Windows 10: SSD will not initialise

Hello,When I open disk management, I se my C: drive and also my SSD drive which shows as "Not initialised".However, whenever I select the "initialise" option, the screen appears where I have to select the disk and either MBR or GPT, but when I do so and click OK, the screen closes and the little wheel spins for a second or so and nothing further happens.Any further advice how I can fix this, please?Thank you very much.

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SSD won't initialise, or partition.

I wanted to do a clean install of Windows 10, so I entered
DiskPart and performed a "clean" on the SSD, when I suffered a power loss.

After booting the machine back up, I was greeted with a "Recovery: Your PC needs to be repaired. Error 0xc0000034" which I was able to work around by removing the SSD and inserting my USB created with the Media Creation Tool.

When I progressed far enough to select a drive to install Windows 10 on, I plugged the SSD back in. It didn't show.

I removed the SSD again, and have it connected to a different machine via a SATA to USB cable. I opened up Disk Management, where the disk was visible but Not Initialised. I attempted to initialise it, but was told "The specified disk is not convertible
because the size is less than the minimum size required for GPT disks" and so I took to DiskPart once more to attempt to fix the problem.

Listing the disks, I see the SSD with the following information:

Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt

-------- --------- ----- ---- --- ---

Disk 2 Online 0 B 0 B

Selecting Disk 2, I attempted to create a primary partition, but "DiskPart has encountered an error: The device is not ready."

Everything I do seems to have no effect.

What can I do? There's nothing on the drive for me to lose, so I'm open to anything.

Best,

Thomas

 

Initialising a disk

Hi Sumit,

Thanks much for replying.

Yes I did format the hard drive before installing Windows in SSD.

If I initialise disk 1, won't it affect the files in SSD drive?

 

New SSD not recognised by Win 10 although Initialised

Everything up and running OK, have attached a snip of Disk Managment as suggested.
Have dowwnloaded a small program into Programs on the new disk and it is working OK.

The partitions on disk 2 are a bit of a mess at the moment. As about 8 weeks ago when C: was almost full. Widows did an upgrade and installed 2 files in the old HDD (see snips). The next day the DSG Flight Sim would not open until it had installed a 7GB upgrade and advised that there was insufficent space in C:.So selected D drive and it installed it there.
So I cloned D drive exactly as it was, in case windows need to access these files to operate.

>Can the Win 10 upgrade files be relocated to C: or just be left where they are and allow win 10 to sort it out on the next upgrade.
>How can I relocate all theDSG upgrade into the program partition