Brand new ssd isnt getting detected

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

Hey guys n gals,

I just got a comp from a buddy with a evga x79 sli mobo. I just put a brand new samsung 850 500gb ssd in it. I purchased windows 10 on my laptop and downloaded it to my thumb drive. Plugged it into my desktop and was able to install it to my ssd. But now the desktop is not able to detect my ssd. It gives me the "Adapter 1 : disk information, No drive detected", then takes me to a black screen with "reboot and select proper Boot device or insert boot media in the selected boot device and press a key". I have no idea what I am doing. I have taken out my cmos battery to reset my mobo and nothing. tried different sata ports and no dice :/

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Akblade :

Set the SSD (which has the OS) as the first boot device in the BIOS - Restart.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

Ubrales :

Akblade :

Set the SSD (which has the OS) as the first boot device in the BIOS - Restart.

That is what I have set as first boot device and it does the same thing

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

poking around in the advanced settings, should my SATA mode be AHCI, RAID, IDE, or disabled?

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Akblade :

AHCI

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

My shotgun may be the only answer. why in heck won't it detect my hd ><

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Akblade :

Did the OS install correctly on the SSD after you formatted the SSD> Usually, during the install of the OS Windows will automatically format in case the SSD is not formatted prior to install.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

I installed before formatting, but when I go back to the point of windows installation where is shows the hard drives, it shows it all correctly formatted

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Akblade :

The OS may not have been correctly installed - re-install, and select it as the first boot device. It helps if the OS SSD is connected to SATA 0 - SATA 0 has the highest priority and set this as the first boot device.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

So for that, I will put my ssd as 1st boot, and then my thumb drive with windows 10 as 2nd?

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Akblade :

Windows 10 on the SSD only - don't have it on two connected drives.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

Ubrales :

that is the only thing on the drive. reinstalling now

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

ok, its reinstalled and now I am going through the OS setup stuff. This is what I did last time too. But when I tried to restart, it couldn't detect my ssd.

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Akblade :

Make sure that the SSD is the only drive on the computer. After you get everything running, you may add drives as necessary.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

Ubrales :

Will I want to put in the cd that came with the ssd?

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

The CD that came with the Samsung 850 is for optimizing it (if you choose to do so) by using "Samsung Magician" - (I have the same 500 GB 850 EVO in my desktop - works fine). You can do this after you get everything running.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

now I am scared to restart. I have a feeling it won't recognize my driver again

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Akblade :

No problem with reinstalling Windows and re-activating it on the same computer as many times as you like.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

Ubrales :

I just dont want to do that every time I restart my computer lol

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

You will not need to re-install Windows every time to start the computer - Windows needs to be installed and activated using the authorization code only one time.

Akblade · Sep 3, 2017

woot, it worked. Thank you VERY MUCH! you are a lifesaver

Ubrales · Sep 3, 2017

Glad it worked!

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