Can't Configure Kingston SSD

[c***@optonline.net]

Sent this to Kingston tech support :

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250 GB SSD won't show in file Explorer, but does show in the Windows 7
Device Manager under "Disc drives".

Your tech indicated : "... access Device Manager, locate the drive and
perform the following... 1) Right-click on the unallocated volume and
select Initialize (use MBR to initialize). 2) Right-click on the
unallocated volume once again and this time select New Simple Volume.
Follow the new simple volume wizard to setup your drive for data
storage. Once the format process completes, your drive will appear in
explorer as a storage drive."

Where is the "unallocated volume" ? I don't see it anywhere in the
Device Manager. Probably a dumb question, but what is "... MBR ..." ?

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Informed comments most welcome & thanks.

[Rene Lamontagne]

Post by c***@optonline.net
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250 GB SSD won't show in file Explorer, but does show in the Windows 7
Device Manager under "Disc drives".
Your tech indicated : "... access Device Manager, locate the drive and
perform the following... 1) Right-click on the unallocated volume and
select Initialize (use MBR to initialize). 2) Right-click on the
unallocated volume once again and this time select New Simple Volume.
Follow the new simple volume wizard to setup your drive for data
storage. Once the format process completes, your drive will appear in
explorer as a storage drive."
Where is the "unallocated volume" ? I don't see it anywhere in the
Device Manager. Probably a dumb question, but what is "... MBR ..." ?
* * * *
Informed comments most welcome & thanks.

Funny you should ask at this time as I just received a new Kingston
AS400-120GB drive and did the same procedure an hour ago. :-)
Do not go to Device Manager as they said but go into Disk Management
instead, That is where you find unallocated volume and all the other
options you need.

HTH

Rene

[Rene Lamontagne]

Post by Rene Lamontagne

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250 GB SSD won't show in file Explorer, but does show in the Windows 7
Device Manager under "Disc drives".
Your tech indicated : "... access Device Manager, locate the drive and
perform the following... 1) Right-click on the unallocated volume and
select Initialize (use MBR to initialize). 2) Right-click on the
unallocated volume once again and this time select New Simple Volume.
Follow the new simple volume wizard to setup your drive for data
storage. Once the format process completes, your drive will appear in
explorer as a storage drive."
Where is the "unallocated volume" ? I don't see it anywhere in the
Device Manager. Probably a dumb question, but what is "... MBR ..." ?
  * * * *
Informed comments most welcome & thanks.

Funny you should ask at this time as I just received a new Kingston
AS400-120GB drive and did the same procedure an hour ago.  :-)
Do not go to Device Manager as they said but go into Disk Management
instead, That is where you find unallocated volume and all the other
options you need.
HTH
  Rene

Forgot to add, The MBR is the Master boot record for the Drive.

Rene

[c***@optonline.net]

Many thanks.

NGs solve nearly everything.

[Paul]

Post by c***@optonline.net
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250 GB SSD won't show in file Explorer, but does show in the Windows 7
Device Manager under "Disc drives".
Your tech indicated : "... access Device Manager, locate the drive and
perform the following... 1) Right-click on the unallocated volume and
select Initialize (use MBR to initialize). 2) Right-click on the
unallocated volume once again and this time select New Simple Volume.
Follow the new simple volume wizard to setup your drive for data
storage. Once the format process completes, your drive will appear in
explorer as a storage drive."
Where is the "unallocated volume" ? I don't see it anywhere in the
Device Manager. Probably a dumb question, but what is "... MBR ..." ?
* * * *
Informed comments most welcome & thanks.

Real disk drive companies have helpful web pages :-)

You can use these pages, even when you didn't buy
a product here. That's because these guys have been in
business a bit longer.

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/182615en

And it's like Rene says, you need Disk Management.

In Start : Run, you can execute "diskmgmt.msc" and
that brings up the Disk Management window. Just
as Device Manager is "devmgmt.msc", but for this job
you don't need Device Manager. You can use Device
Manager to "prove" the device is detected, but after
that, it's off to Disk Management to actually deal
with the drive. That's where the real work gets done.

And after you've defined your Simple Volume, you can
right click and "Explore" to open it.

Most people would be putting an OS on their SSD,
so you don't need to make the SSD setup "too pretty"
at this time. If your intent is to use the SSD
as a scratch drive, then yes, one big NTFS partition
would be as good a choice as any.

Since cheap SSDs are usually smaller than 2TB, doing
an MBR setup is good enough. Doing a GPT setup might
help prevent space wastage, on a really large drive.
The largest SSD available today, is 40TB in size, and
has the form factor of a 3.5" hard drive, and it would
*definitely* benefit from a GPT setup. Too bad nobody
can afford one of those. They cost as much as your
car or truck.

