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SSD showing up as a microsoft storage space device

Anonymous
2019-07-02T16:02:31+00:00

Hello

About a week ago my laptop stopped working, because my 512gb Samsung ssd 840 Pro series hard drive failed somehow. I moved the drive to my desktop pc, and found that it had had its partitions deleted somehow. I downloaded multiple applications to save some of my personal data from the drive, with the intention of formatting the drive and reinstalling windows on it.

I formatted the drive succesfully and put it back in my laptop. I booted from my usb drive containing a windows media creation tool and installed windows on the ssd. However, my laptop refuses to boot from the ssd.

I ran diskpart on command prompt, and it shows my ssd as a "microsoft storage space device". Also the drive's type shows up as "spaces". My working ssd on my desktop pc shows up by its own name and its type is "ATA". I think this is why the drive can't be used as a boot drive, am I right? I really don't know.

I have run out of patience, please help me! I wan't to install windows on this drive.

Thank you!

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  1. Anonymous
    2019-12-06T22:49:43+00:00

    Hi Lomppu, so how do you format the ssd properly after the update? Since I have the same problem that my Samsung 860 QVO 1TB shows 'microsoft storage space device', and I want to fix it, can you help me? Thanks

    Hi, to fix this go to storage spaces, delete the pool and all storage spaces and then create a volume with disk management.

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  2. Anonymous
    2019-07-04T15:38:08+00:00

    Hello!

    Thank you for your responses.

    It turns out that the newest update of windows 10 had added a feature, that converted all formatted drives to ”microsoft storage space devices” by default. I only had to format the drive again with different settings to get it working.

    Thank you for your help.

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  3. Anonymous
    2019-07-03T09:50:51+00:00

    Hi Lomppu,

    Thank you for posting on Microsoft Community.

    This conversation was started in the Finnish speaking Community, but since the conversation is in English I'll move this thread to the English speaking Community instead.

    Kind regards,

    -Jouni_E

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  4. Anonymous
    2019-07-02T20:56:21+00:00

    The ssd drive showing up as a microsoft storage space device instead of a boot drive is an internal drive.

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  5. Anonymous
    2019-07-02T20:42:50+00:00

    HI I Hear that the summer update failed. But did you tell me whether that machine's hard drive or external?

    However,  disconnect the cable other than the device 1 PC Disc ("SSD" or "HHD") Then place the Internet connection with the cable / as well as the specified device boot from the control panel for charging 6t Then download  :    https://www.microsoft.com/en -GB / software-download / Windows 10

    Choose your version (home os pro) Wots load in yor device .  Remember after that check for updates on them is 3 or 4 after they restart the machine again.

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