And short! When videos start out with something like "In the beginning, a mathematician named Alan Turing developed something called a computer in order to...", I'm thinking "I know that! Just finish the sentence that the title of the video started!"
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
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!
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 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.
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!
Wow I spent 2hrs browsing online on how to make my hard drive work and nothing worked came on to TH-cam and boom problem solved within 5minutes. You are a life saver
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 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
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
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.
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!
@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
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
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
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.
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
@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
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.
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
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
@@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".
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?
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
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 :)
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
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
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!
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Great video. It made installing my new drive quick and easy. Thanks!
Thanks! It helped me set up my 1tb M.2 Drive
thx maTE
@@geirigeirason4216 LOL
thank you! Helped me out as I just bought a new SSD drive and its working now! cheers mate
Now thats how you do a tutorial. No waffeling, straight to the point, well explained and at a steady pace. Good Job Sir
Thanks!
@@MDTechVideos but what if the ssd does not shown thwre
@@MDTechVideos what should i do now
@@vekezy1802 throw out the build start again
@@MDTechVideos it just wiped all my data on my drives 🤯
Why can't everybody give easy tutorials like this?
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Phoenix facts
And short!
When videos start out with something like "In the beginning, a mathematician named Alan Turing developed something called a computer in order to...", I'm thinking "I know that! Just finish the sentence that the title of the video started!"
Ik right some people are so complicated
fr man
I was freaking out when I bought a new SSD. You save the day man. Like for sure!
You're welcome!
lmao same
SAME BRO THANK YOU !
Same but this was the first thing i found on the internet
5 years later still perfect tutorial. Love people like you! 10/10!
Lifesaver for us new builders out there 👌
Factual bro. My first build and I ran out of storage super quick.
trueeeeeeeeee
Yup
YES LET'S GO
Facts
2 yrs later...still a major help for many people. Thanks!! 🙏
Agreed, thank you for posting this!
You saved me from a heart attack on thinking I had a defective drive. Thanks my guy.
hell yeah thanks A lot brother
me too
Thanks man I was in the same predicament
Honestly I thought I wasted $100 this was a life saver
I got an open box drive and thought the same thing
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
Glad I could help
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!
dude how does no one else have this up lol . thank you
You're welcome!
I straight up forget every single time I install a new hard drive, this was clear and concise. Thank you.
You're welcome!
Yeah literally had no clue about this when I got my new SSD. I will never forget this.
Nice, information is knowledge.
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.
@@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.
@@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.
@@mikeexits either double check the connection or it might be that you just got a lemon. sucks if it's the second thing....
Thank you! I was thinking my cables weren't connected properly or something 😂
sameeee bro
same. lifesaver
Mee too
First PC, and thought I already broke it
I just built my fist pc and same it has been driving me crazy.
You sir just saved me from haveing a massive adult size tantrum over 20tb
thats a lot of hentai
20 TB dude wtf you got on there?? 🤣🤣
This dude done traded in his brand new car for the m.2 ssd instead
@@bigguspeepus9596 thats light work to him he tryna go to 50
Thanks! I changed my operating system to a m.2 then couldn't find my HDD until I found this video.
Glad I could help!
Years later and this video came clutch, I appreciate you so much, giving love from 2020
2 years later and it’s still relevant, thank you
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.
Glad it helped
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!
Glad it helped
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!
Wow I spent 2hrs browsing online on how to make my hard drive work and nothing worked came on to TH-cam and boom problem solved within 5minutes.
You are a life saver
Glad to help Jorge.
4 years later and you're still saving lives sir! thank you!
Glad to help!
After finding no practical information from the manufacturer of a new internal hard drive, your activation instructions were excellent and very clear. Thank you.
Glad it helped
Thank you. This was the only missing info from every tutorial out there. Did not know what simple volume was.
You're welcome!
Thanks For the Tutorial dude! It works for me! :D
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!
@@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
Smooth. Right to the point and no useless talking and stalling. Much appreciated!
Excellent tutorial video, couldn't find this piece of information anywhere else! TH-cam University hero.
You're welcome!
Same, simple and clear
Your absolutely right
YES, a statue of example to all youtubers doing tutorials.No background music, no bullshit, straight to the point!
Glad to help.
People like you are the reason I can use computers, thank you.
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!
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
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.
you are a mvp.
@@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
Life saver
that... explains a lot
Me, after watching countless videos for my issue, finds this video and learns how simple it is. Damn :D
Thank you for being simple and straight to the point and not going around what we are asking for, love this man
Great tutorial! Needed a quick refresher and this was straight to the point and concise.
Thanks!
Of all the tutorials I’ve ever watched on TH-cam this is the ONLY one that’s worked first try.
Glad to help.
Thank you so much, recently bought a really expensive 1tb m.2 ssd and i thought i had broke it, works perfectly now!
You're welcome!
En svensk Jävel installera du windows på den eller har du det på en annan ssd?
The sale thing with me, i was so scared lol
The black unallocated isn't showing up for me, what do I do?
Easily the most straight forward, helpful tutorial I’ve ever watched. Thank you so much. I’ll be subscribing for sure
Just finished building my pc, Save my life, thank you my dude 💝
I don't like TH-cam videos that often but I had to like this... Straightforward and it resolved my issue seamlessly
You're welcome!
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!
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!
haha exactly the same thing has just happened to me :D god bless the people making these tutorials
I was scared that I had to open my pc back up and fix the SSD 😂
same bro.
