Windows 7 - SSD is unallocated?

[romannyc]

Hello everyone, im in a pickle.i just installed a second SSD to my system, in my computer i dont see it. i went to disk management and it shows

 

[whs]

As it says, you have to initialize that SSD and then define a partition with a drive letter. Then it will show. Make sure the partition is aligned.

 

[romannyc]

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[romannyc]

As it says, you have to initialize that SSD and then define a partition with a drive letter. Then it will show. Make sure the partition is aligned.

what do you mean by align the partition.

 

[whs]

See here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/113967-ssd-alignment.html?ltr=S

 

[romannyc]

See here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/113967-ssd-alignment.html?ltr=S

can you please confirm if i did this right please.

step 1. i initialized a drive letter
step 2. Diskpart
step 3 List disk
step 4 Select disk n (where n is the number that was given for your SSD in List disk)
step 5 Clean
step 6 Create partition primary align=1024
step 7 Format fs=ntfs quick
????? Active (assuming you want to install an OS)
step 8 Exit

****I DID NOT DO THE "ACTIVE" STEP BECAUSE I AM NOT INSTALLING WINDOWS****



Step 9 Verification:

 

[whs]

Looks OK.

 

[romannyc]

Looks OK.

thank you so much!

 

[AddRAM]

All new drives will ask you to initialize it, just pay attention to the screen and you`ll be fine, you did a great job

 

[romannyc]

Looks OK.

Im back :shock:

i turned on my computer this morning and it said "bootmgr is missing", i put in the windows disk and did repair and that was fixed.

however when i go into "My Computer" i see the following

DISK K is the SSD i was installing yesterday

 

[whs]

I see nothing wrong with the SSD. What do you want to do with it ??

 

[romannyc]

I see nothing wrong with the SSD. What do you want to do with it ??

i figured i messed something up because i never had a reserved partition showing in the my computer

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Did you deliberately assign that D drive letter to System Reserved?

I wouldn't do that.

 

[romannyc]

Did you deliberately assign that D drive letter to System Reserved?

I wouldn't do that.

no i assigned my 2nd SSD as that letter. i shut down my pc, next day it says boot manager missing so i repaired it with windows disk. when i went to my computer i saw that reserved partition.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

System Reserved is typical and is found on most Windows 7 installations.

But it's NOT required. I don't have it. It can be avoided and you apparently had avoided it until you ran the repair.

But, it's NOT typical for System Reserved to have a drive letter.

Off the top of my head, I'm not sure of the negative consequences of it having a drive letter, but it's not standard.

 

[AddRAM]

Just remove the letter from the system reserved partition

But now, I guess because you ran startup repair, all the correct files are on C, so in theory, the system reserved partition can be deleted altogether and the unallocated space can be added to C and it will look like this. Mind you I do not use a page file, that`s the only difference you`ll see.

That decision is totally up to you.

 

[whs]

Brian is right. I had originally missed the disk management picture. Your C partition contains the bootmgr. No need to copy it. I have removed my prior post so that the issue does not get confused.