Hard Drive protection problems

[TubsAlwaysWins]

I am doing some hard drive swapping stuff for the buisness my dad works for. I have all of the drives i am using in my computer, but for some reason windows isnt detecting one of them. (Its an Samsung 850 evo 250GB). The drive is detected in my BIOS, but not in windows. please help. Thanks

[TheRandomness]

You need to assign a partition to it. I can't remember how though... Somewhere with the name Disk Management I think. If you've already done that I don't know

[Yali]

If it shows up in device manager:
go to computer management. Don't remember where exactly but if you search for in when you press windows it will come up.
Go to Disk Management.
Your drive will be there, assign it a drive letter (right click then go to Change Drive Letter and Path)
You may have to format it (right click > Format, use default settings)
If it doesn't show up in device manager:
I don't know for sure. May be a malfunction

 

-Kojin, @tomshardwareforum

 

 

[The Official Czex]

I am doing some hard drive swapping stuff for the buisness my dad works for. I have all of the drives i am using in my computer, but for some reason windows isnt detecting one of them. (Its an Samsung 850 evo 250GB). The drive is detected in my BIOS, but not in windows. please help. Thanks

 

What is its format? Is it in RAID or AHCI? Is there a proper partition?

[TubsAlwaysWins]

What is its format? Is it in RAID or AHCI? Is there a proper partition?

I have my boot ssd(not in raid)

2x Hitachi 250GB drives in raid 0

the old mechanical drive with data on it

the new ssd (850 evo) that will have a copy of that mechanical dirve

[N64CUBE]

I like the profile picture

[The Official Czex]

I have my boot ssd(not in raid)

2x Hitachi 250GB drives in raid 0

the old mechanical drive with data on it

the new ssd (850 evo) that will have a copy of that mechanical dirve

 

Make a partition on it.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Make a partition on it.

Doesnt even show up in disk managment. Do i need to leave RAID mode and enter AHCI?

[The Official Czex]

Doesnt even show up in disk managment. Do i need to leave RAID mode and enter AHCI?

 

Try it. 

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Try it. 

My PC wont even boot into AHCI mode. It says it had an Inacessable Boot Device

[The Official Czex]

My PC wont even boot into AHCI mode. It says it had an Inacessable Boot Device

 

Use RAID

 

Disconnect the SSD

 

Boot

 

Reconnect SSD

 

Wait

 

Does it show up?

[TubsAlwaysWins]

Use RAID

 

Disconnect the SSD

 

Boot

 

Reconnect SSD

 

Wait

 

Does it show up?

my boot ssd or the 850 ssd

[The Official Czex]

my boot ssd or the 850 ssd

 

The 850.

[TubsAlwaysWins]

The 850.

I am just going to do it on another much older desktop I own. I did try that earlier and it didn't seem to work. Thanks for the help though. I'll let you know if I have any more issus

[TubsAlwaysWins]

The 850.

I put it in that othee desktop and it worked nicely. i thin k it was because of my RAID setup. thank you for the help