Just recently bought a Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD for my pc. The hard drive is not showing up under my PC. I went under Disk Management to assign a letter and path to the hard drive but it will not allow me to right click the drive. The drive is showing up as (Disk 0 Partition 3) Healthy (recovery partition). What am I doing wrong? what do I need to do to get this thing working?
SSD will not work.
- Thread starter tf_sketch
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- Sep 13, 2010
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Was this a used drive? It should not have anything on it, most notably not a recovery partition. I would reformat the drive or use a diskpart clean depending on what you have available.
I can give you the commands after you further describe what drives you currently have and what OS version you run.
I can give you the commands after you further describe what drives you currently have and what OS version you run.
This was a brand new SSD from Newegg. I have tried to the diskpart clean in command prompt. The drive automatically configures back to the same thing. I am running windows 10. For drives I have an old OZ vertex SSD 120gb, and a 1tb standard hardrive that just has files on it. I never planned on putting my OS on this new SSD. I bought it to install games on.
- Sep 13, 2010
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So, this is quite odd. To be clear, you run an elevated command prompt (right click and select run as admin) then use these commands:
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n is the drive number from the list command)
clean
exit
and then it shows up with a recovery partition? It should be blank and ready to format.
diskpart
list disk
select disk n (where n is the drive number from the list command)
clean
exit
and then it shows up with a recovery partition? It should be blank and ready to format.
https://gyazo.com/7fa25d835eafdf1cb7bb8eb13a96bc65
When i open Disk Management it asks me to "initialize the disk" gives me the option of MBR, or GPT. I selected MBR and hit OK.
https://gyazo.com/e78325af46201ab215140bb42f4db164
Comes up like that and will not allow me to right click the drive
When i open Disk Management it asks me to "initialize the disk" gives me the option of MBR, or GPT. I selected MBR and hit OK.
https://gyazo.com/e78325af46201ab215140bb42f4db164
Comes up like that and will not allow me to right click the drive
- Sep 13, 2010
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I don't even see disk 2 in disk management -- that recovery partition on 474MB is just a partition of you old 120GB SSD.
Yes, you would want to select MBR in the initialization choice and NTFS format, then you should see the new Samsung SSD -- you might check the quality of the SATA data cable. While it clearly shows up in diskpart, it is not in DM.
Yes, you would want to select MBR in the initialization choice and NTFS format, then you should see the new Samsung SSD -- you might check the quality of the SATA data cable. While it clearly shows up in diskpart, it is not in DM.
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