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06-19-2011, 06:42 PM
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| 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?
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06-19-2011, 06:49 PM
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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.
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06-19-2011, 06:52 PM
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Originally Posted by John  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.
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06-19-2011, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Manic! Thank you. Never had to do that in XP or vista if I remember right. | Yes you did.
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06-19-2011, 08:33 PM
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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.
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06-20-2011, 02:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Manic! 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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