I just got a new hard drive to install my games on and it isn't coming up in my computer what should i do?

BlatmatticJR

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I just got a 1 TB WD hard drive to go along with my 500gb version. I installed it in my computer fine and when I booted it I went to the Bios and it showed up and when I got into windows it installed the device software a it does but it dosen't come up in my computer.
What should I do and thanks for any help.
 
Solution
A brand new internal hard drive has to be partitioned and formatted before Windows can assign a drive letter to it and write data to it. You can do that in Disk Management where the drive should be shown as "Unallocated Space".

Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

Find the drive in the bottom-right panel (unallocated space).
Right click and choose "New Simple Volume".

When that's been created (only takes a few seconds), right-click on it and choose "Format" (takes considerably longer than volume creation).
A brand new internal hard drive has to be partitioned and formatted before Windows can assign a drive letter to it and write data to it. You can do that in Disk Management where the drive should be shown as "Unallocated Space".

Control Panel > Admin Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

Find the drive in the bottom-right panel (unallocated space).
Right click and choose "New Simple Volume".

When that's been created (only takes a few seconds), right-click on it and choose "Format" (takes considerably longer than volume creation).
 
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