SSD

Question

Activation SSD. Have just installed the second SSD. The second disc is visible on BIOS, however still disactivated on PC

ejn63 · Answer

The drive needs to be partitioned and formatted before Windows will be able to use it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-and-format-a-hard-disk-partition-bbb8e185-1bda-ecd1-3465-c9728f7d7d2e

Slava K · Answer

@ejn63​ Thank you for support. There is a broken access link some where. I could not find Administrative Tools on my XPS 9700

ejn63 · Answer

Just type disk management in the search bar -- the administrator will appear.

Slava K · Answer

Thank you and looks formatted now. Local disc D is at the tree now. One question is how to link it to New SSD of capacity 520 GB ...

ejn63 · Answer

You cannot -- it will remain a separate drive.

Slava K · Answer

There is screen shot taken after formatting

Slava K · Answer

Regretfully I can't see a new SSD drive and can't use it. It run behind somewhere.

Slava K · Answer

New disc D: created, visible at tree now and size 15 Mb

Slava K · Answer

How to add disc 2 into disc management ?

Slava K · Answer

OnOnly disc 1 is available here

Slava K · Answer

I have no idea how to make in running as the second disc, New SSD as default drive on D:

ejn63 · Answer

What model Inspiron do you have -- Inspiron 3593, 7501, etc?

Slava K · Answer

Sorry it's DELL XPS 9700

Slava K · Answer

RAM has been updated and running well. It was empty SSD slot and 520 Gb SSD Kingston set up today. Formatted and working well, however could not be seen as additional, the second laptop drive

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