SSD not showing up in disk management

maciasm1098

Just installed a Samsung 870 QVO and it's not showing up in my disk management but i can see it in BIOS and it shows up in my storage pool. Any tips?

TSTDavey

Hello @maciasm1098 and thanks for posting on the Microcenter Community forum. This should be a SATA SSD, have you tried connecting SSD in each of your motherboard's Sata ports? I"m assuming your board has at least 6 sata ports?

PowerSpec_MikeW

@maciasm1098

Windows automatically added the drive to your storage pool. Doesn't sound like this is what you wanted, so I would go into storage pools and remove the Samsung 870 QVO. Once you do so, you'll be able to see it in disk management.

maciasm1098

Response to TSTDavey: tried all ports, same results 
Response to TSMikeW: tried that and it’s not letting me remove it from the pool 

PowerSpec_MikeW

@maciasm1098

Needs to be prepared for removal. Try via control panel. Windows + R and type: Control

Go to System and Security - Storage Spaces. The drive should appear there, and there should be an option to "Prepare for removal". This could take some time.

maciasm1098

PowerSpec_MikeW

@maciasm1098

Delete the pool, which appears to be just the new drive. Then see if you can remove it. The alternative would be to remove it with the Set-PhysicalDisk cmdlet via powershell.

maciasm1098

That worked! Thank you for all your help!! 

Ian

You're welcome, glad to see we could help out. Please let us know if you have any other questions!