If your motherboard comes with multiple SATA ports, it will have the option to disable or enable one of them in the BIOS/UEFI menu. If not shown, check Disk management utility and follow the above steps( solution 2 & 3) to format and assign. Once the drivers are installed, the device will be shown in WIndows explorer. (Hint: If you don’t find the device in Device manager skip to Solution 5).

Make sure you have a good and working internet connection.

Now, click on “Search automatically for Updated Drivers” and let it run for a while and install.

Under Disk Drives, right-click on the SSD and click on UpdateDrivers.

Open Device Manager by the Run command “devmgmt.msc”.

For that too, visit the manufacturer’s website for the motherboard.įor initially, you can use the Device Manager to update device drivers from windows update. It is also better to update the motherboard SATA controller drivers.

Visit the official website for the drive and download driver software for the drive and operating system you are on. In this case, you won’t find the device in Disk Management Utility. But if you are using an older version of windows, you might need specific drivers for such a case. So, windows will automatically install the required drivers.

Solution 4: Device drivers not installed properly:Įvery device requires drivers to work with the operating system. But if you did not use the drive previously on Linux, and it was due to any corruption, you have no other option to format the drive first and then use any third party Recovery tools to recover data. (Hint: If you don’t find the Drive in Disk Manager, skip to step 4)īut if you want your data, you can use Bootable Linux USBs to boot into a Linux system temporarily and recover data. In that case, right-click on it and select “New” and follow the steps to create a new partition. If the device is new, it will show as unallocated. You can change the Drive letter if you wish, after formatting it.You can select FAT32 if you want, but NTFS is recommended if you want to use it with Windows. Follow the instructions to format and for Filesystem, select NTFS.Right-click on the partition that is labeled as “RAW” and selects “Format.Find our SSD, if not assigned or initialized, do it first.Open Disk management utility, as mentioned above.

Ssd not showing up in windows explorer