Need help with SSD

[Poltr]

Hellos

I just bought a second SSD but it isn't showing up anywhere but in the motherboard bios. I've tried googling to find some help but the only things I find are people with laptops or people trying to clone or migrate data and I've no idea if any of those help me at all so I'm at a loss as to what to do.

It does NOT show up in
My computer
Device Manager
Disk management
Samsung Magician

The only place where I've been able to see it was like I said above is in the motherboard bios after spamming the Del key during startup.

I've win10 installed on my first SSD a Samsung pro 840. The new one is a samsung evo 850.

Thanks for your time.

[DeltrusDisc]

That's really odd...

I'm trying to think of what it could be but it sounds like you've got everything so far covered.

Do you have an old Windows ISO DVD lying around? I'd wonder if you could boot into it and see if it sees your SSD or not, not suggesting you install Windows, but just see if it sees the SSD or not, since if it doesn't, we can probably rule that something is messed up with the SSD and you should RMA it.

It should definitely show up in Disk Management.

[Poltr]

Unfortunately I don't have any of the install disks.

[Thunderball]

It's probably a faulty firmware. You could either RMA it or try to fix it.

[lloose]

If it doesnt show up in bios and all the connections are good, its most likely dead. A very minor thing you can try is switch the sata port that its plugged into on your motherboard. Some motherboards have 2 controllers (generally for raid purposes) and if this is the case, the controller might not like the SSD. Its a long shot but worth the 30 seconds to try it out.

[Poltr]

If it doesnt show up in bios and all the connections are good, its most likely dead. A very minor thing you can try is switch the sata port that its plugged into on your motherboard. Some motherboards have 2 controllers (generally for raid purposes) and if this is the case, the controller might not like the SSD. Its a long shot but worth the 30 seconds to try it out.

see.. it DOES show up in the motherboard bios but does NOT show up anywhere else. That's why I'm so confused with this.

[chazus]

Does it show up in the same 'area' as your primary? Or does it show up in a RAID or other controller area?

[Poltr]

Does it show up in the same 'area' as your primary? Or does it show up in a RAID or other controller area?

The only place I've been able to find it in the motherboard bios was under Boot Override next to the other ssd and hdd

[Cyrops]

This might be a long shot, but download some Linux distro and leave only new SSD pluged in, then try to install Linux on it :/

[Poltr]

This might be a long shot, but download some Linux distro and leave only new SSD pluged in, then try to install Linux on it :/

That was exactly what worked. Thank you sir.
I downloaded the Ubuntu installed and burned it onto a disk and then ran Ubuntu itself off the disk without installing anything and it let me format the drive. Went back into windows and reformatted the drive again now that it actually showed up in win10 and all is good with the world again.

[DeltrusDisc]

Yay glad to hear all is well in the Poltr household!

[Cyrops]

Cool beans.