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Title: Hard drive help
Post by: ebfd11 on March 14, 2015, 01:55:16 PM

OK i have my new system and I have one tiny problem...
I have a 1TB WD hard drive ...plus my SSD... When I go into bios it is recognized ... when i go into the system and device manager it shows up... but when i go to the computer to store things there... it isnt there... what do I need to do to rectify this situation?????

Lawndart

Title: Re: Hard drive help
Post by: Bizman on March 14, 2015, 02:03:30 PM

Have you formatted it in Windows? Diskmanager is your friend, Run (windows-flag + r)-> diskmgmt.msc is the shortest way to get there in case you don't know how.

Title: Re: Hard drive help
Post by: ebfd11 on March 14, 2015, 03:54:41 PM

BizMan can you say that in dummy ?? LOL

Title: Re: Hard drive help
Post by: Bizman on March 14, 2015, 04:49:28 PM

Try this: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ss/format-hard-drive-windows-7-tutorial.htm (http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ss/format-hard-drive-windows-7-tutorial.htm). Caution: When I looked at the page, I had to refresh the page after clicking the "next page" button.

Microsoft's advice: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=windows-7 (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=windows-7)

Hope those help.  :salute