drives is if you open it up before connecting a drive (like USB).    

[emosun]

2 minutes ago, Allan B said:

It is not as easy as typing "clean", but it should work. 

most people find clicking easier than typing regardless of other preferences

[HamsterHomie]

20 hours ago, emosun said:

Right click on all those partitions on the ssd and remove them

I can't delete them

19 hours ago, Allan B said:

powershell command 'get-disk'.  Do you see both there?

nope, I only see the HDD

[emosun]

put it in a different machine and do it from there