I recently got a USED solid state drive, of Toshiba brand, and installed it into my custom-built computer. It was owned by a friend before that had used it for a bit and gave it to me. He said he'd wiped it clean as well. So earlier today my brother and I set it up in the computer, went into the bios, and found that it was listed there to verify it was successfully inserted. I was unsuccessful at finding where to change it from Native IDE to AHCI, but also read that on newer computer that was un-necessary as it may have already been done itself. It's an ASUS motherboard. I intended to use the SSD only for putting large files, such as games, on it, and not an operating system, but the issue for me is that I cannot find it in the file explorer I went into the manager / disk management and was able to find it listed, unnamed, but also already partitioned, though it was unused. I was wondering if something else needed to be done to be able to actually access it. Can give some more information if necessary. Any help is appreciated.
Setting Up Used SSD
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That's the issue for me, it's already been partitioned, having been used already, and when I right click to try and format it and what not I just can't, it's grayed out. The only options I have are Delete Partition (mine has 3 partitions on it, one is 118 GB, another is 620 MB, and last is 200 MB) and Help. Yet I'm unable to see it anywhere else outside of disk management, where it says it is partitioned and healthy.
I believe the person before said he wiped it clean, but it's still partitioned so I'm assuming he didn't secure erase / completely reset it? The issue isn't really install speed, it's already in and I can see it listed in my bios, but from there I can't see it in my file explorer in the computer to save things to it, and it's still partitioned from when my friend used it, he simply deleted the files he had on it.
I can try to be a bit more specific just in case. So I have a 125 GB Toshiba SSD that I put in, and in my bios before startup I am able to see it and have it boot second because I don't intend to put my OS on it (I intend to buy a better, bigger SSD further down the line for that as well), so it's listed there, then I logged in, and in disk managed I can see it, unnamed, but it's a 125 GB disk that's already partitioned since it's used by a friend, and a few suggestions I've had are to erase it completely then redo it (assuming that means to format it and it'll partition itself and I'm basically good to go), yet there are dozens of different sources saying how to go about erasing that makes it very complicated which direction to go with it. Hopefully this helps be a bit more specific.
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OK.
You can either leave it as is...
Or
Delete and then Format that main partition (118.44GB) and give it a new drive letter
or
Use one of the many partition managers (or command line diskpart) and delete ALL the existing partitions. Create one new partition using the whole drive.
I'll probably try to delete the main partition, since I'm unable to actually access it so I don't think leaving it as it is will work, I just can't find the drive in file explorer. Or would it be better off full deleting all partitions and creating a whole new one? That's what I'd prefer to do at least. Granted a bit unsure how, didn't want to go around deleting all the partitions without really consulting anyone that knew better than me.
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You can't see it in File Explorer, because it has no drive letter.
If it were MY drive, I would wipe ALL existing partitions and start with a blank slate.
EaseUS Partition Master will do this. http://www.partition-tool.com/
I would do that with any used drive. Wipe it completely.
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Or, since this is a Toshiba drive, use the Secure Erase utility, from here:
http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=4008467
(if it is one of the applicable model numbers)
This will wipe the entire thing, completely.
http://support.toshiba.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=4008467
(if it is one of the applicable model numbers)
This will wipe the entire thing, completely.
What needed to be done was to wipe the SSD / unpartition it since when it was partitioned it probably wasn't done properly, since it didn't have a drive letter or anything, so I just cleaned it then re-formatted and it started working from there.
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