Windows 10 - How to Activate New Hard Drives and SSD’s Not Showing Up

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[@cjsayers3346]

Great video. It made installing my new drive quick and easy. Thanks!

[@trevorash8245]

Thanks! It helped me set up my 1tb M.2 Drive

[@kingdoc7535]

thx maTE

[@goghman]

@@geirigeirason4216 LOL

[@funkyseefunkydo9622]

thank you! Helped me out as I just bought a new SSD drive and its working now! cheers mate

[@roddyross5531]

Now thats how you do a tutorial. No waffeling, straight to the point, well explained and at a steady pace. Good Job Sir

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[@vekezy1802]

@@MDTechVideos but what if the ssd does not shown thwre

[@vekezy1802]

@@MDTechVideos what should i do now

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[@yersonguzman_]

@@MDTechVideos it just wiped all my data on my drives 🤯

[@zacharyhagberg678]

I was freaking out when I bought a new SSD. You save the day man. Like for sure!

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@Noobart03]

lmao same

[@michaeldvega4624]

SAME BRO THANK YOU !

[@flashjukemain8797]

Same but this was the first thing i found on the internet

[@kunolol]

Why can't everybody give easy tutorials like this?

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Ik right some people are so complicated

[@cherrydropking1853]

fr man

[@Matheus222]

5 years later still perfect tutorial. Love people like you! 10/10!

[@HypercoreRipper]

Lifesaver for us new builders out there 👌

[@marcuschin16]

Factual bro. My first build and I ran out of storage super quick.

[@johnkontos3227]

trueeeeeeeeee

[@my_boyfriends]

Yup

[@HiPlayerProdigy]

YES LET'S GO

[@bakameh1329]

Facts

[@GiggityGiggity_Jawn]

2 yrs later...still a major help for many people. Thanks!! 🙏

[@Jikjuka]

Agreed, thank you for posting this!

[@alexandervargas5952]

You saved me from a heart attack on thinking I had a defective drive. Thanks my guy.

[@xdgmoney4668]

hell yeah thanks A lot brother

[@idkhehe658]

me too

[@Mustang-bc5ww]

Thanks man I was in the same predicament

[@justinsand1373]

Honestly I thought I wasted $100 this was a life saver

[@mathewkanapilly796]

I got an open box drive and thought the same thing

[@Urso311]

4 years later and you're still saving lives sir! thank you!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad to help!

[@joshgreenberg8537]

dude how does no one else have this up lol . thank you

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You're welcome!

[@alphabravo1603]

Short and to the point. It's been awhile since I installed a new drive and I nearly had a heart attack when I booted up my computer and didn't see my new SSD listed in file explorer. I had completely forgot about the disk management module until I watched this video. Had my new SSD up and running in less than 2 minutes. Thank you for this video!

[@Manamonke]

Yeah literally had no clue about this when I got my new SSD. I will never forget this.

[@MDTechVideos]

Nice, information is knowledge.

[@rafelemay5070]

Yes, I was assuming Best Buy sold me a bad SSD Drive or there was something to the SATA iii or I needed a drive software to operate. Well, I will give this a try! I just got here and am still thinking that I need to download some drive software, that's why I'm in the comment section before I start.

[@mikeexits]

@@rafelemay5070 Did you fix it? Mine isn't even showing up in the BIOS or the disk partition management window. I don't know what to do.

[@jeremyharrington3414]

@@mikeexits Always look at whether or not it appears in the BIOS first. If, as you say, it doesn't even appear there, then it's most likely that either the cables aren't plugged in where they belong, or even that the drive is damaged unfortunately. I'm no expert here but it could also be that the drive simply isn't compatible with your MB(which I find hard to believe) I hope you fix your problem soon. Lucky it's only a drive.

[@thetechrealist]

@@mikeexits either double check the connection or it might be that you just got a lemon. sucks if it's the second thing....

[@saltstorm1025]

i bought my pc off my brother, task manager was saying only 50% disk was being used and it was slowing everything down, finally found this and activated the SSD, thank you good sir, very simple, very concise, incredible

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help

[@loganfoster9194]

You sir just saved me from haveing a massive adult size tantrum over 20tb

[@bigguspeepus9596]

thats a lot of hentai

[@modelotimefooooo1853]

20 TB dude wtf you got on there?? 🤣🤣

[@mgtowanonymous3120]

This dude done traded in his brand new car for the m.2 ssd instead

[@dopeonthescale]

@@bigguspeepus9596 thats light work to him he tryna go to 50

[@ItsKingPo]

Thank you! I was thinking my cables weren't connected properly or something 😂

[@tommvii3562]

sameeee bro

[@johnkontos3227]

same. lifesaver

[@achannel8216]

Mee too

[@jcfitness1605]

First PC, and thought I already broke it

[@bochapman1058]

I just built my fist pc and same it has been driving me crazy.

