From: ithinkiam@gmail.com
Steve wrote:
> I haven't been here in ages. It looks like there are still people here
> who can help with problems.
>
> My computer is at least 15 years old. It was upgraded to Windows 10 soon
> after it was available. I want to keep this computer going. (It can't be
> upgraded to Windows 11.) Once or twice a month it bogs down and needs to
> be restarted. It can take more than a few minutes before it gets back up
> to speed.
>
> For a long time, I wanted to switch over to a solid state drive. I
> finally bought one a couple of months ago and finally got around to
> installing it last week. my current hard drive is a 1 terabyte Western
> Digital. The new drive is a Samsung SATA 2.5 inch 1 TB drive.
>
> I downloaded the Samsung Magician software to transfer to the new drive.
> When I went to use it, it showed my current drive as the source drive
> and prompted me install the Samsung SSD drive. It was already there.
> After a couple of tries, I unhooke3d the ssd and plugged it in when
> prompted. Nothing.
>
> Thinking maybe a cable wasn't working, I shut it down and swapped the
> power and data wires between the 2 drives. It started right up as usual
> and the ssd still wasn't recognized. When I'm starting the computer, if
> I watch the screen, I see it identify my old drive "WD...(whatever)",
> then right below that I see "ssd EVO 870" which is exactly what the new
> drive is. So it recognizes that the new ssd is there, but it does not
> show up anywhere in File Explorer.
>
> So do I give up and consider the new ssd a waste of time and money?
> Can anyone think of a work around to make this work?
What does UEFI/BIOS report on the drives? Your SSD should be set as the
primary/bootable disk. It's a long time since I last did this, and I think
it needs to be done at the file system level before the BIOS will recognise
it.
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