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New SSD Not Showing Up? Please help!

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Go to Disk Management, right click on unallocated space, click Initialize Disk.

Alright, so I got a new Corsair Force LE 240 GB SSD, and I plugged in the power and SATA connectors properly. For some reason, it's not showing up on my computer. Did I forget something during the installation?

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Go to Disk Management, right click on unallocated space, click Initialize Disk.

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4 minutes ago, exercutor5 said:

Go to Disk Management, right click on unallocated space, click Initialize Disk.

You would be supersized how often people dont know about this.

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3 minutes ago, Luc401 said:

You would be supersized how often people dont know about this.

I am supersized alright.

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2 hours ago, exercutor5 said:

Go to Disk Management, right click on unallocated space, click Initialize Disk.

Thanks, you seem to know a lot. So I got that to work, then I cloned my old 120gb SSD onto the new 240gb one. Now the new drive seems to be split into 2 parts: "Healthy (Primary Partition)", and "Unallocated". Is this because I loaded only 120gb onto a 240gb drive? How can I fix this? thanks in advance :)

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40 minutes ago, mrjordann said:

Thanks, you seem to know a lot. So I got that to work, then I cloned my old 120gb SSD onto the new 240gb one. Now the new drive seems to be split into 2 parts: "Healthy (Primary Partition)", and "Unallocated". Is this because I loaded only 120gb onto a 240gb drive? How can I fix this? thanks in advance :)

Right click the unallocated section, I think there is a merge partition or something like that.

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16 hours ago, thatguyyouknow75 said:

95% of the "help my HDD isn't registering" posts are this

Do you think we should create a post with a guide on how to solve this and pin it?

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3 hours ago, Luc401 said:

Do you think we should create a post with a guide on how to solve this and pin it?

Sure, could feature several operating systems and a visual installation manual

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