[@ezequielsequeira5413]

Thanks for not making this difficult and long for no reason. Straight to the point and exactly what I was looking for since it's been a while.

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped

[@LoZz__l]

Thanks! I changed my operating system to a m.2 then couldn't find my HDD until I found this video.

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help!

[@QuanieMASIN]

Years later and this video came clutch, I appreciate you so much, giving love from 2020

[@wyattderp581]

So good mate! Literally didn't have to pause, I started the video not knowing how to set up my new SSD and finished it uninterrupted with my new SSD all set up in just 4 minutes! Legend!

[@Tyrazik]

Smooth. Right to the point and no useless talking and stalling. Much appreciated!

[@antnwa]

I straight up forget every single time I install a new hard drive, this was clear and concise. Thank you.

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@kingsman3506]

2 years later and it’s still relevant, thank you

[@emili90110]

Thank you. This was the only missing info from every tutorial out there. Did not know what simple volume was.

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You're welcome!

[@FRozenn25]

Thanks For the Tutorial dude! It works for me! :D

[@PirateDood1738]

I've had a drive for a while and I followed the other tutorials and I was confused why it wasn't working. Thank you so much!

[@shibby1337]

@@MDTechVideos Hey man, ive got an issue u might help me, i got a kingstone 120gb ssd card, plugged it in, and open BIOS and it shows me that the ssd is connected, also when i check on device manager I see on disks, the ssd and its full name and shows the the device is working propetly. but when i want to intilize it , I dont even see it on Disk Managment, not even as Unlocated disk, PLASE HELP IVE TRIED EVERYTHING

[@viewvideos555]

After finding no practical information from the manufacturer of a new internal hard drive, your activation instructions were excellent and very clear. Thank you.

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped

[@crimsonwolf2321]

Wow I spent 2hrs browsing online on how to make my hard drive work and nothing worked came on to KZbin and boom problem solved within 5minutes. You are a life saver

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad to help Jorge.

[@devonputman2845]

Excellent tutorial video, couldn't find this piece of information anywhere else! KZbin University hero.

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You're welcome!

[@JENNERec]

Same, simple and clear

[@eamonnmclaughlin7689]

Your absolutely right

[@KellyHodges1900]

After way too many Google searches...finally found this video. Quick, simple, and to the point... exactly what I was looking for. Great video, thanks!

[@neznamyycz2181]

Thanks man, even if its 5 years old videos it can still help me do what i need

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Glad I could help

[@dcodigital5581]

Great tutorial! Needed a quick refresher and this was straight to the point and concise. Thanks!

[@AngelGarcia-wg7wx]

Easily the most straight forward, helpful tutorial I’ve ever watched. Thank you so much. I’ll be subscribing for sure

[@evilgamer141]

People like you are the reason I can use computers, thank you.

[@aparatimileyin5995]

I don't like KZbin videos that often but I had to like this... Straightforward and it resolved my issue seamlessly

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@MikeTheArtistX]

Me, after watching countless videos for my issue, finds this video and learns how simple it is. Damn :D

[@delandleedalac7956]

Thank you for being simple and straight to the point and not going around what we are asking for, love this man

[@zacharyshey2283]

if your HDD or SSD isnt showing up on the partitions part of this video, make sure the sata data cable is plugged into the correct slot on the mobo, many mobos will need you to plug it in in a certain order. you can find the order in the manual, or written on the mobo next to the sata data ports

[@ImConstantlyConfused]

Thanks, man! It was driving me crazy not having my system detect my new ssd. I looked up my MOBO and found on my MSI b450 gaming plus max, sata 5-6 aren't available if you use the m.2 slot. Powered down and swapped to a different sata port and the ssd was immediately recognized.

[@Jewsphf]

you are a mvp.

[@outgoingpranks8079]

@@ImConstantlyConfused dude thank you so much I randomly saw this and I have the same mobo it worked perfect all I did was swap slots

[@crolaa6137]

Life saver

[@Agent-sn6wc]

that... explains a lot

[@mage496]

Grandfather gave me a new 4TB SSD and I was worried that it wasn't compatible. Saved me an entire night's worth of time. Appreciate it!

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Glad it helped

[@Alec_BM]

I was scared that I had to open my pc back up and fix the SSD 😂

[@vipulpatel5249]

same bro.