Paul

[Rene Lamontagne]

Post by Paul

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250 GB SSD won't show in file Explorer, but does show in the Windows 7
Device Manager under "Disc drives".
Your tech indicated : "... access Device Manager, locate the drive and
perform the following... 1) Right-click on the unallocated volume and
select Initialize (use MBR to initialize). 2) Right-click on the
unallocated volume once again and this time select New Simple Volume.
Follow the new simple volume wizard to setup your drive for data
storage. Once the format process completes, your drive will appear in
explorer as a storage drive."
Where is the "unallocated volume" ? I don't see it anywhere in the
Device Manager. Probably a dumb question, but what is "... MBR ..." ?
 * * * *
Informed comments most welcome & thanks.

Real disk drive companies have helpful web pages :-)
You can use these pages, even when you didn't buy
a product here. That's because these guys have been in
business a bit longer.
http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/182615en
And it's like Rene says, you need Disk Management.
In Start : Run, you can execute "diskmgmt.msc" and
that brings up the Disk Management window. Just
as Device Manager is "devmgmt.msc", but for this job
you don't need Device Manager. You can use Device
Manager to "prove" the device is detected, but after
that, it's off to Disk Management to actually deal
with the drive. That's where the real work gets done.
And after you've defined your Simple Volume, you can
right click and "Explore" to open it.
Most people would be putting an OS on their SSD,
so you don't need to make the SSD setup "too pretty"
at this time. If your intent is to use the SSD
as a scratch drive, then yes, one big NTFS partition
would be as good a choice as any.
Since cheap SSDs are usually smaller than 2TB, doing
an MBR setup is good enough. Doing a GPT setup might
help prevent space wastage, on a really large drive.
The largest SSD available today, is 40TB in size, and
has the form factor of a 3.5" hard drive, and it would
*definitely* benefit from a GPT setup. Too bad nobody
can afford one of those. They cost as much as your
car or truck.
   Paul

I know Paul, this is a baby drive, :-)
I was ordering filter wicks for my humidifier on Amazon a couple days
ago and decided to browse SSDs for the hell of it and spotted this entry
level drive for $30.00 CDN (less a penny) so ordered 2 but they had a
one per customer thing at that price.
This won't be a working drive as I have cloned my C: drive to it and it
will sit in my desk drawer as a backup only, in addition to my weekly
Macrium backups on anther external disconnected drive.
A safety net you might say :-)

Rene

[J. P. Gilliver (John)]

In message <***@mid.individual.net>, Rene Lamontagne
<***@shaw.ca> writes:
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Post by Rene Lamontagne
I know Paul, this is a baby drive, :-)
I was ordering filter wicks for my humidifier on Amazon a couple days
ago and decided to browse SSDs for the hell of it and spotted this
entry level drive for $30.00 CDN (less a penny) so ordered 2 but they
had a one per customer thing at that price.
This won't be a working drive as I have cloned my C: drive to it and it
will sit in my desk drawer as a backup only, in addition to my weekly
Macrium backups on anther external disconnected drive.
A safety net you might say :-)
Rene

If it's big enough - despite being a baby one - that you've cloned your
C: to it, why not actually use it (and get the speed advantage of the
SSD), and keep your hard drive as the backup?


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[Rene Lamontagne]

Post by J. P. Gilliver (John)
[]

Post by Rene Lamontagne
I know Paul, this is a baby drive, :-)
I was ordering filter wicks for my humidifier on Amazon a couple days
ago and decided to browse SSDs for the hell of it and spotted this
entry level drive for $30.00 CDN (less a penny) so ordered 2 but they
had a one per customer thing at that price.
This won't be a working drive as I have cloned my C: drive to it and
it will sit in my desk drawer as a backup only, in addition to my
weekly Macrium backups on anther external disconnected drive.
A safety net you might say  :-)
Rene

If it's big enough - despite being a baby one - that you've cloned your
C: to it, why not actually use it (and get the speed advantage of the
SSD), and keep your hard drive as the backup?
Ever been frustrated that you can't *disagree* with a petition? If so, visit
255soft.uk - and please pass it on, too.

Hi John, My C: drive is already an SSD, I am cloning an SSD to An SSD,
My backup hard drive is an external 1TB spinner which is disconnected
until required.
My Coolermaster 690-II case has a hotswap bay built into the top, I can
switch drives in a few seconds can boot to any OS that I have stored on
SSDs.
My C: drive is a 120 GB drive *but* I do not allow anything to be
installed on it except Windows 10 and a few small utilities that will
not install on another drive, So at the moment my Windows on C: drive is
about 29.6 GB, Plenty of room.

Rene