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Manic! 06-19-2011 06:42 PM
New Hard drive not showing.
 
I bought a new 1 TB western digital black HD and it shows up in the bios and device manager but will not show up on My Computer on 2 systems running windows 7 I have tried it on. Any suggestions?

John 06-19-2011 06:49 PM
A new hard drive needs to the partitioned and formatted before it will be visible in "My Computer". In Windows, use "Disk Management" to perform these operations.

Manic! 06-19-2011 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by John (Post 7480272)
A new hard drive needs to the partitioned and formatted before it will be visible in "My Computer". In Windows, use "Disk Management" to perform these operations.
Thank you. Never had to do that in XP or vista if I remember right.

Soundy 06-19-2011 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 7480277)
Thank you. Never had to do that in XP or vista if I remember right.
Yes you did.

FerrariEnzo 06-19-2011 08:33 PM
Right "My Computer"
Click "Manage"

look under "Storage"
Disk Management.

if that doesnt work, look on WD website for a disk formatting app.
if all else fails, pop in a windows cd and do the format from the windows setup.

!MiKrofT 06-20-2011 02:22 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Manic! (Post 7480277)
Thank you. Never had to do that in XP or vista if I remember right.
You probably bought a drive that was preformated in the past hence these steps weren't necessary.


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