[@rustyshackleford11]

TRueeeeeeee but we were at least smart enough to check on youtube first :D

[@nicholasneuman1587]

ong same

[@kyzxoyt9369]

i looked bc i thought it wasnt plugged in i had to move so many cables

[@Malinzeh]

SAAAME!!! I was so annoyed and frustrated

[@geeksterajn]

Incredibly simple and to the point, I really appreciate the help, I've recently built my very first pc (all around new to them) and decided to buy both SSD and HDD for storage but just noticed that when I try to choose a specific storage device to save specific games to that I only saw the 1tb SSD and not the 2tb HDD. Your video made quick work of my problem!

[@edvins6206]

Thank you so much, recently bought a really expensive 1tb m.2 ssd and i thought i had broke it, works perfectly now!

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@misterplayz1615]

En svensk Jävel installera du windows på den eller har du det på en annan ssd?

[@xxconyutoxx]

The sale thing with me, i was so scared lol

[@lucsmith3953]

The black unallocated isn't showing up for me, what do I do?

[@Syncosaurus]

I've had an SSD ever since I built my PC years ago and I couldn't understand why it never showed up. I used my old terabyte hard drive instead and didn't think to actually "install" the SSD to my computer. Long story short years later and I now have a working SSD! Ty and take this like and sub!

[@Noahs4790]

Extremely well made and detailed video. Excellent job, and thank you for helping me set up my new ssd :)

[@memeweft9694]

Thank you so much dude! I almost hit my keyboard when i plugged my new SSD in and didn't see it at the File Explorer. Amazing!

[@antonandreevich5838]

haha exactly the same thing has just happened to me :D god bless the people making these tutorials

[@breakfree1717]

I appreciate this tutorial video. It helped me set up my new SSD, it was straight forward and easy to follow along. Thank you.

[@simenbo797]

YES, a statue of example to all youtubers doing tutorials.No background music, no bullshit, straight to the point!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad to help.

[@MediaDragonFusion]

Just finished building my pc, Save my life, thank you my dude 💝

[@NickNitro]

epico, thank you dude.

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Any time

[@TheGamingTV]

@Omer Akcan An SSD doesn’t improve in game performance, SSD’s are known for increasing things like load times and download speeds as well as boot times etc , I suppose an SSD could improve in game performance of things like textures are being loaded from the SSD but it won’t be noticeable really

[@greaseandoil723]

how did i find you here, i love your music btw

[@robcampbell3387]

Thank you for making this simple, to the point and easy to understand. Saved me a lot of time/stress!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped!

[@ampotat9018]

I legit had to get a refund for an external SSD I bought, and when I bought another one the same thing happened. I looked everywhere for solutions and this video was it

[@amzcool7622]

Sameee

[@vipulpatel5249]

lol

[@natalijarajkovic6507]

Mate, this was the best computer experience in my life. It was easy, satisfying and it really worked

[@zapo4352]

it dosent work for me, when i go to the disk manegment is dosent appear a black bar over i. when i installed the new ssd i used my old cabels from my hdd and put the new cables to my hdd that i had in for a while, does that effect anything pls someone help me

[@nickel4urhabits]

Hey @Zapo, did you ever get this resolved?

[@sph0rk]

same rn..

[@nickel4urhabits]

@sph0rk do you see the new drive? If you do not it could be a cabling issue. I know that on my new MSI Motherboard I had to use the next consecutive sata connection I could not skip 1 or two for convenience

[@jabello4377]

Thank you so much my good sir. Bought a new ssd and didn't understand why it was not showing up! Saved me many tears. May your pillows always stay nice and cool, amen brother

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help

[@Lyachos]

Holy shit thank you so much

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@Al3ssandroS]

God bless you! Very easy and well explained video. I performed the same steps while watching the video and it's all done. Thanks

[@Essorance]

Worked for my m.2 drive which wasn't showing up. YOU'RE A GENIUS

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@CFC_Jordan]

Excellent Tutorial. Easy to follow and works perfectly! Thanks!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped!

[@tomatexelon]

Thank You, You did help me out, Short and Sweet, I was installing a new 1 terabyte M.2 drive

[@TheSparkIdea]

It's not even showing up on the create new partition any ideas?

[@Serfington]

I have an ssd set up as my main and my hard drive is still plugged in and I need the extra space But the hard drive isn’t showing up I have a power cable and a data cable plugged into the motherboard and the actually hard drive so plz help

[@kalebjensen6388]

Me too

[@tommythompson8924]

Me too. Anyone get this figured out?

