New Build - Unable to Add Drive Letter to My HDD

Guest · Jul 28, 2013

Hi Guys, I just built my first PC and all in seems to be going well. Windows 7 is installed on my SSD and drivers from the mobo and GPU disks have been installed.

One oversight, I did not disconnect the HDD prior to installing from disk on the SSD. Now the HDD doesn't show up in My Computer.

However, looking at the Disk Management I can see the SSD properly partitioned and I can clearly see the HDD, in the number 2 position blank and unnamed.

Despite this, when I right click on the HDD I do not get the option to 'Change Drive Letter and Paths'.

Is this problem likely to require a full re install of Windows, or could there possibly a simpler answer?

USAFRet · Jul 28, 2013

Right click, and what options do you see?

(not having the HDD installed when you installed Windows was the right way to proceed)

lonewolf7 · Jul 28, 2013

Is it an old HDD from another PC or is it newly bought HDD ? You can try this, by unplugging the SSD which leaves only HDD, format it, and partition it with a bootable media. Then plug back the SSD. You don't need to reinstall windows. See how it works.

Guest · Jul 29, 2013

Hi guys, thanks for the quick response and sorry for the late reply.

@USAFRet
When I right click the HDD I get the following options:

"New Simple Volume"
"New Spanned Volume" (Greyed out)
"New Stripped Volume" (Greyed out)
"Properties"
"Help"

When I right clicked on the SSD to check a whole load more options appeared, including "Change Drive Letter and Path".

@lonewolf7
The HDD is brand new.

If I unplug the SSD, effectively leaving the system without an OS, what does the process of formatting the HDD involve? Presumably this is done through the BIOS? Also what sort of bootable media should I use to partition it? I'm quite new to this

USAFRet · Jul 29, 2013

Hi guys, thanks for the quick response and sorry for the late reply.

@USAFRet
When I right click the HDD I get the following options:

"New Simple Volume"
"New Spanned Volume" (Greyed out)
"New Stripped Volume" (Greyed out)
"Properties"
"Help"

When I right clicked on the SSD to check a whole load more options appeared, including "Change Drive Letter and Path".

@lonewolf7
The HDD is brand new.

If I unplug the SSD, effectively leaving the system without an OS, what does the process of formatting the HDD involve? Presumably this is done through the BIOS? Also what sort of bootable media should I use to partition it? I'm quite new to this

'New Simple Volume' is what you select. Then you should be able to assign it a drive letter.

lonewolf7 · Jul 29, 2013

1. Unplug the SSD.

2. Enter BIOS and make the HDD as first boot device in boot order menu. ( it will automatically detect the HDD as first boot device if not do as described)

3. Put a bootable media(DVD/USB) on ODD and restart the PC, upon restarting it will give you a message "Press any key to boot from CD/DVD" press any key. It will start loading.

4. Follow the onscreen dialogues. At the drive partition menu, partition the drive, no need to install OS. Then exit.

5. Shut down the PC. Plug in the SSD. You are done. Restart PC.

Guest · Jul 29, 2013

USAFRet :

That did it, the drive needed partitioning and formatting before it would work...who knew!

lol

Thanks both of you for taking the time to help!

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