SSHD not showing up in OS?

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VisceralT

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I just finished building my pc yesterday and everything is running fine except from one thing, my seagate sshd is not showing up in my OS, it does however show up in my BIOS.

I have all the latest drivers installed for various hardware and i have windows 8.1 installed on my samsung 120gb SSD i will include a pc partpicker link bellow for my spec. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance!

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/2Bfts

Edit: it also shows up in device manager.
 
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When you go to disk manager, do you see the drive? Has this drive ever been used with another operating system and was it plugged in when you installed windows. If it was not connected to your motherboard at the time of install and has never been used, I would guess that you simply need to initialize the disk and create a partition within disk manager.

I am less familiar with 8.1's admin console (it's on my Surface Pro but I don't really tweak it much since it's my work mobile workstation) but I would guess that it's similar to Win7. If that's the case, right-click on Computer and select properties. Take a look at report back
 
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How do i create a partition? (sorry it's my first build).

 
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No worries - I don't have my tablet with me so my instructions are based off of Windows 7's disk manager but I believe they're the same.

If you see the drive in disk management, it will probably say that it doesn't have any space allocated. What you'll want to do is right-click on that unallocated space and select new simple volume. You'll get a welcome screen (click next), it'll ask you how much you want to use (the default will be all available space - that's probably what I would go with), you can assign it a letter (it will usually select the next alphabetical number available past c - change it if you like or just click next), you will want to allow it to format the disk (the default option) - the file system is up to you, based on the fact that it isn't your windows operating system drive you can use either NTFS or exFAT, I would go with NTFS. You can tweak the allocation unit size if you would like, but I would leave it at default, you can also label the Volume (Example - Data), then click Next and Finish

I will check this evening to see if there are any significant deviations from the instructions I gave you based on Windows 7 vs. Windows 8/8.1. Hope that helps...
 
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