Windows 10: One SSD disk shows only half of the capacity and second SSD disc does not show up at all

Dear Microsoft community,I'll be descriptive but brief.STORYMy former laptop SSD, Windows 11 has died, so i have bought a new laptop SSD, without OS. I have transfered the former SSD disk to the new laptop, turned the laptop on, and it worked with the former system and files. But I decided to buy retail version of Windows and install that on the new SSD disk and clear the former SSD disk. Succesfully, I have installed the WIndows 11 on the new disk whils formatted the old SSD disk during booting I think so. Now the system works well Windows 11 retail version on new SSD disk, however wi

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SSD Not showing in Device Manager after OS Reinstall

Hi Dan,

I've gone through the steps.

1. In DIsk management, no uninitialized disk showed up.

2,3,4 Not applicable since it doesnt show up in disk management.

Also, Minitool partition wizard doesn't see the SSD either, probably because the BIOS doesn't recognize the SSD (the drive type shows None).

5. Drive doesnt show up in Minitool so not doable.

6. The SSD is enabled in the BIOS. I've tried disabling then re-enabling.

As for updating the drivers, I've updated the IDE ATA/ATAPI controller drivers, and also tried Intel's SSD Toolkit to see drivers, but nothing found that's related to SSD.

The final step using seaTools says it doesnt test SATA.

 

Drive not showing full capacity after installing image backup to new ssd drive.

Hi,

I upgraded to a bigger ssd drive after the old one became quite full. I used an image backup to do this. All works well after the reinstallation of the new drive. Only problem is my new ssd drive does not show it's full capacity. I still says it is full
in file explorer. Disk management shows the extra space as unallocated. I tried creating a new simple volume but file explorer still does not see it as part of drive C. Still get the message that it is full...(only seeing the old drive size)

How can I get drive C to show it's full capacity? Please help.

 

SSD showing up as HDD

Hello Ingo-Stefan. I'm Greg, here to help you with this.

If you type defrag in Search, open and select Change Settings, you can uncheck the box to run on schedule and it won't run.

There are some reasons for this mistake SSD > HDD here:

https://superuser.com/questions/1006877/windows...

https://superuser.com/questions/1580405/why-doe...

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/new-ssd...

https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/ssd-sho...

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1042883-ssd-sho...

https://techblog.devlat.eu/2017/02/02/your-shin...

Feel free to ask back any questions. Based on the detailed results you post back, I will have other suggestions if necessary.

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