Unable to format ssd

EvenOctopi · September 10, 2015

So i recently bought a SanDisk Ultra 2 480GB ssd when I attempted to format it the option was not there. Now for some reason the drive is also not in the top section of drives and I have no clue what that signals. I have never formatted a drive before so bear with me if its something stupid.

alexhelvetica · September 10, 2015

It is unallocated space.

Click new volume. Then format the drive

EvenOctopi · September 10, 2015

It is unallocated space.

Click new volume. Then format the drive

Thank you so much I feel like an idiot

Captain_WD · September 10, 2015

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Hey there EvenOctopi,

New drives will generally appear like this. They need to be initialized and then partitioned and formatted. Whenever you see unallocated space, you need to "create a new volume" and, as you saw, it will guide you through the process of creating a partition, formatting it and assigning it a letter. Here's more helpful info if you need it in the future: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=RnYl4n

Captain_WD.