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Harddrive is detected but won't show up in disk drive

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January 2, 2014 9:53:55 AM

I recently finished building a computer and it is my third one so far and everything went well. I have a 60 gb SSD for my operating system but i also installed a 1tb Hard drive to store my video games and such but as i tried to make a backup image it wouldn't detect my hard drive i changed the cables and made sure i heard it spin up but again it would detect it as a storage device but when I went to my bios to see if it detected it i found out it did. My question is why won't my Hard drive show up as a storage device even if it is detected and I did make sure the drive was ok.

Specs:
Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM
A-Data S510 Series 60GB 2.5" SSD
Intel Core i5-3350P 3.1GHz Quad-Core
ASRock Z77 Extreme4 ATX LGA1155
Cooler Master 500W ATX12V
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

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a b G Storage
January 2, 2014 10:05:13 AM

Which HDD is not getting seen, the SSD or the HDD?
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January 2, 2014 10:05:43 AM

Did you create the partition in "Disk Management". ? Since you installed your OS on a SSD, the seagate hard drive won't appear on "My Computer" until you actually create a local disk drive
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a b G Storage
January 2, 2014 10:08:55 AM

If the drive is new it needs initialised and formatted in NTFS or FAT before you can access it.

- Open Start Menu
- Right-click on Computer
- Click Manage
- On the left hand side you should see Disk Management. It comes under the Storage header
- Once you open disk management Windows should ask if you want to initialise the Disk, press yes/ok.
- Down the bottom of the screen, right-click on your drive where it says Unallocated (should be black). Select new simple volume.

After that I can't remember exactly but basically press next a few times.

Disk Management should look something like this. In the image there are 4 hard drives connected.
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a b G Storage
January 2, 2014 10:10:47 AM

To create partition: Start>Control Panel>System And Security>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management and right-click on the unpartitioned disk and select New Basic Partition. Go through the wizard and create the partition.
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January 2, 2014 10:16:50 AM

jjs0891 said:
Did you create the partition in "Disk Management". ? Since you installed your OS on a SSD, the seagate hard drive won't appear on "My Computer" until you actually create a local disk drive


Thankyou i just completely forgot about this i am sorry. So thankyou for reminding me :-)
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April 29, 2014 7:00:09 AM

One problem with ssds not showing is a default setting in windows. Go to " folder Options, view button," uncheck the box that says " hide all empty drives. Then right below that is a place to check " show all hidden folder and drives. then reboot. then to disk management and you will see your drive.. it shoud ask to initialize it. Format option will also now show up.
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