TRueeeeeeee but we were at least smart enough to check on youtube first :D
ong same
i looked bc i thought it wasnt plugged in i had to move so many cables
SAAAME!!! I was so annoyed and frustrated
Video 6 years old, and the tips still works, cheers mate!
Glad it helped
epico, thank you dude.
Any time
@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
how did i find you here, i love your music btw
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
Sameee
lol
I appreciate this tutorial video. It helped me set up my new SSD, it was straight forward and easy to follow along. Thank you.
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
Glad I could help
Thank you for making this simple, to the point and easy to understand. Saved me a lot of time/stress!
Glad it helped!
Extremely well made and detailed video. Excellent job, and thank you for helping me set up my new ssd :)
Worked for my m.2 drive which wasn't showing up. YOU'RE A GENIUS
You're welcome!
Hey 6 years later and this is the only video that helped me! Thank you and God bless you and your family!
Glad it helped!
This was god tier, thank you bro!
You're welcome!
MDTechVideos thanks for this just made my first pc and my ssd wasn’t showing up thanks!!
Mate, this was the best computer experience in my life. It was easy, satisfying and it really worked
Holy shit thank you so much
You're welcome!
YOOO THX SO MUCH I JUST BOUGHT AN M.2 SSD AND I WAS FREAKING OUT. IT WORKED THX
You're welcome
God bless you!
Very easy and well explained video.
I performed the same steps while watching the video and it's all done.
Thanks
4 hours of research and all I needed was this goddamn video. You’re the best!
Thanks man, even if its 5 years old videos it can still help me do what i need
Glad I could help
Thank You, You did help me out, Short and Sweet, I was installing a new 1 terabyte M.2 drive
I'm so glad i came here before i went and returned my hard drive! i thought it just wasn't working😂😂
Same but i had an ssd
Bro....THANK YOU!!
Happy to help
@@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
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.
literally the best video tutorial Ive ever watched!
Great!
Cheers mate, helped a lot getting my 2nd ssd up and running
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! 💪🏾
Glad it helped!
6 years later, you're still saving lives out here champ!
Glad it helped
I miss helpful videos like this. Short, to the point, and everything I needed to know.
Thank you very much! Just got a samsung 970 evo and was scared when it didnt show up lol
You're welcome!
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.
Also here for 970 Evo not showing up...
Solar me too I bought an 860 and a 970. Neither showed up. Must be a Samsung thing
@@4someforlife nope
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
Hey @Zapo, did you ever get this resolved?
same rn..
@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
Thanks I was stuck on this. Very simple but useful.
Your welcome!
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.
Glad I could help
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
You're welcome!
You sir, are a legend, thanks for the quick guide
You're welcome!
I've had to watch this 3 times. I forget between new SSD purchases.
I have done this like 5 times over the years and I always forget. Fantastic tutorial.
Glad to help!
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
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
Me too
Me too. Anyone get this figured out?
SadBoySerf I’m tryna get this figured out as well
Mine was literally just not plugged in all the way. Idk if that’s y’all problem but that’s what happened with mine.
Tommy Thompson read my reply to myrtle
It's not even showing up on the create new partition
any ideas?
did u ever figure this out
@ yes I did thanks man! It has something to do with the order of the partitions if I remember correctly?
@@TheSparkIdea what do u mean by orders? Like the spot in which u plugged the cables into?
@ yeah, I don’t know if it was just a faulty wire or what. It’s been a while but I haven’t touched it since lol
@TheSparkIdea i figured it out thanks for the response tho
Months of issues thinking my other M slots were broken...and the fix was this simple...Thank you so much.
Glad it helped!
I completely forgot that you needed to format the hard drive before you can use it.
One word to describe my feelings after watching this video: PHEW!
I freaking love you, ty for saving me from a heart attack!
You're welcome!
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!!
Glad I could help
This was exactly what I needed, Thank you!!
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?
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
None of my Drives are unallocated so none of them have the black bars on them only the blue ?
Probably not installed correctly or something is faulty
You have to initialize the drive 1st. Scroll to the bottom of the screen.
same
Moonpie Spotlight how do u initialize it?
@@5ohpablo Right click in the grey area, you should see a menu. Initialize disk is one o fhe options.
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
Glad it helped
In my personal case, only the bios recognise the new ssd. So I have no clue what to do.
Same boat
It's not showing up in the disk management?
@@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".
Mine isn't even showing up in my BIOS. :/ I don't know what to do.
My PC does not recognize SSD, no unallocated volume with black bar.
same an solution yet?
what if its not showing up in the partitions in the first place?
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?
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
@@alainwho mines in the m.2 slot. how do i get power to it?
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
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 :)
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
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
@@eliblessed interesting . I jus bought a 1tb ssd but wanna add another m.2. Whats ur motherboard?
@@josh5348 I have the MSI z490-a pro
My “new simple volume” isn’t lighting up
even mine
Same have you figured out who to fix it
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
Tadpoles Simonsays I’ve look through so many videos too and I still can’t find a solution
@@cadenwilliams639 I have the same problem. Have you managed to figure it out?
works 9-14-2019
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!
like dude if every channel just got down to business like this, i would be 5 years younger. subbed.
Glad it helped
4 years later and this helped me add a TB of SSD to my 2022 Helios Preditor, thank you.
still helping people 5 years later. thank you so much! 🖤
Glad it helped!
Used this video a few years ago. I just got a new drive and I came back to this video again 😂 love it!
Happy to help
Excellent Tutorial. Easy to follow and works perfectly! Thanks!
Glad it helped!