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At this point it seems its this SSD is too modern for this model of laptop. What's the goal? TO use the SSD in this Dell Inspiron.

At this point I added the drive back into the Dell Inspirion (removing the mechanical drive) where I loaded a setup iso from Ubuntoo and Minto (yes both Linux based operating systems) where the SSD was not seen but either installer. However, this method is only helpful when the SSD drive is properly connected to the computer but not showing up in This PC or My Computer. Assigning a new drive letter is the simplest way to fix SSD not showing up issue. I made it bootable for modern operating systems. Fix SSD Not Showing Up by Assigning a New Drive Letter. I was able to "initailize" the SSD! After all this I was happy to see the drive is fully detected. I ended up using the disk management tools under that same Windows 10 i5 PC. I was successful in seeing the drive under the both pieces of Samsung software (magician and the migration tool) but only when I plugged the drive into the serial ata ports on the motherboard, not using my Vantec SATA enclosure. I tried the same procedure on a modern i5 PC with Windows 10. I used a USB 3 Vantec SATA enclosure drive with the Samsung SSD loaded. Sadly the Samsung Magician is not supported under Windows Vista. I did use the Samsung migration tool which did not detect the drive under Windows Vista. The Dell Inspiron Laptop has a dualboot of Windows Vista and Ubuuto. I missed some important details as this was a late night post.