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Picked up a 960GB Sandisk SSD last week, and finally got round to popping it in the Dell XPS. It fitted physically without trouble, but W10 wouldn't recognise it, and I couldn't find it in Dell's BIOS. After a bit of fiddling downloaded Sandisk's dashboard tool that DID find it (breathed sigh of relief) and then used Windows disc management to initialise and then partition it (simple NTFS partition) - now fully recognised. 
Started copying image files across from the old HDD in a caddy, and moved slightly to speak to my my as I did so - it was just enough to move the USB cable & break the connection, so that Windows saw the file source as no longer available. Unplugged and replugged, only to get a message telling me that Windows couldn't recognise the device (cue mild sense panic - most of the images ARE backed up, but I don't want to scrabble around recovering from backups). Fortunately just powering down the caddy, then switching back on was enough to sort the connection out & get things moving OK again.
So, if you're doing things like SSD upgrades and you hit a snag, don't panic - just calmly work through stuff & fix the problems.
Started copying image files across from the old HDD in a caddy, and moved slightly to speak to my my as I did so - it was just enough to move the USB cable & break the connection, so that Windows saw the file source as no longer available. Unplugged and replugged, only to get a message telling me that Windows couldn't recognise the device (cue mild sense panic - most of the images ARE backed up, but I don't want to scrabble around recovering from backups). Fortunately just powering down the caddy, then switching back on was enough to sort the connection out & get things moving OK again.
So, if you're doing things like SSD upgrades and you hit a snag, don't panic - just calmly work through stuff & fix the problems.
