SSD is recognized in BIOS but not in windows

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gagin.michael

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I recently bought a SanDisk 480gb SSD and plugged it in correctly with both power and sata. Once loading up the BIOS I can see that it recognizes the SSD in storage and shows the capacity of 480gb. After I have passed the BIOS and loaded up windows I cannot find the SSD in device manager, file explorer, or drive management. What could I do to try and fix this? I am really against trying the "sketchy" free applications that try to say they can fix it. Thank you for your help!
 
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Press Windows+R.
In Run type “services.msc”.
Locate “plug and play services”.
Is it running?
Right click on it, stop and start the service.
Restart the computer, check whether the drive is detected.

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1| Pass on your full system's specs, like so:
CPU:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
Chassis:
OS:

2| Are you on the latest BIOS update for your platform?

3| Do you intend to use the SSD as a storage/game library drive or for the OS as well?
 
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gagin.michael

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CPU: i5 4690k @ 3.5ghz
Motherboard: ASRock Z97 Pro4
RAM: 16gb Team Dark DDR3
SSD/HDD: 4TB Seagate, 1TB WD, 480gb SanDisk
GPU: RX480 OC ROG
PSU: 750watt EVGA
Chassis: Corsair
OS: Windows 10 64bit

2. BIOS updates no long supported

3. I intend to the use the SSD as both storage for games and my OS
 
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gagin.michael

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Thank you for helping. Although I couldn't seem to find the drive in file explorer after trying that, device manager and disk management have both recognized the drive. I initialized the drive and figured it out after that. Thank you again!
 
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