Wiped Samsung evo 850 250gb, now won't show up at all except in device manager

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

So I was trying to clone windows to my ssd but that didn't work out so I decided to drop it all together, I went into disk management and wiped the entire volume on the SSD now it won't show up anywhere except device manager, I quite like my ssd, how do I get it back?

Multipack · Oct 5, 2016

You probably deleted the partition. Re-allocate the space.

USAFRet · Oct 5, 2016

Loppysaurus :

Does it appear in Disk Management?

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

USAFRet :

It does not, it does however appear in UEFI bios.

Multipack · Oct 5, 2016

Loppysaurus :

USAFRet :

It does not, it does however appear in UEFI bios.

Then ignore my suggestion

Is more of a problem than just reallocating partitions..

USAFRet · Oct 5, 2016

Loppysaurus :

Appearing in the BIOS but not in Disk Management is very, very odd.
Swap SATA cables around.
Swap it into a different SATA port.

What happened with the original clone attempt? What failed?

Multipack · Oct 5, 2016

Am curious to know what's happening to cause that as it is odd but I will leave it in the hands of USAFRet who can help far more than me. One thing though, if it's m2 form factor they can behave very strangely but am assuming it's SATA..

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

USAFRet :

All appeared to work with the cloning, then I restarted and went into bios to select the SSD to boot off of, it said something along the lines of "access denied", I then thought maybe if I disconnected the HDD it would boot, but instead I get a "bad drive" or something like that, and it suggested I wipe and I backup my files from the previous state. So I plugged back in my HDD and booted from there.

Since it was a clone I just decided to instead go into disk management and delete the SSD volume.

Also if you have time I somehow solved this problem: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-3205400/iomap64-bsod-installing-gtx-1070.html by doing just that, deleting the SSD volume, very very odd, now my HDD boots very fast, and I get no BSOD's.

I have somehow solved one problem and created another.

USAFRet · Oct 5, 2016

Please show us a screencap of your current Disk Management window.

jkhoward · Oct 5, 2016

The drive may be connected to a SATA port connected to a third-party controller that doesn't have the driver installed. Under device manager do you have any unknown or ! devices? Did you disable any of the controllers in the BIOS?

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

USAFRet :

http://imgur.com/a/I1alu

As you can see, the HDD shows up fine with the system reserves (I'm not sure what that means but I assume it has to do with making the HDD work properly)

But no SSD is showing up :/

Is it possible that I deleted the reserves in the SSD when I deleted the volume?

Multipack · Oct 5, 2016

Disk 1 is the SSD. You have managed to move over a cloned system partition..

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

Multipack :

what do you mean I didn't delete the cloned system partition? 232gb is pretty much all the space you can get on that SSD, how do I get it back to where I can use it again?

USAFRet · Oct 5, 2016

Disk 1 is the SSD.

OK...redo the clone thing:

These steps exactly:
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Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the original boot partitions, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
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jkhoward · Oct 5, 2016

Right-click on the black part. Select new volume, follow the prompts. It has returned.

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

It would appear that I have fixed the problem gentlemen, sorry for wasting your time but it's not often I crack open the PC to play around with it and delete stuff.

Multipack · Oct 5, 2016

Loppysaurus :

I had to edit my post as I noticed that partition is no longer on Disk 0 swhere it should be. So you cloned it then deleted it from Disk 0 where it belongs. If you want a poorly configured Windows, just allocate the rest of the space on the SSD. If you want it how it should be, clone the partition back then delete it from the SSD. Do a backup first though..

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

USAFRet :

Disk 1 is the SSD.

OK...redo the clone thing:

These steps exactly:
---------------------------------
Download and install Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration, if a Samsung SSD)
Power off
Disconnect ALL drives except the current C and the new SSD
Power up
Run the Macrium Reflect (or Samsung Data Migration)
Select ALL the partitions on the existing C drive
Click the 'Clone' button
Wait until it is done
When it finishes, power off
Disconnect ALL drives except for the new SSD
Swap the SATA cables around so that the new drive is connected to the same SATA port as the old drive
Power up, and verify the BIOS boot order
If good, continue the power up

It should boot from the new drive, just like the old drive.
Maybe reboot a time or two, just to make sure.

If it works, and it should, all is good.

Later, reconnect the old drive and wipe as necessary.
Delete the original boot partitions, here:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/4f1b84ac-b193-40e3-943a-f45d52e23685/cant-delete-extra-healthy-recovery-partitions-and-healthy-efi-system-partition?forum=w8itproinstall
---------------------------------

I'll give it a try in the future, for now I'm just happy to have no more BSOD's and to have my SSD back

USAFRet · Oct 5, 2016

Loppysaurus :

OK.
Those ARE the steps for a successful clone.

Loppysaurus · Oct 5, 2016

USAFRet :

Got everything cloned on the SSD and I have to thank you, everything is lightning fast and my BSOD problems are now gone with my updated chipset drivers.

Thanks for the list of instructions!

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