New internal hard drive not recognized in task manager

TyJax

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May 21, 2013
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I recently installed a second hard drive (yes - my computer has two physically separate hard drives). I can see the new drive in drive management but I see it or access it from my task manager. Any ideas?
 

mbreslin1954

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Go to Start-->Run-->diskmgmt.msc (run diskmgmt.msc, this will bring up the Disk Management tool).

See what you need to do there, you will have to create a partition and give it a drive letter, which you can do in dskmgmt.msc. You may even have to initialize the disk first, but you will certainly have to create a partition on it, give it a drive letter, then format it as NTFS.
 

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