Help bran new Samsung SSD 850 EVO (250gb) Not operating properly.

[TOASTED_PIE]

My samsung SSD says it has entities taking space up on it but is completely empty and not allowing me to unpack anything because there is "Not enough space", I installed it myself and have had past experiences with installing them and been careful with my static electricity, but yet it doesn't work.

 

[the54thvoid]

The steam error implies you have your steam directory on F. Steam won't run from a new directory unless you change file paths etc.
There's a file directory exe called Tree size or treefile(?), i'm on my mobile now so cant check, which can examine the space usage of drives, you could try that.

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

Hey Thanks for the fast reply, it just says I have $RECYCLE.BIN which takes up 6.7MB and System Volume Information which takes up 20KB.

 

[RCoon]

Your F: drive only has 98MB on it. No wonder steam won't install anything on there

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

Your F: drive only has 98MB on it. No wonder steam won't install anything on there

Yea I know, that's the problem it should be 250GB....

 

[the54thvoid]

Your F: drive only has 98MB on it. No wonder steam won't install anything on there

Its odd tho, its a new 250gb drive with no space.

Its not the OS, I assume so it should have been simple plug and play?

@OP, check in BIOS for which says connection its on, or even if its bring recognised.

 

[RCoon]

It may need initialising in Disk Manager first. Reformat (ensure to NTFS) in Disk Manager after initialising and bringing online.

EDIT: Did you install your OS onto your 120GB drive while the 250GB drive was plugged in? If so, what's happened is during OS installation, Windows dumped 100MB flags on each other drive installed. This created a 100MB partition on the 250GB SSD, and left the other 249GB unpartitioned.

Go into Disk Manager, you'll find a giant black bar across an unformatted part of the SSD, format it to NTFS and your drive is alive. Also in future, unplug every drive when installing windows besides the drive you're installing to. 100MB boot flags are irritating.

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

Its odd tho, its a new 250gb drive with no space.

Its not the OS, I assume so it should have been simple plug and play?

@OP, check in BIOS for which says connection its on, or even if its bring recognised.

Its coming up as a 250GB SSD as per normal and under port 5, so I have no clue to why it isn't working.

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

It may need initialising in Disk Manager first. Reformat (ensure to NTFS) in Disk Manager after initialising and bringing online.

EDIT: Did you install your OS onto your 120GB drive while the 250GB drive was plugged in? If so, what's happened is during OS installation, Windows dumped 100MB flags on each other drive installed. This created a 100MB partition on the 250GB SSD, and left the other 249GB unpartitioned.

Go into Disk Manager, you'll find a giant black bar across an unformatted part of the SSD, format it to NTFS and your drive is alive. Also in future, unplug every drive when installing windows besides the drive you're installing to. 100MB boot flags are irritating.

No my 250Gb SSD is brand new whereas I've had my 120GB for a year or two now.

 

[RCoon]

No my 250Gb SSD is brand new whereas I've had my 120GB for a year or two now.

Have you checked Disk Manager yet? Please print screen your Disk Manager page for us.

Nothing we can do until you show us what Disk Manager sees.

EDIT: Also, please don't double post. I know you're new so it's fair enough, but we have an edit button for editing posts

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

 

[RCoon]

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Disk 2, format from RAW to NTFS

The F: drive is you ballsing up your partitioning and trying to add it alongside your OS partition. You can ignore that for now, or reinstall Windows at some point.

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

Disk 2, format from RAW to NTFS

The F: drive is you ballsing up your partitioning and trying to add it alongside your OS partition. You can ignore that for now, or reinstall Windows at some point.

And how do i do that? sorry I'm kinda a noob when it comes to this sort of stuff.

 

[Steve-007UK]

From the looks of it your F: drive is part of your os drive and nothing to do with your SSD.

From what i see your SSD drive is in raw format at the moment and has no drive letter so you need to format it.

In your list this drive is Disk 2

Right click on disk 2 and it should offer you the option to format it and set a drive letter and choose the file type so you would want to use NTFS.

 

[RCoon]

And how do i do that? sorry I'm kinda a noob when it comes to this sort of stuff.

Right click the RAW block on Disk two, click "Format...". Under "File system" drop down menu, choose NTFS.

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

Right click the RAW block on Disk two, click "Format...". Under "File system" drop down menu, choose NTFS.

So is that it?

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

Right click the RAW block on Disk two, click "Format...". Under "File system" drop down menu, choose NTFS.

Because it is still coming up that it is still a 99MB under computer however its coming up as the right size under Disk Management

 

[Steve-007UK]

Make sure your giving the new drive a different letter so as an example when you format the drive you tell it to use h:

Once done right the new drive will show as h: under computer.

Remember each new drive needs its own drive letter.

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

Make sure your giving the new drive a different letter so as an example when you format the drive you tell it to use h:

Once done right the new drive will show as h: under computer.

Remember each new drive needs its own drive letter.

My USB is coming up as H xD but my SSD is still F

 

[Steve-007UK]

No the 99MB's partition is showing as F: and this is not your SSD drive.

Your SSD drive is disk 2 according to disk manager and its in raw format it has no drive letter.

You need to right click on disk 2 in disk manager, this will then give you an option to set the drive letter and file system type, You need to format and set the drive letter to something that is not in the list already.

In your case i would personally set the drive letter to I or J as your other devices are using C to H.

If you still have trouble i can help you out over teamveiwer if you are happy to let someone else connect to you remotely, will only take 2 mins to sort the drive for you.

 

[RCoon]

my SSD is still F

Ignore the F: drive completely and forever. It is totally irrelevant, and is not related to your 250GB drive.

You need to right click on disk 2 in disk manager, this will then give you an option to set the drive letter and file system type

This.

 

[xorbe]

OP is so confused, but the answer is so obvious, lol.

Hide the F: drive -- it's a special Windows partition. That disk must've been your primary at one point.

On disk 2 (the SDD in question), delete the partition, then create. Or maybe what he said up there, maybe it just needs a drive letter.

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

 

[TOASTED_PIE]

OP is so confused, but the answer is so obvious, lol.

Hide the F: drive -- it's a special Windows partition. That disk must've been your primary at one point.

On disk 2 (the SDD in question), delete the partition, then create. Or maybe what he said up there, maybe it just needs a drive letter.

I am confused xD, so how do i do that (Im so nooby at this )

 

[RCoon]

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Right click that J: drive and press Explore. Go check your My Computer afterwards and it should show up.