From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/12/22 8:37:13, Paul wrote:   
   > On Mon, 12/22/2025 1:38 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   >> On 2025/12/22 3:32:31, Brian Gregory wrote:   
   >>> On 21/12/2025 19:38, Steve wrote:   
   >>>> So Disk Management knows it's there. Now I need to know how to format it   
   >>>> and give it a drive number.   
   >>>   
   >>> Let the disk cloning software do it.   
   >>>   
   >>> If you didn't understand why it didn't immediately have a drive letter   
   >>> then there's absolutely no chance at all the you would understand how to   
   >>> partition it ready for Windows.   
   >>>   
   >> I thought he said he'd tried the cloning software without success?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Cloning software will "see" a disk, even if the disk is "all zeros"   
   > and is completely and utterly flattened :-) I test stuff like this.   
   > I flatten disks, end to end, for forensics projects.   
      
   That's what I thought; if it doesn't, it's not very good as cloning   
   software!   
      
   However, from the OP's original post (2025-12-19 6:29:34 my [GMT] time):   
      
   "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."   
      
   That read to me (assuming this "Magician software" is in effect a   
   cloning software) as saying it wasn't working as you and I would have   
   expected it to.   
      
   >   
   > The disk can also be seen in Disk Management right now. The OP   
   > has printed in a post   
   >   
   >     "the next box shows 931.32 GB Unallocated"   
      
   Yes, I was relieved to see that - suggests that some part of his   
   computer is seeing something from the new (SSD) "drive".   
   >   
   > If that is partitioned as "MBR" from the left-most square on that   
   > row, then a partition can be added just for fun, so that a drive   
   > letter shows up in File Explorer.   
   >   
   > Otherwise as Brian says, use the cloning software to load it.   
   >   
   > But if the cloning software (for whatever reason) refuses   
   > to acknowledge the "931.32 GB Unallocated", then like a fisherman,   
   > you can manually set it up with MBR and add a partition, so it   
   > is more "obvious" to any other software.   
   >   
   > The cloning software "really really" should not need this.   
      
   We agree!   
   >   
   > But we're dealing with computers, and just about anything   
   > can happen with a computer.   
   >   
   >    Paul   
      
   :-(   
      
   Yes, I suppose I'd try manually making a partition in the "unallocated"   
   space on the new drive in Disk Management. Though with a sinking feeling   
   (in case the cloning software coughs if it sees anything on the target).   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()ALIS-Ch++(p)Ar++T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   interracial marriage was still illegal in 17 states in 1967.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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