[@myrtle3576]

SadBoySerf I’m tryna get this figured out as well

[@tommythompson8924]

Mine was literally just not plugged in all the way. Idk if that’s y’all problem but that’s what happened with mine.

[@Serfington]

Tommy Thompson read my reply to myrtle

[@Leoc1034_]

Dude you're my hero and savior. Can't believe how many videos I watch that don't help me whatsoever, unlike this amazing video. Did not even take me 5 minutes to get my ssd back up and working thanks to you man. Big ups to you and the fam. Family. Family. FAMILY.

[@maxh6979]

YOOO THX SO MUCH I JUST BOUGHT AN M.2 SSD AND I WAS FREAKING OUT. IT WORKED THX

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You're welcome

[@RahRy444]

4 hours of research and all I needed was this goddamn video. You’re the best!

[@RemixManiacs]

Bro....THANK YOU!!

[@MDTechVideos]

Happy to help

[@goodguyguan3412]

@@MDTechVideos Gonna add this to my liked because you already know I'm going to forget next time I upgrade. Got 1Gb internet but my brain is still DSL

[@ChilledZuko]

You’re an absolute blessing dude! I watched a few other guides and they weren’t helpful but in 4 minutes I got mine working with your tutorial.

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help

[@Sequence0]

This was god tier, thank you bro!

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@maxmorgan9133]

MDTechVideos thanks for this just made my first pc and my ssd wasn’t showing up thanks!!

[@squadproductions4351]

I watched like 20 videos till i found this one and it answered all my questions and completed exactly what I wanted to be done. Thank you! 💪🏾

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped!

[@Mophony]

This may be a stupid question, but how can I do this if the "Unallocated Space" tab isn't there for me to right click on? What do I do then?

[@paintshift]

scroll down, if you have more than 2 disks you wont see the others until you scroll down, either that or your hardware is not working properly

[@ttvninjaginja45_rickname]

Of all the tutorials I’ve ever watched on KZbin this is the ONLY one that’s worked first try.

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad to help.

[@sammyj2806]

I've had to watch this 3 times. I forget between new SSD purchases.

[@skateboardadik]

Holy shit bro thank you so much for this solution! I was getting really stressed out because of my brand new hard drive. I didnt know that I had to activate it :D

[@odyssey1537]

I'm so glad i came here before i went and returned my hard drive! i thought it just wasn't working😂😂

[@umerahmed6678]

Same but i had an ssd

[@calebbailey4728]

Hey 6 years later and this is the only video that helped me! Thank you and God bless you and your family!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped!

[@TrueWeebKing]

I completely forgot that you needed to format the hard drive before you can use it.

[@rage8010]

Thank you very much! Just got a samsung 970 evo and was scared when it didnt show up lol

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@sebradfield]

Funny, mine is a brand new 860 EVO. I wasn't so much scared as angry, but like yourself I was helped greatly by this.

[@ZammZ]

Also here for 970 Evo not showing up...

[@4someforlife]

Solar me too I bought an 860 and a 970. Neither showed up. Must be a Samsung thing

[@drg_1111]

@@4someforlife nope

[@Augenauf2010]

Cheers mate, helped a lot getting my 2nd ssd up and running

[@james7065]

amazing that this came out five years ago and here i am doing everything step by step thanks for the upload brotha keep up the goood work

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped

[@SwadeDrumming]

literally the best video tutorial Ive ever watched!

[@MDTechVideos]

Great!

[@redpax499]

One word to describe my feelings after watching this video: PHEW!

[@DMRides]

Thanks I was stuck on this. Very simple but useful.

[@MDTechVideos]

Your welcome!

[@mumihp]

Thanks so much. Just installed a M2 SDD on my motherboard but wasn't being picked up. Thought I would need to restart and enable via the bios. But your video worked, my M2 SSD Card is now showing up on my PC. Many thanks for the very useful video. Simple and straight to the point.

[@banta-lg3zk]

Thank you for the help I got my first pc today as it was Christmas and wouldn't of been good if I couldn't download any games

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@damienshingler7063]

None of my Drives are unallocated so none of them have the black bars on them only the blue ?

[@SeanGrenadR]

Probably not installed correctly or something is faulty

[@moonpiespotlight4759]

You have to initialize the drive 1st. Scroll to the bottom of the screen.

[@chaseburt4992]

same

[@5ohpablo]

Moonpie Spotlight how do u initialize it?

[@moonpiespotlight4759]

@@5ohpablo Right click in the grey area, you should see a menu. Initialize disk is one o fhe options.

[@johnikserak3199]

My PC does not recognize SSD, no unallocated volume with black bar.

