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Seconday HDD shows in BIOS / Disk Mgr but can't access it (photos)

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  • Hard Drives
  • Device Manager
  • Storage
  • Boot
  • Seagate
  • BIOS
  • Sandisk
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March 11, 2014 11:58:41 AM

Good afternoon everyone. I recently built a PC using a SanDisk 128g SSD has the primary boot and a Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 as the secondary. The Seagate shows in the BIOS for the boot sequence. It also shows in device manager as a functioning device. But it doesn't show in My Computer and I can't seem to access it.

I have done the "Uncheck hide empty drives" process and it still doesn't show. Any other ideas?

Here are some photos of what it looks like in device manager and of the unchecked box.

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a c 106 G Storage
March 11, 2014 12:05:37 PM

Right click on Computer and then go to Manager. Then go to disk Management. In there you should see the disk. See if it has a Drive letter. If it doesn't then Right click on it (The part that will most likely have the blue bar across it) and click Change Drive Letter and Paths. Then give it a drive letter.

If that doesn't work then post some screen shots of your Disk management for us.
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March 11, 2014 12:11:41 PM

Wow I feel dumb for not trying that, thank you! It worked. I went into disk manager earlier and didn't see it up top in the list, but it was shown on the bottom with an unpopulated bar representing it.
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a c 106 G Storage
March 11, 2014 2:51:01 PM

Welcome!
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