SSD not being recognized

[OnionRings]

Just got a new SSD, installed it, plug in the sata and the power, booted up, not in my windows area, check bios and nothing there either. Not sure if dead sata cable, dead power cable, or DOA drive. Help?

[oskarha]

Check device manager.

[Princess Luna]

Go to Windows Disk Management and see if it is listed there, you might just need to attribute it a letter through there.

[OnionRings]

2 minutes ago, oskarha said:

Check device manager.

It appears there yes, how do I get it to show in my bios though so I can set it as the boot drive?

[oskarha]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

It appears there yes, how do I get it to show in my bios though so I can set it as the boot drive?

First you will need to install windows on the drive.

Then there is probably an option in the uefi to set the hard drive boot priority.

[OnionRings]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Go to Windows Disk Management and see if it is listed there, you might just need to attribute it a letter through there.

http://prntscr.com/dxd034 its there on the left but not in the drive list.

 

1 minute ago, oskarha said:

First you will need to install windows on the drive.

Then there is probably an option in the uefi to set the hard drive boot priority.

I wanted to clone it, can I still clone it without windows and my bios recognizing it?

[Wolther]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

http://prntscr.com/dxd034 its there on the left but not in the drive list.

 

I wanted to clone it, can I still clone it without windows and my bios recognizing it?

Assign a partition and give it a letter 

[OnionRings]

1 minute ago, Wolther said:

Assign a partition and give it a letter 

I'm a dumbass and this is not only my first SSD but my first time having more then 1 drive, how does do?

[oskarha]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

http://prntscr.com/dxd034 its there on the left but not in the drive list.

 

I wanted to clone it, can I still clone it without windows and my bios recognizing it?

The reason your are not seeing the drive in explorer is because its not formatted.

If you want to clone your current drive to the SSD, go ahead and the cloning software will sort out the partitions for you.

One easy way of making the SSD number one in the boot priority is to move it to the first sata port (eg sata 0 or 1)

[Wolther]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

I'm a dumbass and this is not only my first SSD but my first time having more then 1 drive, how does do?

Right click the unallocated space. It'll give you a list of options to do. Should be pretty easy to figure out from there 

[OnionRings]

1 minute ago, oskarha said:

The reason your are not seeing the drive in explorer is because its not formatted.

If you want to clone your current drive to the SSD, go ahead and the cloning software will sort out the partitions for you.

One easy way of making the SSD number one in the boot priority is to move it to the first sata port (eg sata 0 or 1)

I did move it to 0 (my hdd is on 1) after it didn't work on 3 or at least when I thought it wasn't working, I'm getting the acronis software now provided on adata's site to clone the drive.

[OnionRings]

1 minute ago, Wolther said:

Right click the unallocated space. It'll give you a list of options to do. Should be pretty easy to figure out from there 

Do I do this before or after cloning?

[oskarha]

1 minute ago, Wolther said:

Right click the unallocated space. It'll give you a list of options to do. Should be pretty easy to figure out from there 

If OP is going to clone the drive he does not need to format the drive before he clones the data.

Proper cloning software should be able to take care of this step.

I personally use AOMEI Backupper to clone my drives.

http://www.backup-utility.com/free-backup-software.html

[Wolther]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

Do I do this before or after cloning?

Well, it was either do it manually or have it do it automatically. the cloning software will do it for you 

[oskarha]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

Do I do this before or after cloning?

You shouldn't need to if you are going to be cloning.

[OnionRings]

1 minute ago, oskarha said:

If OP is going to clone the drive he does not need to format the drive before he clones the data.

Proper cloning software should be able to take care of this step.

I personally use AOMEI Backupper to clone my drives.

http://www.backup-utility.com/free-backup-software.html

Ok

 

1 minute ago, Wolther said:

Well, it was either do it manually or have it do it automatically. the cloning software will do it for you 

Ok thanks both of you, I just freaked out when I didn't see the drive appear thought it was DOA or something, didn't know it wouldn't show right away. I'll use your software instead.

[oskarha]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

Ok thanks both of you, I just freaked out when I didn't see the drive appear thought it was DOA or something, didn't know it wouldn't show right away. I'll use your software instead.

Do keep in mind tho that the boot partitions (the first two small ones on your 1TB drive) dont always clone correctly. If this happens and your still cant boot from the SSD tag me and ill help, trust me, ive been through this many times  

[OnionRings]

1 minute ago, oskarha said:

Do keep in mind tho that the boot partitions (the first two small ones on your 1TB drive) dont always clone correctly. If this happens and your still cant boot from the SSD tag me and ill help, trust me, ive been through this many times  

I hope it goes flawlessly, right now I gotta apparently delete more stuff off my HDD, says not enough room on SSD.

[OnionRings]

Weird I only have 190GB of room taken on my HDD and the SSD I want to clone to has 238GB free but it says not enough room?

[oskarha]

2 minutes ago, OnionRings said:

I hope it goes flawlessly, right now I gotta apparently delete more stuff off my HDD, says not enough room on SSD.

Yup, your ssd is quite alot smaller than your hdd.

If you have fast internet, i could reccomend you do delete some big games, and reinstall them onto your hdd later

[oskarha]

1 minute ago, OnionRings said:

Weird I only have 190GB of room taken on my HDD and the SSD I want to clone to has 238GB free but it says not enough room?

Screenshot please? 

[OnionRings]

1 minute ago, oskarha said:

Screenshot please? 

http://prntscr.com/dxd988

[oskarha]

Just now, OnionRings said:

http://prntscr.com/dxd988

The error message please

[OnionRings]

http://prntscr.com/dxd9rd it says it might be because I checked the align option, but it said I should check it if its an SSD, guess I don't though?

[OnionRings]

Nope unchecked I still get it. So weird, I'm only using like 175GB and I have 238GB on the SSD, should be no problem. And that 175 is with all the system files too. I deleted documents, games, temp files, recycle bin, all that's left is literally just like programs and files.