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I recently purchased and WD 2tb to add to my 500gb. I installed everything correctly but I still do not know how to make them work as one hard drive. Is it even possible to make them do that? Sorry for the newbie question.
 
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ANY new empty HDD needs you to do some preparation before it can be used. These days, it is all done as one step called "Initializing" the HDD, using menu items available to you in a Windows tool, Disk Management. For details, read WyomingKnoptt's sticky here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265764-32-guide-installed-disk-system

and pay particular attention to his Step 5.

This will get you to having your new HDD show up in My computer so you can use it as an ADDITIONAL SEPARATE drive with its own letter name. However, if you are intent on making both your HDD's behave as ONE drive, you will need to do a bit more fiddling. Danny2000 has suggested the route for this. BUT be aware that, with most of these system to blend 2 drives into...
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ANY new empty HDD needs you to do some preparation before it can be used. These days, it is all done as one step called "Initializing" the HDD, using menu items available to you in a Windows tool, Disk Management. For details, read WyomingKnoptt's sticky here:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/265764-32-guide-installed-disk-system

and pay particular attention to his Step 5.

This will get you to having your new HDD show up in My computer so you can use it as an ADDITIONAL SEPARATE drive with its own letter name. However, if you are intent on making both your HDD's behave as ONE drive, you will need to do a bit more fiddling. Danny2000 has suggested the route for this. BUT be aware that, with most of these system to blend 2 drives into one, it is VERY difficult to undo that later, or to recover from a failure of ONE of the two units in the blend. Keeping them separate is safer and simpler.
 
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