invisible ssd

[mcsman]

Bought a new Kingston HyperX 120g ssd and installed in my Win7 machine.

It shows up in BIOS and in Device manager, but not it explorer.

Now what?

Dave

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Bought a new Kingston HyperX 120g ssd and installed in my Win7 machine.

It shows up in BIOS and in Device manager, but not it explorer.

Now what?

Dave

Right click on drive in device manager and make active.

 

[mcsman]

I click control panel -> system and security -> device manager -> disk drives and then right click on Kingston...device and a pop-up menu appears. Nothing about "make active" but a "properties" option is listed. Choose properties, and no "make active" option.

Where might this "make active" option reside?

Dave

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/mark-a-partition-as-active
This is for win 7 What OS are you using?
Is the drive formatted?

 

[mcsman]

This is 64bit Windows 7. I have not formatted it as I cannot find it in explorer. This is a brand new, out of box SSD, so may have come pre-formatted, but I am inclined to think not. Machine has been operational for 18 months, but boot drive (60 g SSD) is getting full and I want to migrate to this larger drive. But the machine has to recognize the new drive, first.

Thanks for lending a hand.

Dave

 

[corkyg]

A new SSD needs to be initialized. This may help:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...ow-to-initialize-your-SSD-Windows/ta-p/111492

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

A new SSD needs to be initialized. This may help:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S...ow-to-initialize-your-SSD-Windows/ta-p/111492

This. Sometimes the OS gets persnickety and since you're migrating, you could simply unplug your first drive and install to the new drive, then replugged and migrate.

 

[mcsman]

This seems to be just about the only route to take. The "Crucial" link, above, leads to areas I don't find.

So, I will unplug the existing boot drive, install Windows7 to the new disk, and go from there.


Thanx for the help.

Dave