Aspire TC-855-ES17 Adding a ssd as a second drive problem's

Johnny_English54

I Have Just added a Sandisk 3D 2TB drive to my Aspire TC-855-ES17 after rebooting I can see the drive in the device manager and all seems ok but I cannot see the drive in the Disk Management can anyone help? I am out of ideas

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Puraw

https://community.acer.com/en/discussion/694845/adding-a-ssd-as-a-second-drive-problems

Capacity may be too large, only up to 512 GB NVMe SSD has been tested:
https://www.userbenchmark.com/System/Acer-Aspire-TC-885/93029

Larryodie

How to Initialize Your SSD for Windows®

Before you can use your new SSD you have to initialize and partition it. If you are performing a clean installation of your operating system, or cloning to your SSD, it is not neccessary to follow these steps. A clean installation of your operating system or cloning to an SSD will initialize and partition the new SSD.

Note: if you simply need to format/reformat a drive, only steps 5-9 below will be needed, assuming your SSD has previously been initialized. 

1. Attach the SSD as a secondary drive and load Windows from your existing drive.
2. In Windows 7 and earlier, open Disk Management by right clicking on Computer and selecting Manage, then Disk Management.
3. In Windows 8 and later, move the mouse to the lower left corner of your desktop and right-click on the Start icon, then select Disk Management.
4. When Disk Management opens, a pop-up will appear and prompt you to initialize the SSD.
5. Select GUID partition table (GPT) and click OK. MBR (Master Boot Record) is best for certain legacy software compatibility, but GPT is better for modern systems and higher capacity storage devices.
6. Right-click in the area that says Unallocated and select New Simple Volume...
7. The New Simple Volume Wizard will open, click Next.
8. Leave the Specify Volume Size as the maximum (default value) and click Next.
9. Select a Drive Letter and click Next.
10. In the Format Partition screen, decide on a Volume label (the name you want to give the drive) and click Next.

billsey

Capacity isn't an issue with a 2TB drive, even if you screwed up and configured it as MBR instead of GPT. If it shows up in Device Manager, then is should show in Disk Management, though likely as unallocated space. Show us a picture of both Device Manager and Disk Management…