SSD Partially Visible.

[Ualaa]

I received a 64gb Patriot Torqx SSD for Christmas this year.

The model number is: PFZ64GS25SSDR.

I can see the drive in Bios and in Device Manager, but it does not show up under My Computer. I'm not really sure where to go from here. I started a thread on the manufacturers tech forum, but there are a lot of fairly knowledgeable people here too.

I'm running Vista 64-bit, Home Premium.

Thanks in advance.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Start menu, right-click Computer and select Manage.
In the left pane, select Disk Management.
Find your SSD and format it.
It will then show up as a drive in My Computer.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ugh

[Ualaa]

Found the SSD under Disk Management.
There doesn't appear to be an option to format.

It says:

Disk 0 (C:)
Basic
139.73 GB
Online
Healthy (System, Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

Disk 1 (D:)
Basic
465.76 GB
Online
Healthy (Primary Partition)

Disk 2
Basic
59.3 GB
Online
Unallocated



Right Clicking on Disk 0 gives me the options:
Open, Explore, Change Drive Letter and Path, Shrink Volume, Properties and Help.

Right Clicking on Disk 1 gives me the options:
Open, Explore, Mark Partition as Active, Change Drive Letter and Path, Format, Extend Volume, Shrink Volume, Delete Volume, Properties and Help.

Right Clicking on Disk 2 gives me the options:
New Simple Volume, Properties and Help.

[Freddie]

I would try reassigning a new letter to partition D: (maybe Z: ) and see if that makes the partition show up in Explorer. If that works, I'd reassign C: to C:. and change Z: back to D:.

(I'd be cautious with C: since I assume you're booting from it..

[Ualaa]

C and D, are my existing drives; booting from C.
There is no drive letter for the SSD (Disk 2).

[Ualaa]

New Simple Volume, opens a wizard.
Have basically left everything to the default settings.
And it is formatting now.

Thanks, Ughmahedhurtz and Freddie.

[Freddie]

Oops, no need to thank me since my advice was 100% useless! I didn't look at the numbers -- my bad. (I thought you had already booted from the SSD.)

Glad you fixed it!

[Ualaa]

I've copied the entire wow folder (copy + paste) to the new SSD, which is F Drive on my system.

Will there be any issues patching, to a non: C:\Public folder, for Vista (64-bit, Home Premium)?

[Sajuuk]

I've copied the entire wow folder (copy + paste) to the new SSD, which is F Drive on my system.

Will there be any issues patching, to a non: C:\Public folder, for Vista (64-bit, Home Premium)?

The biggest I had was my symbolic links kept disappearing after patches. I then made a batch file to run after patching to remake them.

The game patched fine, I just lost the symbolic links. :)

[Ughmahedhurtz]

New Simple Volume, opens a wizard.
Have basically left everything to the default settings.
And it is formatting now.

Thanks, Ughmahedhurtz and Freddie.
Ah, yeah, forgot about the volume creation step that might show up. Glad you got past that! :)