[@HannahWade199]

same an solution yet?

[@goldlair3300]

5 years after you released this video, it's still helping people. I've been trying to figure this out for f#$king hours man and this video solved it all. You, Sir, are awesome.

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help

[@moonjogger1]

I installed my second SSD into the second m.2 slot on my motherboard and it isnt showing in the places you have showed. In the BIOS however it says that slot is deactivated. Any help? (Edit: The second M.2 port was M.2 PCIe only so my M.2 SATA ssd wasn't read, and I had to buy a M.2 NVMe ssd for that slot

[@eliblessed]

Hey, I dont know if you solved this, but just a heads up: if you install m.2 drives, sometimes various SATA ports cant be used. (For my motherboard, if I have a m.2 in the first slot, the sata2 port is disabled. If I use m.2 slot 2, the 6th sata port is disabled). Not sure if that is a problem, but it is something to be aware of

[@josh5348]

@@eliblessed interesting . I jus bought a 1tb ssd but wanna add another m.2. Whats ur motherboard?

[@eliblessed]

@@josh5348 I have the MSI z490-a pro

[@m.k9541]

You sir, are a legend, thanks for the quick guide

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@cesarmella8062]

In my personal case, only the bios recognise the new ssd. So I have no clue what to do.

[@HOLYWOLF91]

Same boat

[@xJunos]

It's not showing up in the disk management?

[@cesarmella8062]

@@xJunos exactly, but I discovered that the SSD was not compatible, soy I changed it. In Amazon you can see that looking the info "hardware interface".

[@mikeexits]

Mine isn't even showing up in my BIOS. :/ I don't know what to do.

[@dratenka6915]

Thank you my lord, i know i am gonna repeat majority of comments here but this is perfect example how a tutorial should look like. You´ve given birth to my new SSD :)

[@xhyv8013]

I freaking love you, ty for saving me from a heart attack!

[@MDTechVideos]

You're welcome!

[@alainwho]

what if its not showing up in the partitions in the first place?

[@leemooreStudio]

I know! That's the issue I'm having. Every tutorial says the same thing. Go to Disk Management, right click on unallocated disk and then click on new simple volume... but what do you do if it's not even showing up as a unallocated disk in the Disk management to begin with?

[@alainwho]

Leemoore Gaming I realized mine just wasn’t plugged in correctly, (only sata cable no power) so when I get around to plugging in the power it SHOULD show up on the partitions, but if not I’m back on the same boat as you

[@bdon55x39]

@@alainwho mines in the m.2 slot. how do i get power to it?

[@alainwho]

Brandon Field a regular ssd shouldn’t go in M.2 but if you’re just asking about power you need to buy a power cable for ssd’s

[@stevepaniccia5207]

This was exactly what I needed, Thank you!!

[@The2Cat7Guy]

Bro... THANK YOU! This literally saved my life!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help

[@aydenbackup8363]

My “new simple volume” isn’t lighting up

[@s1mpl1c1ty7]

even mine

[@cadenwilliams639]

Same have you figured out who to fix it

[@cadenwilliams639]

Tadpoles Simonsays because I have my hard drive hooked up to me pc and I have the same problem it won’t let me click new simple volume

[@cadenwilliams639]

Tadpoles Simonsays I’ve look through so many videos too and I still can’t find a solution

[@RustyBulb]

@@cadenwilliams639 I have the same problem. Have you managed to figure it out?

[@FraggedOutFilms]

works 9-14-2019

[@HELLSCAT32292]

Worked perfectly. I had to wait a bit longer in my disk management, but that was from a separate drive being funky. Thank you for the easy and clear video!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help

[@JustRappingProficiently]

I miss helpful videos like this. Short, to the point, and everything I needed to know.

[@DonaldWilliam]

Thanks. Bought a new unformatted ssd. It had several complaints on the website saying it didn't work....but I thought that unlikely to actually be the case. Followed this guide, and now have 2TB of extra storage for absurdly cheap.

[@Devast8ter]

Buddy asked me how to do this and wasn't understanding on the phone. Sent him your video, he had it done in a couple minutes. Very good vid!!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help

[@lazybambo]

Thank you so much 6 years later, still relevant

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad I could help!

[@SYSTEMSMASH]

Thank you so much for this. Just built a new PC for the first time and have two SSDs, one wouldn't pop up. All articles on how to do it either wanted me to download their program or click something that wasn't popping up for me. Your tutorial did the trick!

[@MDTechVideos]

Glad it helped!

[@teraptorus1144]

I never leave comments but people aren't joking this is the best tutorial ever, simple, fast and works holy shit thank you man