Asus 5742G not detecting new Samsung Evo 850 SSD

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Siberion

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Hello Everyone

I think I am about to blow up

I spent the last 6 hours trying various configurations to make my laptop see my new SSD.

Basically my original hard drive is starting to fail, so I purchased myself a shiny 850 evo Samsung SSD. The only problem... BIOS won't detect it...

When I plugged it into the enclosure through the USB it detects it fine, but when booting up it won't show up..

I only have 1 hard drive slot so I was planning on doing a new windows 7 reset...

Can anyone help me that perhaps went through this problem before?

(by the way command prompt- list disk does not show any drives)

(could this be my motherboard being incompatible?)

I updated my bios as well...

Please help,
 
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SuperSoph_WD
Welcome to the community, Siberion!

I don't think that it's a motherboard compatibility issue, it's rather some loose or failed connection to the new SSD. I'd recommend you to try resolving the by resetting BIOS from the settings and see if that would help. (Since you have a laptop, only the first method is actionable: http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS)
Another thing you should check is your drivers pack CD and make sure you've got the SATA drivers installed. I'd also check the laptop manufacturer's website for any driver updates for your model. Make sure you are properly mounting the SSD inside the laptop when you connected via the SATA connector. If you have another 2.5" mobile HDD, I'd try connecting it as well and make sure...
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Welcome to the community, Siberion!

I don't think that it's a motherboard compatibility issue, it's rather some loose or failed connection to the new SSD. I'd recommend you to try resolving the by resetting BIOS from the settings and see if that would help. (Since you have a laptop, only the first method is actionable: http://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Your-BIOS)
Another thing you should check is your drivers pack CD and make sure you've got the SATA drivers installed. I'd also check the laptop manufacturer's website for any driver updates for your model. Make sure you are properly mounting the SSD inside the laptop when you connected via the SATA connector. If you have another 2.5" mobile HDD, I'd try connecting it as well and make sure that it's not the connector that failed.

Keep me posted.
SuperSoph_WD
 
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