Where is My New SSD? | Learning to Run With Flash 2.0

You most likely arrived here one of two ways; sheer interest or you just installed your new SSD and cannot find it.  The latter is more common than most think and usually the after effect of installing a secondary SSD in your system.  After all, a migration of a former hard drive based system (which we NEVER recommend) wouldn’t cause this, nor would a fresh installation of Windows.

This has occurred as, when adding an SSD to your system, that SSD needs to be initialized before it will be recognized.  The process is very simple.  Right click on your Windows ORB/Start Button and select ‘Disk Management’, or simply type and select ‘Disk Management’ into Search  Our guess is that you found your SSD, or Disk as Windows likes to still incorrectly call it.

 
Next up, right click in the area where it says ‘Unallocated’, select ‘New Simple Volume, 4 x Next and Finish.  The next screen that will pop up will be your empty volume, typically now labelled as ‘D’ or any subsequent letter that may have been, or you may have chosen during the process.

That’s it!  Well almost…. I bet as you were selecting through those 4 x ‘Nexts’ you noticed that you had the option to select NTFS or exFAT as your file system and you are wondering which is preferred? Stay tuned as we will jump into that for our next ‘Quick Hit’ in Learning to Run with Flash 2.0.