SSD Help

[SmilesRising]

so i bought myself an SSD and now im installing it. i plugged in the connectors and all that but how do i make it work?

[Killervolt]

Is it a boot drive or a storage drive? If it's a secondary storage drive, boot up your computer, go to 'disk management' and format it, then it should show up in 'My Computer'.

[KraftDinner]

so i bought myself an SSD and now im installing it. i plugged in the connectors and all that but how do i make it work?

Plug in the PSU connecter and Sata connecter (I'm assuming you've done so since you said above)

 

Next:

 

Search "disk management" in the windows search bar and open that console >> You will see that there is an unallocated space of however many GB your new SSD is >> right click the unallocated space and click "new simple volume" >> The new simple volume wizard pops up and follow through the wizard, your SSD should be seen in windows explorer afterwards with the rest of your disks.

 

EDIT:

 

If this is the only drive in your PC and you need to boot an OS off of it to even access anything then you need to create a bootable USB and boot off of that, follow the install instructions and you're good to go.

[SmilesRising]

Plug in the PSU connecter and Sata connecter (I'm assuming you've done so since you said above)

 

Next:

 

Search "disk management" in the windows search bar and open that console >> You will see that there is an unallocated space of however many GB your new SSD is >> right click the unallocated space and click "new simple volume" >> The new simple volume wizard pops up and follow through the wizard, your SSD should be seen in windows explorer afterwards with the rest of your disks.

 

EDIT:

 

If this is the only drive in your PC and you need to boot an OS off of it to even access anything then you need to create a bootable USB and boot off of that, follow the install instructions and you're good to go.

i already have a 2tb harddrive so i bought this so i can have my OS on it.

[KraftDinner]

i already have a 2tb harddrive so i bought this so i can have my OS on it.

OK there is mulptiple ways you can put your OS on the new SSD, would you like to wipe the whole PC and start from scratch or just migrate your current OS over to the new SSD? Can you go into disk management and tell me if you see the disk in the first place it should be an "unallocated space"

[SmilesRising]

OK there is mulptiple ways you can put your OS on the new SSD, would you like to wipe the whole PC and start from scratch or just migrate your current OS over to the new SSD? Can you go into disk management and tell me if you see the disk in the first place it should be an "unallocated space"

 

This is what i see (its in swedish sorry)

 

https://gyazo.com/06311670333c666d58b00e6629f3d4d3

[KraftDinner]

This is what i see (its in swedish sorry)

 

https://gyazo.com/06311670333c666d58b00e6629f3d4d3

Yeah that looks good, Disk 0 is your SSD and it is unallocated, so what we need to do is right click >> Click "Create new simple volume" and follow the wizard. I can't understand Swedish so you'll have to read through the wizard just take your time,

[SmilesRising]

Yeah that looks good, Disk 0 is your SSD and it is unallocated, so what we need to do is right click >> Click "Create new simple volume" and follow the wizard. I can't understand Swedish so you'll have to read through the wizard just take your time,

when i right click the SSD the only option that comes up is "help" and if i press it it takes me to microsofts website...

 

Edit: oh wait i found it

[SmilesRising]

Yeah that looks good, Disk 0 is your SSD and it is unallocated, so what we need to do is right click >> Click "Create new simple volume" and follow the wizard. I can't understand Swedish so you'll have to read through the wizard just take your time,

its like this now https://gyazo.com/a3a7af9753b73aede9fdf4835e55a1f2

[KraftDinner]

its like this now https://gyazo.com/a3a7af9753b73aede9fdf4835e55a1f2

OK now you must right click it and format it to "NTFS" 

[SmilesRising]

OK now you must right click it and format it to "NTFS" 

ok now it says NTFS. now what?

[KraftDinner]

ok now it says NTFS. now what?

can you screen shot, just want to make sure

[SmilesRising]

can you screen shot, just want to make sure

https://gyazo.com/2f2caeba376ee6b26badec7cc1c802ed

[KraftDinner]

https://gyazo.com/2f2caeba376ee6b26badec7cc1c802ed

OK everything looks good, now did you want to migrate your existing OS to the SSD or did you want to do a clean install?

[SmilesRising]

OK everything looks good, now did you want to migrate your existing OS to the SSD or did you want to do a clean install?

i want to move my windows to it so i can boot up faster.

[KraftDinner]

i want to move my windows to it so i can boot up faster.

OK if you want to move the OS over you can follow this video and the guy will show you how to move an OS from one drive to another:

 

[SmilesRising]

OK if you want to move the OS over you can follow this video and the guy will show you how to move an OS from one drive to another:

 

ok great, thanks for your help