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Can't Configure Kingston SSD
Sent this to Kingston tech support :
* * * * 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. |
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Many thanks.
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Sent this to Kingston tech support : * * * * 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/article...S/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 |
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On 12/01/2018 5:18 PM, Paul wrote:
wrote: Sent this to Kingston tech support : Â** * * * 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 ..." ? Â** * * * 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/article...S/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. Â*Â* 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 |
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In message , Rene Lamontagne
writes: [] 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. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf [What's your guilty pleasure?] Why should you feel guilty about pleasure? - Michel Roux Jr in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013 |
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On 12/01/2018 9:38 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Rene Lamontagne writes: [] 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 sayÂ* :-) 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 |
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