Now choose a drive letter Now name your new SSD All done! Your new SSD will now be usable on your PC. The default number that appears here automatically is the max storage available (yep, 500GB becomes 476B when formatted.) so just go with what pops up and click next. Right click on the black drive and select ‘new simple volume’ The tool will then pop up, click next to begin! The first thing it will ask us to do is to specify the volume size You’ll see your new SSD in here but it will be coloured black to indicate it’s not currently active. This will make the ‘create and format hard disk partitions’ tool pop up. Press/Click the windows key and type in ‘partition’ then press enter/click The new drive won’t be usable until we activate it. With the new storage now installed, turn the PC on and let it boot into windows as normal. Once you’ve plugged your new SSD or HDD you’ll need to activate the drive and assign it a name or letter.

The first step is going to plugging your drive into the PC, we’ve popped a quick video at the bottom of this blog from GGPC Instagram showing where the cables usually are for this 🙂

Installing os on ssd new build